European bureaucrats are predictably failing to understand the seriousness of the upcoming energy shock, as they are not taking any steps to mitigate it or correct past mistakes, Russian presidential special representative for investment and economic cooperation with foreign countries and CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund Kirill Dmitriev wrote this on his page…

Let me begin by offering my apology to all who posted comments that were then put in moderation — by the software, not by me. I just returned home from Calgary and am in the process of cleaning up the pending folder. I have not deleted any comments… They all are now posted. The reason for…

The world is waking up to a terrifying reality: the United States government is no longer content with merely manipulating the price of gold and silver on the COMEX. It is now waging a full-spectrum war to control the physical metal itself. The recent “technical halts” and price smashes on the CME were not isolated…

Four years ago, Russia’s decision to launch a military operation in Ukraine stunned almost everyone, including supporters and critics alike. Few believed Moscow would take such a drastic step. For decades, the prevailing assumption in global politics had been that force was no longer a legitimate way to resolve disputes. When military action did occur,…

State Secretariat for Swiss Security Policy’s 2026 strategy document (SSEKS): “Growing social polarization and loss of trust in state institutions can weaken Switzerland’s resilience and its ability to respond to crises.” (…) Former Swiss Army Chief Thomas Süssli posed a question: “In the new world order, being rich and weak is not an advantage.” A…

The Annihilation of the NATO Surface Fleet 18:00 ZULU – THE INCURSION The order came from Norfolk, Virginia, via satellite relay. Admiral Henk Brinkman of the Royal Netherlands Navy, commanding NATO’s Standing Maritime Group 1, read the flash traffic on his secure tablet. Execute Operation Northern Safeguard. Effective immediately// The plan was simple in concept,…

By: Christopher Maffei “The U.S.-Israel relationship persists through inertia and domestic politics, not strategic logic. It represents nostalgia for an American-dominated world order that no longer exists.” The strategic relationship between the United States and Israel has been rendered completely obsolete by a single, decisive factor: Russia’s preeminent military dominance through advanced hypersonic weapon systems.…

Subtitle: The Obsolescence of the MIM-104 Patriot and the PAC-3 MSE interceptors 13 FEBRUARY 2029 — SWISS PLATEAU, CANTON OF FRIBOURG The AN/MPQ-65 radar at Mount Vully had tracked the launch precisely. Three thousand kilometers east-northeast, a road-mobile Transporter Erector Launcher had risen from the tree line near Krichev-6 Aerodrome at 06:13:03. Nineteen seconds later,…

The year 2026 ought to be remembered as the moment the old pretenses finally collapsed—when spheres of influence, long denied in polite company, reasserted themselves, and the lingering afterglow of colonial empire began, at last, to dim. Above all, we are witnessing a reversion to an older grammar of international conduct: rules once familiar, now…

By: Christopher Maffei The cockpit was a cathedral of focused calm. The Weapon Systems Officers were strapped into their aft stations. Outside their small windows, the world had dissolved into a uniform, luminous white—a pure and silent abyss. They were on the ILS, and the Instrument Landing System’s needles were almost centered. The routine of…

By Christopher Maffei Movement I: The Grunt’s Gospel According to Private First Class Ricky “Green” Malone, 101st Airborne Division July 1st, 1970. 0642 hours. Thua Thien Province, The morning mist wasn’t clinging; it was suffocating, a wet, woolen shroud shoved down the throat of the A Shau Valley no less than two thousand feet below.…

Kapustin Yar, Astrakhan Oblast. 03:47 Local Time. The command was not spoken. A one-time cryptographic packet was injected into a secure fiber-optic line that bypassed even the General Staff. In the Strategic Rocket Forces’ command Operation Center, Colonel Pavel Voronin watched as the authentication glyphs flashed green on his screen. The order bore the highest…

Ah, the American Dream. A land of opportunity, where any man can pull himself up by his bootstraps, provided his bootstrap-pulling transactions don’t trigger a hidden algorithm deep in the bowels of the banks’ AI mainframe, flagging him as a “person of interest” to a squad of risk-averse bureaucrats with the power to vanish his…

DATELINE: SOME GODFORSAKEN FESTERING SORE ON THE MAP CALLED DĨ AN BASE CAMP, OCTOBER 1971… The air in the hooch wasn’t air. It was a condition—a foul, breathing paste of mildew, dried buffalo shit, stale beer, and the ever-present cloying reek of DEET and sweat… the smell of a war that had gone rancid, left too…

The confluence of revolutionary weapons technology and American strategic myopia has not merely dated the Atlantic security architecture; it has weaponized it into an instrument of profound, self-inflicted vulnerability. A clear-eyed audit of the strategic landscape, drawing from both adversarial doctrine and internal Western disillusionment, renders a verdict of gross negligence against United States policy.…

If you had told me years ago that we would live to witness the undisputed heavyweight champion of military alliances, NATO, standing by—essentially paralyzed—while its primary adversary carved out an entirely new theater of operations right under its nose, I wouldn’t have believed you. Yet, that is precisely the reality we are waking up to…

The precarious relationship between sovereign debt, military expansion, and existential national crisis finds stark expression in two historical epochs: Nazi Germany’s rearmament in the 1930s and the contemporary United States’ fiscal-military posture. By examining Germany’s use of MEFO bills to secretly finance rearmament and the subsequent drive to war for economic survival, and contrasting it…

The “rules-based order” is dead and Washington now acts without boundaries A year has passed since November 2024, when Donald Trump won the US presidential election for the second time. And it makes more sense to start the clock there, rather than on Inauguration Day. The political and psychological shift began immediately. From that moment,…

The President thinks we have the best missiles in the world. The truth is far different: our missiles do not work. “We have the super-fast missiles — tremendous number of the super-fast. We call them ‘super-fast,’ where they’re four, five, six, and even seven times faster than an ordinary missile. We need that because, again,…

Ted Postol: “Ukraine’s attacks on radars that are part of Russia’s nuclear early warning system put us on the brink of disaster. The problem is that unlike the Americans, Moscow does not have a capable space-based warning system. The Poseidon underwater robot with the largest nuclear warhead ever built was apparently approved by Vladimir Putin…

Christopher Maffei: Replacing one bad idea with another When the Marine Corps adopted a concept called Force Design as its new warfighting concept in 2019, so called military experts hailed it as a groundbreaking adoption of emerging technology. Unfortunately, most of the praise has come from senior Marine leaders in the form of Press releases…

Many now speak of humanity’s drift towards World War III, imagining events similar to those of the 20th century. But war evolves. It will not begin with a June 1941 Barbarossa-style invasion or a Cuban Missile Crisis-style nuclear standoff. In fact, the new world war is already underway – it’s just that not everyone has…

Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb has crossed the threshold when it comes to triggering a Russian nuclear response. How Russia and the United States respond could determine the fate of the world. In 2012, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared that “The nuclear weapons remain the most important guarantee of Russia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and play a…

Hector is tricked into combat and killed beneath Troy’s city walls. Trump might well heed the moral to The Iliad story. Last year in St Petersburg, I asked the question: Will the West come out of its cultural war as a more amenable potential partner? Or will the West disaggregate, and resort to bellicosity in an effort to hold…

I am being asked if the issuance by the dreadful Biden regime of a new package of sanctions against Russian oil exports are a gift to the incoming Trump presidency or a poisoned chalice. My answer is neither. The sanctions, if the incoming Trump regime leaves them in place, are a poisoned chalice for the…

In the end, the election was about despair. Despair over futures that evaporated with deindustrialization. Despair over the loss of 30 million jobs in mass layoffs. Despair over austerity programs and the funneling of wealth upwards into the hands of rapacious oligarchs. Despair over a liberal class that refuses to acknowledge the suffering it orchestrated…

In a recent interview I was asked who would win the American presidential election.  In the US the definition of a “win” can easily be a Democrat theft. Over the many decades during which in former times Democrats represented the working class, the Democrats gained political control of the cities in which the working class resided.  This…

Centuries ago a boy was born. His parents understood that he had a remarkable fate before him which reflected the Will of the Great Shaman. His hair was light, his eyes were light green, and his skin was pale. It seemed obvious that he enjoyed divine favour. But then, one day, the boy’s father –…

While the rest of the world builds a multi-polar future and tries to promote a lasting, respectful and cooperative peace, in Europe, Parliament is babbling about war. The deception has been there from the start When the European Union as a political institution was established on 1 November 1993 with the Maastricht Treaty, following the…

INTERVIEW TO UKRAINA.RU Sergei A. Karaganov, Professor Emeritus, Dr. hab. in History, Academic Supervisor of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics, speaks in an exclusive interview with Ukraina.ru Question—What are your impressions from the discussion with Vladimir Putin on the nuclear issue at a SPIEF panel session? Sergei—Unfortunately, the time was…

Sen. Kamala Harris is rising in the polls after dramatically confronting former Vice President Joe Biden during the Democratic primary debate about his opposition to federally mandated busing for desegregation. The following week, however, Harris backed away from saying that busing should always be federally mandated, calling it just one “tool that is in the toolbox” for…

I had just written an ordinary article about several elections, including that of the coming US spectacle this fall—of which I remain characteristically dismissive. Then, on Saturday, all hell broke loose in Pennsylvania. I still stand by my previous observations, which are appended hereto. But something changed at Trump’s ill-fated rally. I’m unsure if trying…

Given the unstable situation in the U.S., it is worth analyzing the possible impacts of geopolitical changes on American foreign policy. Amid the elections and rising domestic social tensions, the future of the U.S. appears extremely uncertain – largely because American strategists have not yet properly understood the nature of the new world order. The…

On June 12th, the Russian frigate Admiral Gorshkov steams through the clear waters off the Cuban coast; she is accompanied by the Kazan (a Yassen). And they are not alone, most likely in the North, the Orel (an Oscar) has been quietly hovering in deep water off the Atlantic Coast with her sister ship the…

The core issues at the heart of release of hostages held in Gaza were two: A complete cessation to the war and full withdrawal of all Israeli forces. Netanyahu’s position was that whatever the hostage outcome, the IDF would return to Gaza and that the war there might continue for ten years, he said. These…

Strategic stability is usually understood as the absence of incentives for a nuclear-armed power to launch a massive first strike. Typically, it’s viewed primarily in military-technical terms. The reasons why an attack may be contemplated are usually not taken into account. This idea emerged in the middle of the last century, when the USSR had…

Growing Threat Russia and its leadership seem to be facing a difficult choice. It becomes increasingly clear that a clash with the West cannot end even if we win a partial or even a crushing victory in Ukraine. It will be a really partial victory if we liberate four regions. It will be a slightly…

Sian state started to exist as a centralized state in 862. This is considered to be the year of creation of the Russian state because this year the townspeople of Novgorod (a city in the North-West of the country) invited Rurik, a Varangian prince from Scandinavia, to reign. In 1862, Russia celebrated the 1000th anniversary…

Paul Craig Roberts, Chairman of the Institute for Political Economy, a PhD in Economics and US Undersecretary of Treasury in the Reagan administration, By Paul Craig Roberts: American politics is in crisis. The evidence is overwhelming that Biden was not elected but was put into the presidency via a stolen election, and the evidence is…

As the Caspian Summer turns into late Autumn, a low-hanging mist obscures a cratered landscape from a Russian drone orbiting over the steppes of Zaporizhzhia. Underneath the smoke and fog, lay thousands of burnt-out bullet-ridden wrecks. A graveyard, where the bodies of tens of thousands of Ukrainian Infantry lay strewn across the Battlefield. On these “Bloodlands”,…

Vladimir Putin’s meeting with Kim Jong Un is one of the major turning points in world history. From this moment forward, American sanctions are no more relevant than its disintegrating cities. In many ways, this gigantic American foreign policy disaster has no equal in American history. And after this meeting between Russia and North Korea there is…

Will the Russian Nuclear Arsenal Function? As of late, this seems to be one of the most misplaced questions of our time. Therefore the question is, ‘Will the enemy’s nuclear arsenal operate as designed and is it a legitimate threat and will the warheads detonate?’ First, to understand this critical question you need to have good…

The notion of UFOs has been floating around Washington for some time. This has also been coupled with the idea that the United States has reverse-engineered this technology and it will be ready for use at some undetermined date. And guess what? Apparently that time has come. We now have a group of whistleblowers that seem to…

Subtext: The Specter of Franco’s Spain in Vilnius It was a hot summer in Lithuania when the aircraft started to arrive in Vilnius. Shortly after arrival, the dignitaries of the totalitarian theater started to parade off the small jets as if they were heading to a stage set for Fidelio. Of course, this was the…

It was a warm summer morning in Berlin when Jens sat down to eat breakfast. He sat down calmly, ignoring the humanity around him and after politely eating his small portion of millet and potato puffs; he stood up and went to his entourage to get the latest information on Ukraine. Today he was giving a speech…

Subtext: Lets Pretend Russia Did It In a combined arms conflict on this level, it’s typical for retreating forces to blow up dams to slow the advancing enemy. In this case, we know who blew up the dam because Ukraine said — we are planning to do the deed. It is public knowledge, the Ukrainian…

The remnants of the Ukrainian 23rd and 31st mechanized brigades (in separate combined units) have regrouped and renewed their attacks in Donetsk and Zaporozhye. The Ukrainian infantry, some only in their teens and with no combat experience, were repelled with heavy losses on the line of contact. Including, eight burned out German Leopards, that were…

Subtext: The Myth of Russian Military Incompetence — Continued… To start with, the use of gas, nuclear weapons, and the mass bombing of cities such as the bombing of Dresden, (and) the carpet bombing of North Vietnam is a concept known as ‘total war’ or the concept of ‘total politics’. This warfare was reintroduced in the Napoleonic period and…

This ridiculous story jumped out at me the moment it became ‘a thing’ in the mainstream media. In my time, I have heard and seen a lot of horseshit. However, the outright audacity of this claim deserves a righteous takedown as well as an examination of the need for people to believe — the lie. To start…

Aside from the drug war being the single largest policy failure in American history. We are once again, watching lawmakers try and breathe life back into a disastrous policy that will probably have no end. To start with, the Washington Jackals in this realm have only two priorities. First, saving the American World Reserve Currency…

Subtext: One Long Creeping Coup.. From the American Government’s censorship of the internet to the hammering of freedom of speech. Many are starting to get the idea that Congress is nothing more than window dressing and the American Supreme Court is paid just to stir up trouble. In fact, many must be getting the feeling…

Subtext: The Counterinsurgency Collapse American Counterinsurgency in a Nutshell The father of modern intelligence work is Colonel Frank Kitson. He wrote two books: Low-Intensity Operations and Gangs and Counter-Gangs. These books are the bibles for counterinsurgency. To start with, we need to begin with a very brief history of American intelligence operations. In this way,…

The Acrimonious Acronyms Wallop the American Elections The Collapse of American Journalism Typically when stories of any significance are broken by American journalist; they start in the New York Times and Washington Post. From this starting point these pieces are commentated by cable news. And as these (things) cycle through cable news, they are then…

Just when you think NATO humiliation has reached a crescendo. The Leopard tank barn burning has taken NATO to new heights in propaganda and deception. In many ways, we have all been asked to swallow endless amounts of anti-Russian propaganda from the dumbshits in Washington. The real problem regarding anti-Russian propaganda is that real-world defense…

The Nuclear Option? There is No Such Option By: Christopher Maffei Recently, Peter Zaihan was a guest on the Joe Rogan show. And as a typical Russophobic apostle, he started off by speaking about the Russian president in a mocking effeminate tone. Moreover, as a consultant for the Department of Defense, he wasted no time…

Russia Needs to be Careful of the Scope of Their Victory By: Christopher Maffei In a recent interview, EU Commission Chief von der Leyen, estimated that more than 120,000 Ukrainian men had been killed in action during the combined arms battles between both the northern and southern flanks of Kharkiv and Kherson. And adding to the catastrophic…

To start with, we need to thank Matt Taibbi’s journalism. Because of his work, we now know that the distortion of American reality that we have all been feeling to one degree or another has been born out through the―Twitter Files. And thanks to Matt’s research, we now know that the FBI has been grossly…

The War That is Sadly Ending in a Nuclear Conflict By: Christopher Maffei Being that I live in St. Petersburg for a portion of the year, I had the opportunity to interview a source within the Wagner Group about the conflict in Ukraine. This is the first in a series of interviews that will conclude…

The American Delegation to the G20 Was Sent Walking Empty-Handed By: Christopher Maffei In many ways, the G20 used to be the sanctuary for the typical Whac-a-Mole politicians that were moving up in the American empire. And over time, the G20 could even be a route for American officials to browbeat, berate, blackmail, sanction, and…

By: Christopher Maffei Russia’s brilliant military strategy will go down in the annals of war for years to come. Both as a political and economic defeat for the Western powers. And when looking objectively at the SMO, Russia has accomplished everything that it set out to do and more. At the start of the campaign, the…

By: Christopher Maffei In September, at the United Nations, the “Machiavellian Madman” (Biden) opined his typical platitudes and threats to an indifferent audience. And much like his Philadelphia speech. I could not help but think, that his threats seemed to be veiled in a passive dementia that comes and goes on (Q) — especially depending…

In September 2022, Admiral Charles Richard at the Association’s Air and Space Conference said, “All of us in this room are back in the business of contemplating a direct armed conflict with a nuclear-capable peer…this is no longer theoretical ” he quipped. Admiral Charles Richard is the 11th commander of STRATCOM. Since 1982 Richard has…

By: Christopher Maffei I would like to start by saying, any open intelligence regarding the Kharkiv counteroffensive needs to be taken with a grain of salt. This is due to the distortion of information from the belligerents in question. If true, on 6 September 2022, Ukrainian forces launched a counteroffensive in the Kharkiv region with…

In May of 2013, Edward Snowden revealed an NSA program that gave clear evidence that 90% of the American people were under surveillance by the US government without justification or warrant. At the time, Jeff Moss, founder of the DEFCON hacker convention, asked NSA’s Keath Alexander, “… does the NSA really keep a file on everyone?,” Alexander…

By: Christopher Maffei Boris Johnson found himself in Ukraine… …Really? But, what the fuck, Boris Johnson would need to receive clearance from his Special Escort Group to even travel to Ukraine. Let’s assume by some miracle of administrative genius he moved Heaven and Earth and got authorization to travel to a bitterly contested combat zone…

“We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy’s side of the front is always propaganda, and what is said on our side of the front is truth and righteousness, the cause of humanity and a crusade for peace.” ―Walter Lippmann “The first casualty when war comes is Truth” ―U.S.…

By: Finian Cunningham The Western media narrative has no competitor. The media foghorns can blare all they want without hardly a dissenting voice tolerated, let alone heard. The apparent mass murder of civilians in Bucha and other locations in Ukraine has enraged Western public opinion against Russia. Russia is facing mounting accusations of genocide and…

By: Christopher Maffei At this moment, the United States is in a technical state of war with Russia. Therefore, the United States controls what you perceive as reality in the media. In Germany, this was called the omnipotent government or the total state. These systems of media control can be traced back to the ideas…

Managing the Empire of Lies By: Christopher Maffei Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Chris Hedges points out, “the American system is a judicial burlesque– that has the appearance of the rule of law” and “it will exploit until exhaustion or collapse.”  In the simplest of terms, America is not a democracy but a totalitarian dictatorship. The evidence…

The False Narratives’ Of Russian Aircraft Being Shot Down By: Christopher Maffei There is a deep need, as well as psychological desperation within western society for easy victories against the Russian army– this can be shown in art. In this (one of many) fake news clips, we can see a Ka-52 being shot down by…

By: Stephen Lendman Big Lies and mass deception define US/Western reporting on all things Russia and Ukraine. It’s been this way since the run-up to and after Russia’s special military operation began to demilitarize, deNazify and neutralize US-colonized Ukraine and its coup d’etat regime. According to NYT fake news — likely supplied by Pentagon and…

By: Alastair Crooke Today’s zeitgeist is that all politics is but a Manichaean tapestry of the ‘good’ and those who have failed to ‘decolonise’ from their past. The war taking place in Ukraine has been understood on one side — the wider western view — in terms of the secular expression of today’s western culture.…