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NATO HAS DECLARED WAR ON RUSSIA! According to Russian FM Lavrov

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Once I saw the story about the urgent meeting of ALL US Generals and Admirals for next week I knew the decision to go to war with Russia directly has been made. Prayed up and prepped up, time is short!

Poland to shoot down Russian Missiles

Hegseth to meet with ALL GENERALS

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Russia and the Collective West: The Global Politics of the Cold War 1.0/2.0

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Russia as the phoenix in global politics

After the end of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia became a less popular area of study and dealing with in comparison to before the end of the Cold War (1949‒1991). In the West, it was believed that after 1991, Russia was simply “finished” as Moscow was no longer the capital of a great power state (of the USSR) which had an important influence in global politics and international relations after WWII. In other words, the Western policymakers thought that after 1991, Russia would remain irrelevant as both economic and political power in global politics, and, therefore, for instance, many universities’ studies programs on Russia in the USA and Western Europe were either canceled or downsized under the explanation that studying Russia was no longer important for international relations (IR) and global security.   

However, all of those who shared an opinion that Russia was “irrelevant” in global politics and international relations since the end of the Cold War realized at least from the 2008 Russo-Georgian War[i] onward their fatal mistake of judgment. Russia is “back,” and subsequently, Washington and Brussels declared a new Cold War (2.0) on Russia in 2008[ii] as they clearly understood that Russia is back as a military, economic, and political great power. In other words, the Collective West, especially (and led by) the USA, made a critical experiment of provoking Russia on the international stage, and they received a very clear answer. The second fatal experiment of challenging Russia was on the soil of the (Soviet) Ukraine from 2014 to 2022, when reborn post-Cold War 1.0 Russia accepted the thrown “white glove” in February 2022 by launching a Special Military Operation (SMO) against the Russofrenic neo-Nazi political regime in Kiev, directly politically, logistically, financially, and militarily supported by the Collective West since the 2014 EuroMaidan’s cup.   

Russia, as a country with tremendous energy resources, nuclear power, educated and talented people, simply cannot be ignored in global politics by the Collective West, as was the practice in the years from 1991 to 2008. It became true especially from the very point of fact that Russia has been actively since 2008 pursuing its own national interests and security policy near its borders (within the space of the ex-USSR). Nevertheless, it became totally wrong to believe that the post-Cold War Russia was going to be an adversary to the American “New World Order”, as reborn Russia after 2000 clearly shows to be a respectful Eurasian global power with national interests and aspirations of her own to be both acknowledged and respected. It was finally proven by the start of the Russian Special Military Operation on the territory of Eastern (Soviet) Ukraine populated by the Russian speakers in February 2022. This operation, at the same time, clearly showed the Global West that Russia once again (after the dissolution of the Soviet Union) became a member of the top global powers in global politics and, therefore, its influence in IR cannot be ignored anymore.      

Transformation of post-Soviet Russia into a Great Power

It is a historical law that each state changes with time. However, only a few states experience such dramatic change during the short period of time as Russia has over the last 30+ years. In other words, Russia has changed as a state, nation, and military power, followed by its fluctuating position in global politics and international relations. From 1991 to today, Russia has transformed peacefully and rapidly its entire political and economic system, which is a relatively rare example in history. When the USSR dissolved in 1991, Russia was left to be one of its 15 constituent republics, which proclaimed independence forced to substantially redefine its role in global politics. The 1990s were very painful for Russia’s position in international relations as the country’s foreign policy was, in fact, supervised and directed by Washington and Brussels as the case of NATO aggression on Serbia and Montenegro in 1999, for instance, clearly showed but since 2008 Russia’s foreign policy once again became an independent and gradually returning the country to the club of the Great Powers.  

The importance of Russia´s influence in the world in the arena of global politics is based on the fundamental fact that Russia is one of the strongest international actors that is determining the global political agenda. It means that Russia is once again a member of the Great Power club as „a great power state is a state deemed to rank amongst the most powerful in a hierarchical state-system“.[iii] Russia, in this respect, surely fits the conventionally accepted academic criteria that define a Great Power:

  1. A Great Power state is in the first rank of military capacity.
  2. A Great Power state has the capacity to maintain its own security and to influence other states on how to behave.
  3. A Great Power state is economically powerful, although this is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for membership in the Great Power club (the cases of Japan or Germany are the best illustrations of this claim).
  4. A Great Power state has global but not only regional spheres of national interest and action.
  5. A Great Power state is running a „forward“ foreign policy and, therefore, it has a real but not only potential influence on international relations and global (world) politics.[iv]
  6. A Great Power is a state (at least according to the 18th-century concept) that could not be conquered even by the combined might of other Great Powers.[v]

Russia surely belongs today to the club of key global powers having powerful nuclear weapons, a growing economy, and prospective economic capacities, being one of the leading BRICS members. However, what is most important and different to others, Russia possesses almost endless natural resources (many of them are probably still even not discovered). For instance, in September 2025, the Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that Russia has reserves of coal for the next one thousand years. From a geopolitical viewpoint, Russia is occupying the crucial segment of the Heartland – the focal geopolitical part of the world.[vi] Russia, with its rich history and national traditions, is today in the process of defining its new political role in the current century. Behind Russia’s policies, there is a comprehensible strategy based on a firm vision of the contemporary world and the protection of the Russian national interests.  

The six factors of Russian power in IR

A contemporary history of Russia starts after the dissolution of the USSR by Mikhail Gorbachev (according to the agreement with Ronald Reagan in Reykjavík in October 1986),[vii] which marked at the same time the beginning of the political and economic turmoil in the 1990s, when Russia under Boris Yeltsin and his pro-Western liberals was a puppet state of the Collective West. However, the country gradually emerged from the period of instability since 2000 mainly due to the well-combined six factors, which a new administration of President Vladimir Putin skilfully exploited to the full extent:

  1. Substantial mineral resources, particularly of oil, gas, and coal.
  2. Significant military power, based on the second greatest nuclear potential in the world.
  3. Relatively well-educated, productive segment of the population.
  4. A high-quality scientific and technological base that survived in several industries.
  5. Permanent membership in the UNSC, the G8, and the G20.
  6. Important political and economic influence on the territory of the former Soviet Union.                                     

It is predicted that Russia will remain in the future as one of the focal and strongest international actors on the same or above level of influence, together with the US, EU, China, and rising Islamic cultures, especially Iran and Turkey. Russia’s natural resources and capabilities may allow it to follow an independent line in foreign policy and security national interests, both in the post-Soviet regions and in some key areas of the world: Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East. Predictably, however, Moscow’s interests will inevitably clash with those of other major actors – especially the US and its European clients. That is for sure that world order in international relations is going to continue to function according to World Systems Theory: a variant of structuralism that conceptualizes world order as being structured into 1) A rich and developed core, 2) Poor and underdeveloped periphery, and 3) A number of intermediary or semi-peripheral states. Russia is going to improve its own position within the first (leading) group, which includes all Great Powers who are hopefully (after the 2025 meeting of the Shangai Cooperation Organization-SCO) going to govern international relations and global politics according to the principle of Balance of Power which refers to a mechanism whereby Great Power’s states collaborate with each other in order to maintain their interests against threats from those who would seek systemic dominance.

Why study and respect Russia?

There are at least four focal and most important reasons for both studying and respecting Russia’s importance in global politics and international relations today:

  1. Geopolitical position and the size of the country: Russia is the largest country in the world, stretching over 17 million sq. km and covering 11 time zones. Russia borders the Baltic Sea in the west, the Black Sea and Caspian Sea (in fact, the lake) in the south, the Arctic Ocean in the north, and the Pacific Ocean in the east. Russia is both a European and Asian country, which, in fact, occupies the crucial geopolitical position in the world – the core of the Heartland. Russia shares borders with six NATO member states (Poland, Norway, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland, and Latvia), faces a seventh one across the Black Sea (Turkey), and is geographically separated by only 85,30 km wide Bering Strait from the USA (also a member of NATO). Russia borders 16 internationally recognized states, which is the largest number of neighbors that one country has in the world. A geopolitical factor of Russia can be shortly understood if we know that anything that is happening on the territory of Eurasia from Central Europe to Japan is affecting to a certain extent Russia and, therefore, Moscow has to react by some means to that.[viii]
  2. Regional power: Russia is surely a regional power within the perimeter of Heartland, which is striving to realize its own political, economic, national, and security interests. Russia, after 2000, succeeded in developing its own independent policies toward other states, including NATO and the EU’s members. The “problems” with Russia in global politics and international relations started when, since 2008, Russia’s foreign policy did not in many segments correspond with the strategic interests of the USA and its European and other clients of NATO and the EU. To the full level of dissatisfaction by Washington and Brussels, Russia maintains friendly relations with the three main American enemies and competitors – North Korea, China, and Iran. The most “problematic” issue of Russian foreign policy in the region for Washington is the fact that Moscow is continuing its efforts to build multi-state economic and political coalitions with neighboring countries, including super-powerful China, followed by rising powers of Iran and India. Russia, China, and India are already members of the international bloc, the BRICS, together with Brazil and South Africa as founders, followed by newly accepted member states.[ix] The Collective West finally 2008 recognized Russia’s claim to have “privileged interests” within the post-Soviet territories, except in those countries that joined the EU and NATO before (the Baltic States).[x]       
  3. Military power: With the total dissatisfaction by the Pentagon and Brussels, Russia still even during overwhelming economic, financial, and other sanctions by the Collective West introduced since 2022, remains a very strong military state with stable economic growth, respectful military and nuclear capacity, and developing potentials which are keeping it as one of the Great Powers (even a Super Power) in global politics. It is quite understandable that even after Cold War 1.0, when bare American imperialism received its full expression at least till 2008, Moscow continues with its security policy based on the priority of having strong military capacities. Historically, for the Russian authorities is quite clear that after NATO’s establishment in 1949, Russia’s survival, independence, and sovereignty depended only on its military power, especially the nuclear one.[xi] Russia (at that time the USSR) started to produce nuclear weapons in 1949 when the US created its imperialistic military bloc of Western puppet states and reached nuclear parity with the US at the beginning of the 1970s. Russia is today maintaining a nuclear arsenal and delivery systems that are comparable to the arsenal of the US.[xii] Unfortunately, due to the US’ policy of open gangsterism in international relations after the end of the Cold War 1.0, the so-called Western liberal democracies (the EU and NATO) are still an enemy to both Russia’s and global security and, therefore, one of the most important tasks for the near future in global politics has to be the creation of new reliable policies of common security based on justice, democracy, and friendship – a kind of multilateral global politics or at least the international relations founded on the form of the balancing power among the Great Powers.  
  4. Economic power: Russia remains a global economic power with a growing economy index higher than many Western countries, having a population of some 142 million, which makes it one of the ten most populous states in the world. Her GDP per annum is selecting Russia among the world’s top 10 economies. In 2007, the private sector, with 5 million private enterprises, contributed 65% of Russia’s GDP. Although an economic slowdown is possible, Russia is most likely to continue with its economic growth in the near future, regardless of the harsh economic and other sanctions imposed by the Collective West since 2022 onward. The main source of revenue (80%) is the exploitation of natural resources (and selling them to the world market), followed by a wide range of different industries. The most important Russian export of natural resources is oil, gas, coal, timber, and metals. We have to keep in mind that, for instance, Russia has 23% of the total world’s forested land[xiii] and is in the 8th place in the world according to the oil reserves (the first is Venezuela). After 2000, Russia became as well as one of the biggest world’s energy suppliers and the exporter of weapons (among the top 3). The potential economic power of Russia comes from the fact that this country possesses vast reserves of natural resources on its territory, for example, 30% of global gas reserves. The country is quite near to the Arctic’s gas and oil reserves, a large but still unexplored source of energy, which is probably going to be mainly under Russian exploitation in the future. It is not so difficult to claim that energy resources are going to be the focal reason for the conflicts in international relations.        

Current reality of Russo-Western relations in IR

Questions about the nature of Russia’s political and economic systems and Russia’s policy after 2000 are of crucial importance in understanding its place in both Eurasia and the world (BRICS+), and assessing the prospects for dealing with some of the focal challenges to regional and global security. The policymakers of the Collective West understood this truth only after Russia’s military intervention in the Caucasus in August 2008, which was intended to clearly demonstrate that further incorporation of areas of special interest to Moscow into the Western client zone was totally unacceptable. What the same Western policymakers also understood was that this intervention was a clear counterpunch to Western-sponsored Kosovo’s proclamation of “independence” in February of the same year. 

Russia is a leading political subject, a strong economic and military power, a rich energy producer and supplier, an extremely important player in global politics, which is still building its position in the post-Cold War 1.0 era (that, in fact, is already the era of the Cold War 2.0). Russia is and is going to be for a long period of time in the future both one of the crucial players in international relations and one of the most important decision-makers in global politics. However, up to 2022, Russia’s post-Cold War 1.0 geopolitics was forced to be accommodated to the behavior of NATO.[xiv] Nevertheless, since February 2022, when the SMO of Russia started, in fact, against the Collective Western Russofrenic imperialism, on the territory of the Soviet (Greater) Ukraine, NATO and the rest of the Collective West are forced to accommodate their politics on the global arena to the Russian behaviour.

Personal disclaimer: The author writes for this publication in a private capacity, which is unrepresentative of anyone or any organization except for his own personal views. Nothing written by the author should ever be conflated with the editorial views or official positions of any other media outlet or institution. 

Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirovic

Ex-University Professor

Research Fellow at Centre for Geostrategic Studies

Belgrade, Serbia

© Vladislav B. Sotirovic 2025

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Endnotes:

[i] On this war, at least from the Western perspective, see in [Roger E. Kanet (ed.), Russian Foreign Policy in the 21st Century, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 101−178].

[ii] Edward Lucas, The New Cold War: Putin’s Russia and the Threat to the West, London‒New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

[iii] Andrew Heywood, Global Politics, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 7.

[iv] About world politics, see in [Jeffrey Haynes et al, World Politics, New York: Routledge, 2013].

[v] Richard W. Mansbach, Karsten L. Taylor, Introduction to Global Politics, Second Edition, London−New York: Routledge, 2012, 578.

[vi] About geography and history, see in [Halford John Mackinder, “The Geographical Pivot of History”, The Geographical Journal, 23, 1904, 421−437; Pascal Venier, „The Geographical Pivot of History and Early 20th Century Geopolitical Culture“, Geographical Journal, 170 (4), 2004, 330−336].

[vii] About R. Reagan and M. Gorbachev’s relations, see in [Jack F. Matlock Jr., Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended, New York, Random House, 2005].

[viii] On Eurasia and Great Powers, see in [Roger E. Kanet, Maria Raquel Freire (eds.), Key Players and Regional Dynamics in Eurasia: The Return of the Great Game, Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010].

[ix] The BRICS is an acronym first used by the investment firm Goldman Sachs in 2003 (as the BRIC). Taking their rapid economic development, Goldman Sachs predicted that these economies are going to be wealthier by 2050 than the world’s current economic powers.

[x] About the foreign policy of Russia in the 21st century from the Western perspective, see in [Robert Legvold (ed.), Russian Foreign Policy in the 21st Century and the Shadow of the Past, New York: Columbia University Press, 2007; Roger E. Kanet (ed.), Russian Foreign Policy in the 21st Century, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011].

[xi] About this issue, see in [Richard Pipes, Survival is not Enough: Soviet Realities and America’s Future, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984].

[xii] Robert Legvold, “The Russian File: How to Move Toward a Strategic Partnership”, Foreign Affairs, July/August 2009, 78−93.

[xiii] World Resource Institute: http://www.globalforestwatch.org/english/russia (2009).

[xiv] About the post-Cold War 1.0 geopolitics of Russia, see in [Срђан Перишић, Нова геополитика Русије, Београд: Медија центар „Одбрана“, 2015]. About the new Cold War 2.0, see in [Robert Legvold, Return to Cold War, Cambridge, UK−Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2016].

Some Books, Videos and Blogs I Recommend

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As I was studying and researching over the weekend I came across some great materials I’d like to share with you guys.

First up is Patrick Lancaster’s video where he speaks with a Russian soldier, a commander who seems like an old soul and from a family of military service. He says that WW3 has already begun and that Russia will eventually need to take the fight to NATO as they will never leave Russia alone until they do. He is correct. If only he knew about the Chabad forces behind the scenes that are manipulating the enmity between Slavic nations who should be brothers.

Then there’s this interview with Dr. William Schnoebelen that blew my mind! Talk about spiritual warfare on another level this guy has been through quite a bit including being a Satanist who made a “deal with the devil” and signed the black book and who eventually became a vampire! Oh you thought that was just the movies? Think again! I think you’ll find this interview fascinating as well as informative especially when it comes to the spiritual war, the war we are fighting in right now! Here is the Dr.’s YouTube Channel as well.

I also just finished a book entitled “Waking the Lion Within, Reclaiming Your Position in Christ”. It goes a long way explaining why Christians have no power in their prayers and how and why the roles of men and women got messed up. It also contains prayers you can use in spiritual warfare and cast out the demons that are afflicting you! When we learn to develop a real relationship with the Lord being able to hear from Him every day and to be directed and feel His presence your life will be forever changed. Amazon Affiliates Link

That’s all for now, I pray that you find these videos, books and links helpful in your walk with the Lord. Stand firm in the faith and be strong in the Lord and His might!

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Ukraine’s Romanian-Moldovan Flank Might Soon Be Used By NATO Against Russia

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It can invade Transnistria, occupy neighboring Odessa, and threaten nearby Crimea from there.

Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) warned in mid-July that “NATO Is Turning Moldova Into A New Military Ram Against Russia”. Airfields are being modernized, the railway gauge is being switched to the European one to facilitate military logistics, and warehouses are being built to store equipment. If NATO helps President Maia Sandu’s party win late September’s next (already unfree) parliamentary elections, SVR warned, she promised that they’ll annul Moldova’s constitutional neutrality.

TASS’ interview with Russian Ambassador to Moldova Oleg Ozerov, which can be read here, describes this overall process more in detail. For geographic reasons, NATO’s militarization of Moldova and the West’s “Ukrainization” of it that Ozerov talked about in his interview follow them doing the same in Romania, which Russian Ambassador Vladimir Lipaev elaborated on here in his recent interview with RIA. He importantly drew attention to its hosting of what’ll soon be NATO’s largest airbase in Europe.

Coupled with the bloc’s modernization of constitutionally “neutral in name only” Moldova’s airfields, the combined effect is that NATO might soon be preparing to use Ukraine’s southwestern flank against Russia, which could take one of three non-mutually exclusive forms. These are invading Moldova’s separatist region of Transnistria that hosts ~1,000-1,500 Russian troops, occupying neighboring Odessa (whether port and/or region) to preempt its potential capture by Russia, and threatening nearby Crimea.

The following background briefings detail the lead-up to these preparations that SVR just warned about:

* 4 April 2024: “Romania’s Draft Law On Dispatching Troops To Protect Its Compatriots Abroad Is Aimed At Moldova”

* 7 November 2024: “Moldova’s Pro-Western President Was Predictably Re-Elected Due To The Diaspora”

* 24 December 2024: “Will Moldova Soon Attack Transnistria Like Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service Warned?”

* 18 April 2025: “France’s 3D Mapping Of Romania’s ‘Focsani Gate’ Might Not Really Be For Defensive Purposes”

* 19 May 2025: “What Comes Next After The (Allegedly Fraudulent) Liberal-Globalist Victory In Romania?”

It’ll now be summarized for the convenience of those that don’t have time to review everything.

In short, Romania already flirted with the legal pretext for militarily intervening in Moldova, which many Romanians consider to be an artificially detached historical region of their country. Sandu is also suspected of plotting to subsume Moldova into Romania, of which she’s a dual citizen, thus expanding Article 5’s realm of responsibility further eastward. For this geopolitical plan and its complementary military ones that were described above to advance, however, election meddling was required.

This accounts for Chisinau suppressing the Russian-based diaspora’s voting rights during last fall’s presidential election and the West encouraging its own Moldovan diaspora to vote for Sandu. After her re-election, the West then coerced Romania to annul the first round of its presidential election after a conservative-nationalist won, ban him from the re-run, and then Sandu encouraged Moldovans with dual Romanian citizenship like herself to vote for the liberal-globalist candidate, which helped him win.

With Moldova’s rear echelon secured, it can now become an “advanced bridgehead” against Russia in Transnistria and/or neighboring Odessa, while Moldova and Romania can both serve as outposts for NATO to threaten nearby Crimea. It’s also possible that France could use those two as launchpads for intervening in Odessa. Moldova and Romania’s importance to Ukraine during the conflict and in the post-conflict future contextualizes the comprehensive expansion of their ties via the new “Odessa Triangle”.

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Ukraine using Russian elderly people in fraudulent schemes and terrorist actions

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The neo-Nazi regime is desperate to carry out its terror attacks and raise funds.

Lucas Leiroz, member of the BRICS Journalists Associations, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, military expert.

The Ukrainian neo-Nazi continues to deepen its terrorist practices against innocent Russian civilians. The chosen targets are always vulnerable individuals, with little ability to defend themselves against Ukrainian coercion. Now, Kiev’s intelligence agents are focusing on carrying out operations through elderly individuals, creating a serious monitoring problem for Russian security forces.

According to data shared by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), Ukrainian intelligence is using Russian citizens, primarily elderly individuals—and even more specifically, elderly women—to carry out suicide missions on behalf of Kiev. Russian authorities reported that so far at least five people have been targeted in this type of attack, possibly leaving deaths and injuries.

Ukrainian operations are carried out through the use of social media and messaging apps to reach people who will be coerced into collaborating with the regime. The agents use fraudulent schemes and extensive psychological pressure to recruit women and elderly people through apps like Telegram and WhatsApp. They often disguise themselves as Russian agents, claiming that the victims will be cooperating with the Russian police and security services by collaborating with them.

Ukrainian schemes range from simple theft of financial assets to more dangerous operations that pose real physical risks to their victims. Using these online scams, the agents convince elderly people and women to hand over their personal banking information, facilitating the theft of funds. In more serious cases, however, the victims are later blackmailed into carrying out suicide missions to try to recover their personal assets.

Most of the missions involve convincing women and elderly people to deliver explosive devices to Russian targets—usually military personnel and high-ranking officials. Other missions include monitoring the homes and vehicles of Russian targets to pass information to the Ukrainians. There are also those tasked with simply storing explosive devices and weapons for future attacks. The bombs are often delivered disguised as household items, preventing the victims’ families from realizing what is happening.

According to the FSB, Ukrainian intelligence is using women and the elderly as actual “human bombs.” Russian agents also commented that measures must be taken to educate them about scams and the risks of being drawn into criminal or terrorist activities. As well known, during a conflict situation, women and the elderly are among the most vulnerable groups, many of them anxious for the safety of their children and husbands who are on the front lines. This situation of worry and anxiety makes them psychologically easier targets for enemy intelligence services to deceive.

Any type of operation involving fraud and blackmail against these individuals is extremely negative and dangerous. Even when the victims are not directly involved in the assassination of their targets, they can be killed or injured by improperly storing explosives. Or they may simply end up being mistakenly neutralized during a Russian counter-terrorist tactical operation. In the least dangerous scenario, they simply lose their financial assets, which is also extremely damaging, as it takes away their livelihood.

This is not the first time the Kiev regime has demonstrated involvement in such operations. It must be emphasized that, in addition to being anti-humanitarian and completely illegal practices under international law, these Ukrainian operations also reveal clear signs of desperation.

The regime is exhausting its tactical capabilities, lacking the ability to truly penetrate behind Russian lines, which is why it must use vulnerable local groups to carry out these crimes. Furthermore, there is the financial factor, with Kiev’s economic collapse becoming evident from the moment the regime’s intelligence service uses fraudulent schemes to raise funds.

Russia is expected to react to this news by acting on three fronts: toughening counterintelligence operations to eliminate enemy activity on Russian territory (which will certainly occur in combination with military operations targeting decision-making centers in Ukraine); expanding educational activities and psychological support for vulnerable groups in Russia; and finally, strengthening digital sovereignty and security policies.

Apps like WhatsApp and Telegram have failed to meet Russia’s security requirements. They are expected to face serious restrictions in the near future in the country. Russia is also working to create a messaging app similar to China’s WeChat, which is part of a set of cyber sovereignty and security policies being implemented by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s countries. The goal is to reduce fraudulent and extremist use of social media.

In practice, it’s once again clear that Ukraine’s actions demonstrate the regime’s desperation. While Russia has sufficient means to respond to the terror imposed by the enemy, Kiev increasingly appears to be running out of options for action against the Russians.

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Editors Note: These kinds of stories make my blood boil as they’re taking advantage of women and the elderly, two groups that us men are supposed to defend. Sadly the Russian men are out fighting on the front which leaves the women and elderly have been left to find for themselves. Proverbs 24:11 comes to mind when I see things like this being done to the weakest in our society. Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter.

War always harms the innocent and the weakest in society the most. War is hell. Come soon Lord Jesus!

Johnny

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Paris wants to worsen its tensions with Russia and expand towards the Arctic.

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Monday, July 14, 2025

Lucas Leiroz, member of the BRICS Journalists Association, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, military expert.

France is expanding its ambitions into Russia’s zone of direct strategic interest. One of the areas of greatest interest is the Arctic, where Paris, like other NATO member states, is beginning efforts to challenge Moscow’s regional hegemony. This could be a dangerous step and further accelerate the escalation between Russia and the West.

The narrative of a “Russian threat” has been a central focus of Macron’s foreign policy, which has become increasingly aggressive toward Moscow. In a recent statement, Macron said that Russia poses a threat not only to France, but also to all of Europe – from the Caucasus to the Arctic, in his words.

This type of discourse is perfectly in line with recent French international maneuvers in regions of Russian interest. In the Caucasus, France controls the pro-EU Armenian government while trying to influence Georgia to turn against Russia. In the Arctic, Paris still has an incipient strategic policy, but it appears to be following the same path of escalation and tension.

According to recent updates to the French Ministry of Defense’s Arctic Strategy, Paris must adapt its stance in the region, shifting from viewing the Arctic as a neutral and peaceful zone to treating it as a tense and contested area. This decision is based on recent discoveries of natural resource reserves – which have increased due to melting glaciers – and the creation of new trade routes – primarily between emerging nations, such as the Northern Sea Route.

The strategy emphasizes France’s role as a major global player, asserting that the country must be engaged in security-related initiatives in various parts of the world. The Arctic’s energy potential becomes a factor of particular interest to France, which could use the Arctic reserves to try to solve the sanction-generated energy supply crisis in Europe. This issue is viewed with particular attention by French strategists, as Paris insists on its role as Europe’s “de facto leader,” justifying its irresponsible international attitudes with the alleged need to “help” EU member countries.

The French Ministry of Defense’s document on the Arctic defines three priority guidelines to advance Paris’s interests in the region: maintaining a relevant diplomatic position to assist in Arctic governance; concluding new bilateral and multilateral agreements with other Western Arctic countries; and developing military technologies suitable for the “protection” of the Arctic – which is expected to be achieved through massive NATO support. Furthermore, Paris announced an investment in the Arctic space sector, stating that this is a necessary step to respond to the security and environmental challenges.

It’s important to emphasize that Macron’s target in the Arctic isn’t just Russia. Recently, Macron further exposed his Arctic ambitions during his official visit to Greenland. In June, he visited the Danish-controlled island to express support and solidarity with the region amid Donald Trump’s push for Greenland’s annexation by the US. Furthermore, Macron also expressed interest in leading joint military exercises of European countries in the Arctic through Greenlandic territory, with the aim of “protecting Danish sovereignty” in that region.

In fact, France is relying on international institutions to promote a “multilateral expansionism” in the Arctic. The EU and NATO have served as platforms for the French government to implement the plans established in its Arctic strategy. Russia is a common enemy of both organizations, so “confronting the Russian threat” is an excuse for any kind of aggressive and expansionist policy in the Arctic.

However, differences between the EU and the US have also worsened in recent months due to Trump’s inauguration. The Republicans’ foreign policy is completely contrary to the EU’s interests, just as the US president’s harassment of Greenlanders to leave Denmark is seen as a “threat” in Europe. Macron is trying to project France as a “leading” country in Europe, which is why he is now endorsing Denmark against the US on the Greenland issue. But he will hardly achieve fruitful results in this regard if he continues to use NATO as a multilateral mechanism, considering that Washington has historically led NATO.

Another reason for Macron’s expansion into the Arctic is his adherence to the globalist political agendas, particularly on climate and environmental matters. “Concern” over melting glaciers and changes in the Arctic environment allegedly motivates France to expand its presence in the region, even though it lacks legitimate geographic access to the Arctic. This extraterritorial stance, if combined with political or military intentions, could have serious consequences.

For Russia, the situation is clear: joint, multilateral efforts to preserve the Arctic are welcome. Moscow works intensively on the sustainable exploration of the region and the promotion of scientific research and other forms of peaceful occupation of the Arctic. However, the sovereignty of Russia’s Arctic territories and its military presence in the region cannot be challenged by the West.

If NATO’s military maneuvers in the Arctic continue to escalate, one possibility is that tensions and skirmishes with the Russians will arise in the future. In this confrontation, the Russians, with their fleet of icebreakers and their entire Arctic military fortress, would have an absolute advantage. For the West, the best course of action is to simply de-escalate before the situation gets out of hand.

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Trump threatens Russia with tariffs and boosts US weapons for Ukraine

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Lindsay Graham and the other neocon war mongers were making the rounds of the Sunday talk shows where they were absolutely gleeful that Trump wanted to start getting tough with Russia.

“For months, President Trump has tried to entice [Russian President Vladimir] Putin to the peace table. He’s put tariffs against countries that allow fentanyl to come in our country, other bad behavior — he’s left the door open regarding Russia. That door is about to close,” Graham said on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.”

Graham outlined that he and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat who also appeared Sunday on “Face the Nation,” are leading 85 cosponsors on a sanctions bill that he said would make a “sledgehammer available to President Trump to go after Putin’s economy and all those countries who prop up the Putin war machine.”

The South Carolina Republican explained that countries like China, India and Brazil buy oil and other goods from Russia, saying “that’s the money Putin uses to prosecute the war.” Graham said the sanctions package would give the president the ability to impose 500% tariffs on any country that helps Russia. And he noted that the president would have the discretion to dial the tariffs up or down, giving him “maximum flexibility.”

“We’re going after the people who keep Putin in business, and additional sanctions on Russia itself,” Graham said. “This is truly a sledgehammer available to President Trump to end this war.”

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German Major General Freuding announces that Germany delivers long-range missiles to Ukraine for deep strikes into Russia

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I would expect Russia to strike Germany after these missiles are used against them. The next escalation of the war in Europe is coming soon.

Oh and lets not forget about China and Taiwan as the US is demanding that their allies declare what they will do if China invades Taiwan.

Breaking News! The Pentagon is urging Japan and Australia to clarify what role they would play if the U.S. and China went to war over Taiwan – The Financial Times

Looks like the US is preparing for another major war.

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Ukraine Transformed into an “Underdeveloped Country”: Why Did BlackRock Suddenly Give Up on Zelensky and the Kiev Regime

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Nobody wants to sink billions of dollars into an endemically corrupt mafia state run by Neo-Nazi goons in the middle of an unwinnable war with a military superpower nextdoor.

Guest Post by Drago Bosnic, Reposted with permission by globalresearch.ca.

When the NATO-orchestrated Ukrainian conflict started in 2014, American and multinational conglomerates rushed to ensure they got their “piece of the pie” in the unfortunate country. In around a decade or so, the Kiev regime changed laws and enabled the total or near-total takeover of every remotely valuable asset built by generations in the Soviet Union. While the socialist superstate certainly had its flaws, the legacy it left in former Ukraine has never been matched by any government since the latter’s “independence” in 1991.

Namely, while the country had a massive industrial sector until then and a population of 52 million, mostly well-educated and working in various specialist fields (Soviet Ukraine was a scientific and industrial powerhouse no less than Russia itself), after 1991, all this collapsed for good.

By the early 1990s, relatively prosperous Ukraine turned into an underdeveloped country with only a fraction of its Soviet-era scientific and industrial potential, selling mostly agricultural products and essentially serving as a cheap resource for the political West’s brutal (neo)colonial exploitation. By the mid-2010s, NATO fully hijacked the unfortunate country and turned it over to the Neo-Nazi junta that’s now effectively conducting genocide against Ukrainians themselves. Namely, the demographic collapse is so catastrophic that it’s highly likely there’s only half of Ukraine’s 1991 population in the country at this point. The suicidal war with Russia (its closest kin) continues, while the United States is now openly demanding whatever’s left of Ukrainian resources (with even this lost to Russian all-out advance across the frontlines).

In fact, the situation is so bad that the infamous BlackRock, the world’s most exploitative (neo)colonial conglomerate, has actually given up on NATO-occupied Ukraine. According to Bloomberg, it suspended work on “a multibillion-dollar Ukraine recovery fund”, supposedly following President Donald Trump’s election win. Apparently, this prompted France to work on a replacement deal, with initial support from Germany, Poland and Italy. The report, published on July 5, further states that BlackRock ceased all efforts to “search for institutional investors in January”, effectively ending the planned $500 million fund that was intended to be secured from various Western governments, development grants and investment banks. In turn, another $2 billion from other private investors was also lost after they withdrew.

The report also points out that the investment stopped due to “a lack of interest amid perceived uncertainty in Ukraine”. In other words, nobody wants to sink billions of dollars into an endemically corrupt mafia state run by Neo-Nazi goons in the middle of an unwinnable war with a military superpower nextdoor. Truly shocking. However, jokes aside, it doesn’t take an economic expert to understand that the most basic logic implies that nobody remotely sane would make that kind of investment. Worse yet, the notion of “perceived uncertainty” is even more laughable. Namely, as previously mentioned, the Russian military is now advancing on multiple fronts, meaning that this “uncertainty” is not a matter of perception, but an objective reality that any thinking investor would take into account.

The Bloomberg report further states that the investment fund was scheduled to be unveiled at the “Ukraine Recovery Conference” on July 10-11 in Rome. A BlackRock spokesperson said that the conglomerate “completed advisory work for the recovery fund pro bono in 2024, but no longer has any active mandate”. Worse yet, although France promised to “step up”, it seems this is also falling through. Citing “people familiar with the matter” Bloomberg reports that “it remains uncertain how effective the plan will be without American backing”. In other words, investors from the European Union are just as skeptical as their US counterparts, which tends to happen when people are getting their information from sources other than the mainstream propaganda machine which still insists that the Kiev regime is “defeating Russia”.

Numerous independent authors from around the world (particularly at InfoBRICS), have been reporting that the so-called minerals deal that the Trump administration was trying to push for since it came to power would fall through. We repeatedly argued that the minerals promised by the Neo-Nazi junta weren’t even under its control, while areas with any known resources lack the mining industry to support extraction.

It would take years and tens (if not hundreds) of billions in investment just to establish it. In other words, the investors would need to give lots of money to the losing side. Expectedly, such business deals are wholly unattractive to people who don’t like losing massive financial assets. The Kiev regime tried to do everything in its power (effectively selling the entire country) to change their opinions, but to no avail.

For instance, the Neo-Nazi junta frontman Volodymyr Zelensky pompously announced his $1 trillion “reconstruction plan” years ago, even promising each corporation what can only be described as free rei(g)n in oblasts (regions) they invested in. The results have been catastrophic for NATO-occupied Ukraine, with around 30% of its arable land handed over to (neo)colonialists.

In addition, cheap Ukrainian agricultural products flooded European markets (after they were initially promised to starving Africans and for which Russia was blamed by the mainstream propaganda machine), resulting in massive protests by farmers across the “old continent” as their market share collapsed virtually overnight. However, even this turned out to be a bad investment, particularly after the Russian military entered the Dnepropetrovsk oblast.

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Peace In Ukraine Won’t End The West’s Hybrid War On Russia

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Their refined Hybrid War model will involve efforts to win the “tech race”, a new Western division of labor for containing Russia in Europe, and AI-generated anti-Russian infowars.

Russia’s natural resource wealth and new role in accelerating multipolar processes incentivize the West to continue its Hybrid War on Russia even in the event of peace in Ukraine. The US’ neoconservative policymaking faction and the EU’s liberal-globalists (essentially one and the same at this point) continue to perceive Russia as an enduring rival to contain and ideally dismember. That’s why they’re expected to refine their ongoing Hybrid War on Russia in the coming future through the following three means.

The first involves their efforts to win the “tech race”, specifically in terms of AI and the Internet of Things, which they envisage will enable them to lead the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” (4IR). The consequent economic and military edge that they anticipate is supposed to “leave Russia in the dust” as they see it. They believe that economic and then political instability will eventually follow in Russia. This could take the form of Color Revolutions, renewed terrorist insurgencies, and/or uncontrollable elite infighting.

The second aspect concerns the West’s division of labor in containing Russia. The US will “Lead From Behind” by providing back-end support for its European junior partners as it prioritizes containing China. Meanwhile, the UK wants a sphere of influence in the Arctic-Baltic, Germany just in the Baltic, Poland in Central & Eastern Europe, and France in Romania-Moldova. The EU’s associated €800 billion “ReArm Europe Plan”, which will likely lead to social spending cuts, is being spun as a ‘defense of democracy’.

And finally, the last element of the West’s refined Hybrid War on Russia will focus on AI-generated anti-Russian infowars, both to demoralize Russians and boost morale among Westerners. They’ll write entire articles, control more realistic bots on social media, create lifelike videos, and ultimately masquerade as policy experts and average folks alike. Years of secretly scraping Mainstream Media, Alt-Media, social media (including non-Western platforms), and YouTube for data will make these fakes very convincing.

For as compelling as these plans may be, they won’t destabilize Russia. Its economy has already proven itself remarkably resilient and China can help it catch up to the West in the tech race. As for conventional Western military threats, Russia’s military-industrial production far surpasses NATO’s, while Russia’s effective “Democratic Security” policies have preemptively neutralized infowar threats. The end result will be that Europe becomes more subordinate to the US without either of them subordinating Russia.

The West’s plans could also backfire. The European public might embrace populist-nationalists who promise to restore social spending levels by cutting newly planned military spending. Even if they’re kept out of power through Romanian-like machinations, that would be at the expense of further discrediting the myth of “Western democracy”, which might fuel an even greater public trust crisis. At the very least, standards of living will stagnate or even decline, and Europe might thus be the one “left in the dust”.

The West’s refined Hybrid War on Russia that’s expected to follow peace in Ukraine, whenever that might come and regardless of the terms, is inevitable due to how deeply embedded neoconservatives and liberal-globalists are in its decision-making ecosystem. Even the best-case scenario of Trump coercing Zelensky into Putin’s demanded concessions and then Russia and the US agreeing to a resource-centric strategic partnership can’t avert this. Russia is ready, however, so this will all be for naught.

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