Kankaroo @Kankaroo3

The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service reports that the Kiev regime has stepped up cooperation with Mexican drug cartels, increasing trafficking through the port of Odessa and providing infrastructure to flood Europe with more drugs. This has been a pretty fruitful relationship for years at this point, with cartels sending mercenaries and providing cash where needed, and the Ukrainians returning the favor with safe harbor for cartel operations, black market weapons and drone training. The SVR didn't name any specific cartels in the report but based on prior cooperation I would assume it's mainly the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.

His behavior is easy to predict and killing him would enable the next "leader", appointed via some extralegal procedure, to engage in overt dictatorial rule by decree, thus decreasing internal tensions (no more ukrops arresting each other for corruption whenever they disagree)

@FAILED_Nation @Sally09154623

6 days ago

@RWApodcast Brilliant. Yet Zelensky travels the world with impunity like a Carpetbagger. Please explain to me the upside to Russia keeping him a*I've. You, of all accounts here, should be able to decipher this.

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It may be brutal calculus, but, Russia obliterating the military-age male demographic of Ukraine means no chance of another NATO proxy war on Russia, staged in Ukraine, fought with Ukrainian fists, ever.

Olga Bazova @OlgaBazova

2 weeks ago

Mash reports that Ukraine has lost 2.4 million soldiers in the four years of the SMO, more than 400,000 of them in 2026. These figures were obtained by our hackers from the databases of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, TCC centers, Ukrainian medical organizations

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China's space station is so big it leaves shadows on the sun. 😉 Photo credit: Anthony Ayiomamitis, Athens, Greece, June 15th.

Precisely. NATO is not a defensive alliance. It is a self-sustaining engine of antagonism whose only fuel is the Russian threat…. real, exaggerated, or deliberately provoked. Every euro, every base, every exercise, every new member since 1991 has been extracted under the single imperative of keeping Moscow encircled and hostile. Remove that imperative and the entire structure collapses into irrelevance. There is no other mission, no other customer, no other justification for its existence. NATO is a closed theological loop!!! Russia must remain the indispensable devil so the tithes keep flowing to Brussels and the Pentagon. The alliance does not contain threats but it manufactures the conditions that guarantee their perpetual renewal. An empty shell cannot survive genuine peace. It can only survive by ensuring the enemy it was built to oppose never disappears. Now the mask is off. The machine is exposed. And empires built on manufactured enmity rarely outlive the moment their enemy calls the bluff.

Spirit of 1775 @Spiritof1775

2 weeks ago

@Vaporisor @crimson_skyz @ConciousLabRat Exactly all of NATO’s funding comes from opposition to Russia. It’s a military organization designed to antagonize Russia.

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While the Western psyop-machine is back to 2023-levels of hysterical "Crimea is Ukraine" mania, Russia spontaneously disassembles its umpteenth gas station. Ukraine uses fleets of civilian trucks to move drones around to launch positions, and if you can't fill 'em you can't drive 'em.

Spetsnaℤ 007 🇷🇺 @Alex_Oloyede2

a week ago

🇷🇺⚡Strike on a gas station used by the Ukrainian military in the Zaporozhye region.

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Former UK PM Lizz Truss says the British state is controlled by the same "permanent bureaucracy" regardless of who is appointed as prime minister. "[Andy Burnham is] going to find out that he's not running the country." "It's being run by the permanent bureaucracy, and they have an agenda, and they're going to pursue their agenda whatever." "We saw pretty much the same policies, really, under Sunak that we saw under Starmer. We're going to see the same policies under Burnham."

Do you think maybe… just hear me out here… maybe… just maybe… liberalism is completely out of ideas for how to govern Western societies and has already collapsed as a political ideology? 🤔

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Yes. But for almost a decade after Kosovo, even after NATO annexed the Baltics, Russia tried. Even after the color revolutions he kept seeking an accommodation. Even after the US began rapidly building up the Ukrainian army, he tried some more. They wanted everything.

Angelica 🌐⚛️🇹🇼🇨🇳🇺🇸 @AngelicaOung

2 weeks ago

This is just the lesson we have to learn over and over again. The rules-based international order is just some version of be our vassals or we will break you but with extra bullshit on top. The Russians were told « don’t worry about nato it’s a defensive alliance. » right after

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So, it’s tantamount to an Iranian victory. Probably the White House will point to dead Iranian leadership and the nuclear issue as totems of success. Probably the best case scenario on the whole, and much better than doubling down.

The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter

3 weeks ago

BREAKING: The US has released the full text of its 14-point "Memorandum of Understanding" with Iran. Key terms include: 1. The US, Iran, and their allies agree to immediately and permanently end military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon 2. The US and Iran agree

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BREAKING: The US has released the full text of its 14-point "Memorandum of Understanding" with Iran. Key terms include: 1. The US, Iran, and their allies agree to immediately and permanently end military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon 2. The US and Iran agree to respect each other's sovereignty and territorial integrity and not interfere in each other's internal affairs 3. The US and Iran commit to negotiating and reaching a final deal within 60 days, unless mutually extended 4. The US will begin removing its naval blockade immediately and fully end the blockade within 30 days 5. Iran will use its best efforts to ensure safe passage for commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz for 60 days with no charge 6. The US and regional partners will develop a mutually agreed plan of at least $300 billion for Iran's reconstruction and economic development 7. The US will work toward terminating all types of sanctions against Iran, including UN, IAEA, primary, and secondary sanctions 8. Iran reaffirms that it will not procure or develop nuclear weapons and agrees to address its enriched material stockpile under IAEA supervision 9. Until a final deal is reached, Iran will maintain the current status quo of its nuclear program, while the US will impose no new sanctions and deploy no additional forces 10. The US Treasury will issue waivers for Iranian crude oil, petroleum products, derivatives, and associated banking, insurance, and transportation services 11. The US will make frozen or restricted Iranian funds and assets fully available for use 12. The US and Iran will establish an executive mechanism to monitor implementation of the MOU and future compliance with the final deal 13. After signing the MOU and implementing key ceasefire, blockade, shipping, oil waiver, and asset-release provisions, the US and Iran will begin final deal negotiations 14. The final deal will be endorsed by a binding UN Security Council resolution The memorandum will trigger a 60-day window to negotiate a final deal.

Super interesting essay from @tphuang. He looks at the trans-Pacific AI race, starting with an overview of the hi-tech situation in China. I found this extremely informative, given my general ignorance about what's *really* going in in Chinese industry. Must read. Link next post.

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Russia destroyed a drone making factory, hidden inside a film studio. The snag is that the Ukrainian video, accusing Russia of savagery, unveiled an unfinished drone wing under the rubble. Laughing!

UK is a police state

Polymarket @Polymarket

3 weeks ago

JUST IN: UK Government clarifies adults will still be able to use social media by verifying their identities with digital IDs, facial recognition, passports and credit cards.

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Wow. Russian losses have fallen dramatically. This is the opposite of the pattern suggested by Western intelligence plants in the papers.

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Absorber the Geek @AbsorberTheGeek

4 weeks ago

@policytensor BBC/Mediazona study. The BBC ignores its own findings preferring instead to report the higher figures from the various propaganda outlets. 🤣 en.zona.media/article/2026/0…

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@ArmchairW Although I remain dubious that the Russian KIA total is as high as 190k, even if we assume that number, it confirms what I have long argued: the Ukraine War has produced the most disproportionate KIA ratio of any major war in modern times — at least 10:1, and more likely 15+:1.

A town in Siberia unveiled a war memorial late last year. Beyond commemorating the fallen, It gives us a rare insight into the Ukrainian War.⬇️ This memorial is located in Birsk, a small city in Bashkortostan located on the Belaya River more or less between the cities of Ufa and Izhevsk, and was opened on September 10th, 2025. It commemorates post-WWII Soviet and Russian war dead from the city and surrounding district of Birsk, which has a collective population of approximately 63,000. As of opening day the memorial featured three names from the Soviet-Afghan War, four names from Chechnya, and 188 names from the Ukrainian War, all listed with dates of birth and death. Bashkortostan has contributed a huge number of volunteers to the war effort and has, at least per publicly available data, suffered more casualties than any other Russian oblast - in fact more than the entire Moscow region despite having a fifth the population. Birsk has certainly contributed its share and suffered proportional losses. Critically, this is hard data on Russian casualties in Ukraine - curated by local citizens and geographically and temporally bounded. It's as good as it is possible to get. First of all, a sanity check. The Soviet Army was staffed by conscription whose burden was spread fairly evenly among the Soviet population, and it suffered approximately 15,000 fatal casualties in Afghanistan. Per the 1989 Soviet census, Birsk and the surrounding district had a population of approximately 54,000 in a country of some 286 million, which should have produced 2.83 fatalities from the district in Afghanistan. The wall features 3 names from that conflict. All good. The Russian Army of the 1990s was similarly staffed by conscription whose burden was spread somewhat less evenly among the Russian population, and it suffered approximately 10,000 fatal casualties in Chechnya. Per the 2002 Russian census the Russian Federation had a population of 145 million and Birsk and the surrounding district had a population of some 61,500 people. This should have produced 4.24 fatalities from the district in Chechnya. The wall features 4 names from that conflict. Checks out. The Russian Army of the 2020s is staffed on a volunteer basis with a highly uneven recruitment base. This is not unique to Russian society, it's simply a factor of who joins a volunteer army and why - San Francisco suffered forty times fewer casualties per capita in the GWOT than some rural districts of California, for instance. Similar dynamics are in play in Russia - rural districts like Birsk see significantly higher recruitment than urban centers like Ufa, let alone metropolitan centers like Moscow and Saint Petersburg. As such to draw conclusions about overall Russian losses we need to properly account for this. Mediazona runs a rather infamous casualty-tracking website that attempts to document Russian losses in Ukraine by name. I don't trust their data - otherwise I wouldn't be writing this lol - but I do think there's enough signal in their noise that their proportions can be relied upon for the purposes of this analysis. And of the approximately 9050 names Mediazona collected for Bashkortostan as of 10 September 2025, only 1900 are present from the major cities of the oblast - Ufa, Sterlitamak, Salavat, Beloretsk, and Neftekamsk, which collectively account for half the total population of the region, some two million people in total. The rest of the two million residents of Bashkortostan hail from rural or semi-rural districts like Birsk. Ergo, Mediazona is claiming that there are some 7150 personnel KIA from rural districts in that period. (Mediazona had approximately 9700 names for Bashkortostan as of present and about 9050 as of 10 September 2025; I checked their regional database yesterday which showed about 2050 casualties from those cities and scaled it to their overall count as of 10 September 2025 at 94%) Scaling off the 188 names in Birsk (pop. 63,000) to the entire rural oblast population of 2 million gives us an estimated rural KIA total of approximately 5,970 - 83% of Mediazona's claim of 7150 for that period. And bear in mind that this figure is both supportable by hard data collected by organizers and completely independent of the veracity or lack thereof of Mediazona's name list. Crudely scaled this would suggest the Russian Army has suffered approximately 190,000 KIA in Ukraine to date from Mediazona's claim of 225,000 KIA, although I suspect the actual number is quite a bit less than that because of "memorialization bias" - districts with heavy recruitment and thus heavy losses are logically going to be similarly quick to put up war memorials, in this case well before the end of combat.

“I don’t want war with Russia, and I don’t want to see in the EU a country where Nazis are honored” — French politician Nicolas Dupont-Aignan. •If Ukraine joins the EU, France will find itself at war with Russia. That is madness. If Ukraine joins the EU, it will ruin our farmers, and that too is madness. If Ukraine joins the EU, we will once again be spending billions. And we are going to admit a country whose president has not been re-elected, where there have been no elections for two years now, and where former Nazi collaborators are honored at state ceremonies. I do not want this. And I know that peace is possible. Trump wants peace with Putin. And France should want it too. •But does Putin want it? •Of course, he needs peace just as much as anyone else. 👍 Skabeeva in Max

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