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Geopolitics and Justice: Unveiling the Untold, While Advocating for a Just Peace in the World. Support our work: ko-fi.com/theislandernews
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Andrew Wolfe, National Guardsman who was shot in DC, is able to respond to questions

West Virginia Gov. said Wolfe was asked to give a thumbs up by a nurse and ‘he did respond’

‘We were told that he also wiggled his toes’

His mother is continuing to ask for prayers

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Zelensky will sign a ceasefire agreement by December 15 and announce his resignation on New Year's.

This was announced by Vladimir Petrov, who is considered one of Zelensky's leading political strategists.

I don't think the president will tell us this, but I thought Zelensky had decided to tell us all to go to hell. I'm not joking," Petrov said.


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‘Isn’t it time to send a European Witkoff to Moscow for direct negotiations?’

EU’s Kaja Kallas: *a fit of fake coughing*

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>Reject peace talks with Russia

>Complain when not invited to peace talks

>'Ukraine would definitely be much stronger' with us

Kaja Kallas perfectly represents the state of the European ‘powers’

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‘We speak regularly of the bravery of our service members, and we should, but we must also illuminate the bravery of those who walk beside them’ — Melania Trump sends a message to military families

‘Your lives require resilience that few outside the military can understand’

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No German chancellor in recent history has had such a low approval rating as Friedrich Merz, although he has been in power for less than a year. Three-quarters of citizens are dissatisfied with the chancellor's policies.

But such a likable, charismatic fellow...

And just to add to the overall festive spirit in Germany, several cities are refusing Christmas lighting in order to save money, writes Bild.
Dresden will not have festive illumination on Königstraße in the Baroque quarter. In Stuttgart, they have decided not to illuminate some sculptures. The authorities in Heidelberg have shifted the time when Christmas lights are turned on by several hours in order to save money.

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Melania Trump hands out care packages to military families at Joint Base Andrews

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Trump announces he’s ‘very satisfied with the results’ through ‘hard work’ in… Syria

‘The new President of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa, is working diligently to make sure good things happen, and that both Syria and Israel will have a long and prosperous relationship together’

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Netanyahu and Trump talk ‘expanding peace agreements’ in phone call

Call came IMMEDIATELY after Trump urged Israel not to ‘INTERFERE’ with Syria’s development

Reckon Bibi didn’t appreciate the advice?

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Crimea has always been Russian — Former US Congressman Flanagan tells RT's Rick Sanchez

Stresses that Khrushchev's administrative transfer to Ukraine 'for 10 minutes' doesn't change the fact

Donbass the same thing...even in 'squalor, they'd still tell you they're Russian'

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"Everyday life of a soldier."

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NATO’s top general has now crossed the line from deterrence into madness. Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone publicly floated the idea of “preventive action” against Russia, meaning pre‑emptive strikes on targets “where drones could be ready to be launched.” Europe isn’t defending itself. Europe is announcing that it is preparing for war, and ready to strike first. Thie is elite panic, the behavior of governments who fear their own people far more than they fear Moscow.

Because everyone in London, Paris, and Berlin knows the truth: the Ukraine project is dead. Washington wants an imperfect peace to save face. The Europeans, who bet their entire legitimacy on this war, are staring at humiliation on a civilizational scale. And rather than accept the defeat they engineered, they are trying to kick open the gates of escalation to delay their own political reckoning. This is what desperation looks like when it wears ornamental medals and uniforms, in lieu of actual power.

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs called Dragone’s remarks “an extremely irresponsible step,” accusing NATO of moving deeper into escalation. They’re right. When the alliance’s top military officer publicly discusses first‑strike logic against a nuclear superpower, it means Europe’s political class is out of strategic options and terrified of domestic consequences. They know what’s coming when this war finally ends: elections that will sweep them out, streets that boil with unrest, and populations that will demand answers for a decade of lies, economic ruin, and psychosis masquerading as delusion.

This is why they escalate. Not to beat Russia, they know they cannot, but to outrun the judgment building inside their own borders. Starmer stares at a Britain that is finished with fantasy. Macron hears the footsteps from the banlieues and the boulevards. German elites know their post‑industrial experiments have collapsed. Most European capitals are ruled by a class that has run out of legitimacy, out of narratives, and out of time.

So they gamble the only thing they have left, the continent itself. If that means suggesting preemptive strikes on Russia, something that would have been unthinkable a decade ago, they will do it. If that means drowning Eastern Europe in fire to postpone political collapse in Western Europe, they will do it.

NATO’s latest rhetoric isn’t strategy, but the death rattle of a political class that knows its time is up.

Because they know Russia has already won the war: the war of endurance, the war of industrial capacity, the war of political coherence. Europe is fragmented, exhausted, economically gutted, and socially a powder keg. Russia, by contrast, is consolidated, mobilized, and completely prepared to answer escalation.

And here is the final truth the European elite cannot say out loud: if they turn the continent into a battlefield, they will not survive the aftermath. Not politically. Not historically. And perhaps not physically. The reckoning won’t come from Russia. It will come from the Europeans they betrayed, the people they used as economic hostages, as cannon fodder, as pawns in a geopolitical psychosis that collapsed in front of the whole world.

And this is how NATO dies, not in a blaze of battlefield glory, but as a casualty of Europe’s own rabid hysteria. Not from Russian missiles, but from the self-inflicted wounds of moral decay, strategic incoherence, and suicidal escalation. Washington sees it too. What began as a security alliance has become an ecisto liability, a European powder keg disguised as a partner. Even protection rackets know when to cut loose the client that can’t stop lighting matches.

When this ends, Dragone’s words will not be remembered as strategic resolve. They will be remembered as the panicked confession of an empire drowning in its own failures, a warning flare fired by a ruling class that senses that its final enemy is not Moscow, but the citizens waiting just outside the palace gates.

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