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This is how wars are prolonged in the 21st century. Not with declarations. Not with parliamentary votes. But with anonymous intelligence leaks, laundered through Mockingbird media, timed precisely to suffocate diplomacy before it can breathe.
Reuters is a case in point, laundering intel narratives as journalism. It selected the most escalation-friendly interpretation available and wrapped it in the authority of anonymity — six sources “familiar with U.S. intelligence,” one citing a most-recent report from late September, to claim that Vladimir Putin intends not only to seize all of Ukraine, but to "reclaim" parts of Europe. This was not analysis. It was a threat narrative: maximal, apocalyptic, and conveniently untestable. The kind that turns negotiation into appeasement and restraint into treason. The kind that boxes the elected leaders into war without ever asking the public.
That specificity matters. Anonymous intelligence leaks are not neutral artifacts, they are policy instruments. They shape public emotion, narrow political horizons, and manufacture inevitability. Once a population is convinced that continental war is pre-programmed, diplomacy becomes illegitimate by definition. That is how peace is killed without debate.
This pattern is not unique to one newsroom. It is systemic and by design. Across the Western media ecosystem, escalation narratives are routinely laundered through anonymity, authority, and urgency, creating a closed loop in which fear generates headlines, headlines manufacture consent, and consent generates policy momentum that no single elected official appears able to stop. Reuters is not the disease. It is a symptom of a larger architecture that rewards alarm and punishes restraint. Again, all by design.
This is precisely why the response from the sitting U.S. Director of National Intelligence matters.
Gabbard did not hedge. She accused Reuters of pushing “lies and propaganda” on behalf of warmongers, warned that such narratives are being used to “foment hysteria and fear” to block peace, and stated, that they're using intelligence briefings delivered to lawmakers, that Russia seeks to avoid a larger war with Europe and does not possess the desire to conquer all of Ukraine, let alone Europe.
That phrasing is crucial, because it is Reuters’ own reporting of what she said. The contradiction is devastating: the same intelligence community being anonymously cited to inflate the threat is, according to its own Director, delivering a far more restrained assessment behind closed doors.
This exposes the fraud at the heart of the escalation narrative. Even if one assumes Russia’s objectives in Ukraine are maximalist, it does not follow—logically, militarily, or materially, that Russia intends to wage a continental war against NATO Europe. That leap is not intelligence analysis. It is psychological conditioning.
After years of attritional warfare, Russia controls a little more than one-fifth of Ukrainian territory. That reality does not support fantasies of armored divisions rolling toward Paris or Berlin. To insist otherwise is to substitute fear for facts, which is precisely how war is sold.
Now place this alongside Gabbard’s public remarks at the TPUSA Summit, where she stated:
“The deep state is fighting us every step of the way, and it exists within every single federal agency.”
That sentence is not rhetorical. It is a description of institutional behavior. Bureaucracies whose budgets, prestige, and careers depend on permanent confrontation do not quietly accept peace. They resist it, by leaking selectively and out of context, reframing assessments, delaying negotiations, and redefining threats until escalation appears not only necessary, but moral.
But this is where discernment matters, because survival depends on discernment, not vibes. Is Gabbard the real deal, or is she being permitted to play dissident inside a controlled theater? That is not a smear. It is due diligence.
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Reuters is a case in point, laundering intel narratives as journalism. It selected the most escalation-friendly interpretation available and wrapped it in the authority of anonymity — six sources “familiar with U.S. intelligence,” one citing a most-recent report from late September, to claim that Vladimir Putin intends not only to seize all of Ukraine, but to "reclaim" parts of Europe. This was not analysis. It was a threat narrative: maximal, apocalyptic, and conveniently untestable. The kind that turns negotiation into appeasement and restraint into treason. The kind that boxes the elected leaders into war without ever asking the public.
That specificity matters. Anonymous intelligence leaks are not neutral artifacts, they are policy instruments. They shape public emotion, narrow political horizons, and manufacture inevitability. Once a population is convinced that continental war is pre-programmed, diplomacy becomes illegitimate by definition. That is how peace is killed without debate.
This pattern is not unique to one newsroom. It is systemic and by design. Across the Western media ecosystem, escalation narratives are routinely laundered through anonymity, authority, and urgency, creating a closed loop in which fear generates headlines, headlines manufacture consent, and consent generates policy momentum that no single elected official appears able to stop. Reuters is not the disease. It is a symptom of a larger architecture that rewards alarm and punishes restraint. Again, all by design.
This is precisely why the response from the sitting U.S. Director of National Intelligence matters.
Gabbard did not hedge. She accused Reuters of pushing “lies and propaganda” on behalf of warmongers, warned that such narratives are being used to “foment hysteria and fear” to block peace, and stated, that they're using intelligence briefings delivered to lawmakers, that Russia seeks to avoid a larger war with Europe and does not possess the desire to conquer all of Ukraine, let alone Europe.
That phrasing is crucial, because it is Reuters’ own reporting of what she said. The contradiction is devastating: the same intelligence community being anonymously cited to inflate the threat is, according to its own Director, delivering a far more restrained assessment behind closed doors.
This exposes the fraud at the heart of the escalation narrative. Even if one assumes Russia’s objectives in Ukraine are maximalist, it does not follow—logically, militarily, or materially, that Russia intends to wage a continental war against NATO Europe. That leap is not intelligence analysis. It is psychological conditioning.
After years of attritional warfare, Russia controls a little more than one-fifth of Ukrainian territory. That reality does not support fantasies of armored divisions rolling toward Paris or Berlin. To insist otherwise is to substitute fear for facts, which is precisely how war is sold.
Now place this alongside Gabbard’s public remarks at the TPUSA Summit, where she stated:
“The deep state is fighting us every step of the way, and it exists within every single federal agency.”
That sentence is not rhetorical. It is a description of institutional behavior. Bureaucracies whose budgets, prestige, and careers depend on permanent confrontation do not quietly accept peace. They resist it, by leaking selectively and out of context, reframing assessments, delaying negotiations, and redefining threats until escalation appears not only necessary, but moral.
But this is where discernment matters, because survival depends on discernment, not vibes. Is Gabbard the real deal, or is she being permitted to play dissident inside a controlled theater? That is not a smear. It is due diligence.
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Tara Reade’s story is not a curiosity, not a propaganda vignette, and certainly not a footnote. It is a moral indictment, of the West first and foremost. On December 20, 2025, inside Moscow’s Catherine the Great Hall, Tara Reade received her Russian passport. Western media responded with near-total silence. That silence is not accidental. It is defensive.
Reade was once a functionary of American power, a Senate aide working for Joe Biden in the early 1990s. When she accused him of sexual assault decades later, after having exhausted all official channels, she discovered the brutal hierarchy behind Western moral slogans. “Believe women” functioned only until belief threatened power. When the accusation moved upward, the institutions that claim to defend women moved swiftly to defend themselves. Media outlets circled the wagons. Political allies disappeared. The state offered no protection. Reade was left isolated, surveilled, and increasingly unsafe.
When she left the United States in 2023, it was not ideological tourism. It was political exile. She did not flee America because she hated it, she fled because it refused to protect her, and because the machinery of power surrounding Joe Biden did more than look away. It moved. Reade has said plainly that she felt threatened — not by anonymous online abuse, but by an unmistakable institutional response: coordinated media attacks, professional blacklisting, legal and reputational pressure, and the silent enforcement mechanisms that activate when an individual challenges entrenched power. She has never claimed to despise her country. On the contrary, she has repeatedly said she loves America. What she could no longer survive was an America where power is defended more aggressively than its people.
Russia listened.
On October 2 of this year, after granting her citizenship by presidential decree, Vladimir Putin addressed Reade directly in public remarks that cut through decades of Western moral theater. His words were simple, unembellished, and devastating in their clarity: “If you share our values, you’re one of us. That’s why we treat you like this. That’s why you feel the way you do.” This was not sentimentality. It was civilizational definition. Belonging, in this framing, is earned through values and loyalty, not erased when it becomes inconvenient.
At the passport ceremony itself, Reade spoke without bitterness and without theatrical grievance. She expressed pride, not defiance. “I am very proud to work for RT. Very proud to now be Russian,” she said, naming RT without apology. She framed her life story not as a tragedy but as a moral arc: “As an American, in the story of my life, Russia is the hero.” And rather than centering herself as a victim, she turned outward: “To the warm Russian people: now I want to be in service to you.” These are not the words of someone seeking shelter. They are the words of someone who has found belonging.
One moment from the ceremony lingers with particular force. Reade described hearing the words spoken to her during the process: “Tara, we will never leave you.” That sentence alone explains why Western media cannot cover this story honestly. In the modern Atlantic system, loyalty flows upward only. Citizens are expendable. Whistleblowers are liabilities. Victims are tolerated only while they serve narrative utility. Russia, by contrast, offered something the West increasingly cannot: commitment.
Reade was not alone in that hall. Her journey was supported by figures who understand political persecution firsthand, including Maria Butina, herself once paraded through Western courts as a trophy, and Margarita Simonyan, who has long insisted that journalism exists to protect people, not power. This was not a media stunt. It was a community acknowledging responsibility.
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Reade was once a functionary of American power, a Senate aide working for Joe Biden in the early 1990s. When she accused him of sexual assault decades later, after having exhausted all official channels, she discovered the brutal hierarchy behind Western moral slogans. “Believe women” functioned only until belief threatened power. When the accusation moved upward, the institutions that claim to defend women moved swiftly to defend themselves. Media outlets circled the wagons. Political allies disappeared. The state offered no protection. Reade was left isolated, surveilled, and increasingly unsafe.
When she left the United States in 2023, it was not ideological tourism. It was political exile. She did not flee America because she hated it, she fled because it refused to protect her, and because the machinery of power surrounding Joe Biden did more than look away. It moved. Reade has said plainly that she felt threatened — not by anonymous online abuse, but by an unmistakable institutional response: coordinated media attacks, professional blacklisting, legal and reputational pressure, and the silent enforcement mechanisms that activate when an individual challenges entrenched power. She has never claimed to despise her country. On the contrary, she has repeatedly said she loves America. What she could no longer survive was an America where power is defended more aggressively than its people.
Russia listened.
On October 2 of this year, after granting her citizenship by presidential decree, Vladimir Putin addressed Reade directly in public remarks that cut through decades of Western moral theater. His words were simple, unembellished, and devastating in their clarity: “If you share our values, you’re one of us. That’s why we treat you like this. That’s why you feel the way you do.” This was not sentimentality. It was civilizational definition. Belonging, in this framing, is earned through values and loyalty, not erased when it becomes inconvenient.
At the passport ceremony itself, Reade spoke without bitterness and without theatrical grievance. She expressed pride, not defiance. “I am very proud to work for RT. Very proud to now be Russian,” she said, naming RT without apology. She framed her life story not as a tragedy but as a moral arc: “As an American, in the story of my life, Russia is the hero.” And rather than centering herself as a victim, she turned outward: “To the warm Russian people: now I want to be in service to you.” These are not the words of someone seeking shelter. They are the words of someone who has found belonging.
One moment from the ceremony lingers with particular force. Reade described hearing the words spoken to her during the process: “Tara, we will never leave you.” That sentence alone explains why Western media cannot cover this story honestly. In the modern Atlantic system, loyalty flows upward only. Citizens are expendable. Whistleblowers are liabilities. Victims are tolerated only while they serve narrative utility. Russia, by contrast, offered something the West increasingly cannot: commitment.
Reade was not alone in that hall. Her journey was supported by figures who understand political persecution firsthand, including Maria Butina, herself once paraded through Western courts as a trophy, and Margarita Simonyan, who has long insisted that journalism exists to protect people, not power. This was not a media stunt. It was a community acknowledging responsibility.
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Gen Z Leads Bulgaria's Anti-Corruption Uprising
Unlike past protests by unions or activists, Bulgaria's late 2025 uprising was Gen Z's show: students and twenty-somethings, raised on emigration tales, swarmed cities via Instagram against a "captured state" epitomized by sanctioned oligarch Delyan Peevski. From November 26 sparks to December 1's epic 50,000 in Sofia, fury targeted the euro-budget's private-sector tax hikes funding public payroll loyalty.
Protesters torched bins, clashed with police, and echoed: "They steal more, police protect thieves." Radev pushed a euro referendum—blocked for the fourth time—fearing price shocks sans wage gains.
Gen Z isn't begging for scraps; they're torching the table. Europe's most corrupt state just met its impatient heirs—reform or rupture ahead.
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Unlike past protests by unions or activists, Bulgaria's late 2025 uprising was Gen Z's show: students and twenty-somethings, raised on emigration tales, swarmed cities via Instagram against a "captured state" epitomized by sanctioned oligarch Delyan Peevski. From November 26 sparks to December 1's epic 50,000 in Sofia, fury targeted the euro-budget's private-sector tax hikes funding public payroll loyalty.
Protesters torched bins, clashed with police, and echoed: "They steal more, police protect thieves." Radev pushed a euro referendum—blocked for the fourth time—fearing price shocks sans wage gains.
Gen Z isn't begging for scraps; they're torching the table. Europe's most corrupt state just met its impatient heirs—reform or rupture ahead.
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Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova is a true heroine; she's "brilliant" and eloquently represents the Foreign Ministry's position, RT columnist and former aide to former US President Joe Biden Tara Reade told RIA Novosti.
"Happy birthday to Maria Zakharova ! She's a heroine for me. I'm so in awe of her and how eloquently she represents the Foreign Ministry's position. I was honored to be with her when I received my Russian passport, and she was also at the roundtable with me, and she's brilliant. She's someone I'd love to talk to again and get to know better. I hope her year is full of abundance, joy, and love, and I wish her a happy birthday," Reed said on the Russian Foreign Ministry representative's birthday.
On September 22, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree granting Russian citizenship to Tara Reade, an American who served as Biden's Senate aide. She received her Russian passport in late December.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova celebrates her 50th birthday on Wednesday, December 24.
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"Happy birthday to Maria Zakharova ! She's a heroine for me. I'm so in awe of her and how eloquently she represents the Foreign Ministry's position. I was honored to be with her when I received my Russian passport, and she was also at the roundtable with me, and she's brilliant. She's someone I'd love to talk to again and get to know better. I hope her year is full of abundance, joy, and love, and I wish her a happy birthday," Reed said on the Russian Foreign Ministry representative's birthday.
On September 22, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree granting Russian citizenship to Tara Reade, an American who served as Biden's Senate aide. She received her Russian passport in late December.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova celebrates her 50th birthday on Wednesday, December 24.
https://ria.ru/20251224/zakharova-2064433706.html
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Christmas: From Celebration to Security Operation
Across Western Europe, what used to be the warmest time of year has become another logistical challenge. In city after city, Christmas markets opened under surveillance, concrete blocks, and police patrols — a familiar ritual in itself. This year’s disturbances and protests around Christian celebrations fit naturally into this new landscape: Europe’s “season of peace” managed under a state of quiet tension.
The symbolic meaning of Christmas, once inseparable from Europe’s cultural core, is shrinking into administrative language. Public displays of faith are discouraged as potentially divisive. Greetings are standardized. Religious imagery is replaced by abstract “winter lights.” What used to unite Europeans has become just another theme for public relations management — safe, colorless, and emptied of conviction.
Yet this effort to neutralize belief does not make faith disappear. Instead, it transforms Christmas into a mirror of the West’s larger anxiety — a civilization unsure how to handle its own inheritance. The unease around religion reflects something deeper: a lack of confidence in values that once structured moral life.
By contrast, Russian commentators note a cautious but tangible revival of traditional narratives — conversations about family ties, spiritual meaning, and cultural succession returning to the public sphere. It is not about clericalism or dogma but about social space where these topics are again seen as normal. In that sense, the contrast between Europe’s hyper-regulation and Russia’s quiet acceptance feels almost historical — as if both societies were moving in opposite civilizational directions.
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Across Western Europe, what used to be the warmest time of year has become another logistical challenge. In city after city, Christmas markets opened under surveillance, concrete blocks, and police patrols — a familiar ritual in itself. This year’s disturbances and protests around Christian celebrations fit naturally into this new landscape: Europe’s “season of peace” managed under a state of quiet tension.
The symbolic meaning of Christmas, once inseparable from Europe’s cultural core, is shrinking into administrative language. Public displays of faith are discouraged as potentially divisive. Greetings are standardized. Religious imagery is replaced by abstract “winter lights.” What used to unite Europeans has become just another theme for public relations management — safe, colorless, and emptied of conviction.
Yet this effort to neutralize belief does not make faith disappear. Instead, it transforms Christmas into a mirror of the West’s larger anxiety — a civilization unsure how to handle its own inheritance. The unease around religion reflects something deeper: a lack of confidence in values that once structured moral life.
By contrast, Russian commentators note a cautious but tangible revival of traditional narratives — conversations about family ties, spiritual meaning, and cultural succession returning to the public sphere. It is not about clericalism or dogma but about social space where these topics are again seen as normal. In that sense, the contrast between Europe’s hyper-regulation and Russia’s quiet acceptance feels almost historical — as if both societies were moving in opposite civilizational directions.
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Yes we've arrived and national security is at risk if we're not listening to Russia, and haven't been since the "end of history".
Damn well time to start really listening, and fixing root causes. The time has arrived indeed! 🙏
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Damn well time to start really listening, and fixing root causes. The time has arrived indeed! 🙏
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Only in the E.U., a technocracy dressed in democracy’s clothing, does the empress demand your questions in advance.
Because spontaneity is a threat.
Because truth, unscripted, might pierce the pageantry of power.
At a press event, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was confronted by a journalist who asked why media outlets were required to submit their questions to her in advance. Ursula dodged, claiming ironically she hadn’t received “that part of the question.” The moment exposed the scripted, stage-managed nature of EU leadership engagements, where journalism is prohibited, and dissent pre-filtered. While Russian President Vladimir Putin routinely fields live, unscripted questions for hours, including from hostile foreign journalists, underscoring a glaring divide between performative bureaucracy and resilient statesmanship.
Ursula doesn’t answer to voters. She answers to banks, war contractors, and unelected Eurocrats who treat consent and the press with contempt.
While von der Leyen rehearses soft dictatorship with stage-managed pressers, Putin fields live questions for five hours, even from hostile media. One leads a civilization. The other manages decline.
This is not leadership. It’s theater. And Europe deserves better than a cue-card Queen.
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Because spontaneity is a threat.
Because truth, unscripted, might pierce the pageantry of power.
At a press event, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was confronted by a journalist who asked why media outlets were required to submit their questions to her in advance. Ursula dodged, claiming ironically she hadn’t received “that part of the question.” The moment exposed the scripted, stage-managed nature of EU leadership engagements, where journalism is prohibited, and dissent pre-filtered. While Russian President Vladimir Putin routinely fields live, unscripted questions for hours, including from hostile foreign journalists, underscoring a glaring divide between performative bureaucracy and resilient statesmanship.
Ursula doesn’t answer to voters. She answers to banks, war contractors, and unelected Eurocrats who treat consent and the press with contempt.
While von der Leyen rehearses soft dictatorship with stage-managed pressers, Putin fields live questions for five hours, even from hostile media. One leads a civilization. The other manages decline.
This is not leadership. It’s theater. And Europe deserves better than a cue-card Queen.
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Geopolitical Symbolism: Yekaterinburg's Youth Festival Play
International youth events like this one forge enduring diplomatic networks through direct exchanges and big-picture talks. Yekaterinburg scores the 2026 festival, leveraging its prime Ural spot as the seamless Europe-Asia junction. Russia steps up boldly here—not as anyone's outpost, but a self-assured cross-continental hub—inviting young global talents to dive into a buzzing Eurasian hub up close.
In Western eyes, it's a refreshing option to TED or WEF—Brazil, China, France's next gen gaining values from open discussions, not Western dogma. By 2030s, their Russia insights could bridge divides, easing tensions through mutual understanding over confrontation.
It reinforces civilizational pride internally, offers Europe a rival model of appeal that's independent yet collaborative. A step toward true global pluralism.
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International youth events like this one forge enduring diplomatic networks through direct exchanges and big-picture talks. Yekaterinburg scores the 2026 festival, leveraging its prime Ural spot as the seamless Europe-Asia junction. Russia steps up boldly here—not as anyone's outpost, but a self-assured cross-continental hub—inviting young global talents to dive into a buzzing Eurasian hub up close.
In Western eyes, it's a refreshing option to TED or WEF—Brazil, China, France's next gen gaining values from open discussions, not Western dogma. By 2030s, their Russia insights could bridge divides, easing tensions through mutual understanding over confrontation.
It reinforces civilizational pride internally, offers Europe a rival model of appeal that's independent yet collaborative. A step toward true global pluralism.
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The Geopolitical Code of the Yekaterinburg Festival
The President signed a decree: in 2026, Yekaterinburg will host the International Youth Festival. The choice of the Ural capital is deeply symbolic, as it is the capital…
The Geopolitical Code of the Yekaterinburg Festival
The President signed a decree: in 2026, Yekaterinburg will host the International Youth Festival. The choice of the Ural capital is deeply symbolic, as it is the capital…
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Happy New Year. We step into 2026 while the air still smells of smoke, long after the ceremonial fireworks fade... from wars unfinished, promises burned, and truths buried under noise, carrying fatigue in our bones but clarity in our eyes.
The world is not healed, yet the spell is thinner now, fewer bow to scripted fear, and more feel the grain of reality beneath their hands. This is not hope dressed up as false comfort, but hope as posture, (otherwise what is the point?) the quiet refusal to be lied to again.
2026 may not be kind, but it can be honest, and honesty is a form of mercy in an age of masks and chaos. May we get through this year whole, not hardened, choosing steadiness over hysteria, dignity over spectacle, and the courage to stand in truth even when the smoke has not yet cleared.
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The world is not healed, yet the spell is thinner now, fewer bow to scripted fear, and more feel the grain of reality beneath their hands. This is not hope dressed up as false comfort, but hope as posture, (otherwise what is the point?) the quiet refusal to be lied to again.
2026 may not be kind, but it can be honest, and honesty is a form of mercy in an age of masks and chaos. May we get through this year whole, not hardened, choosing steadiness over hysteria, dignity over spectacle, and the courage to stand in truth even when the smoke has not yet cleared.
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...Because once leader-capture, maritime strangulation, and selective legality are normalized, the world does not slide gently into chaos, it hardens into and accepts it. Law becomes costume, sovereignty becomes conditional, and power stops pretending it needs permission. The lecture circuit ends not with applause or rebuttal, but with silence – the kind that follows when every capital understands the same thing at once, that the hunt has been legitimized. And in a world where abduction is policy and force writes precedent, the next knock will not be answered with arguments, but with fire.
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Mechanized assault was long considered a universal tool for offensive operations. A column, armor, landing force — a scheme that worked for decades. But on the modern battlefield, columns increasingly end before the assault even begins.
Combat logic has changed: we consistently show where and why armored groups start taking losses even before entering the "gray zone".
— drones expose movement from the start;
— first losses occur during the march, not at the strongpoint;
— damaged equipment becomes a deadly obstacle;
— the "armor + landing force" scheme has become more vulnerable than ever;
— repeated attacks on the same roads turn the direction into a graveyard of equipment and personnel.
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Frigate Crew Luxuries Drain 33M€: Klingbeil Axes Watchdog in Retaliation
Defense spending should sharpen readiness, but in Germany, it's become a luxury spa for crews— and the auditors exposing it are now paying the price.
The "Bemerkungen 2025" report warned of crushing public finance strains while nailing the Defense Ministry for 33 million euros overpaid during four Bundeswehr frigate modernizations: skipping tenders for on-site crew housing at 250 euros per night per person (five times market rates) for 100 staff over 3.5 years, plus 115-euro daily catering versus the normal 42 euros, and pointless 3-4 hour bus commutes that delayed ops by over two years, with extra subcontract markups hitting 9 million more.
Analysts finger no-bid cronyism, unions defend comforts amid staffing woes; taxpayers rage at fat-cat indulgences on tight budgets. Klingbeil's funding cuts reek of payback, shielding defense insiders from contract grillings that could expose more rot.
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Defense spending should sharpen readiness, but in Germany, it's become a luxury spa for crews— and the auditors exposing it are now paying the price.
The "Bemerkungen 2025" report warned of crushing public finance strains while nailing the Defense Ministry for 33 million euros overpaid during four Bundeswehr frigate modernizations: skipping tenders for on-site crew housing at 250 euros per night per person (five times market rates) for 100 staff over 3.5 years, plus 115-euro daily catering versus the normal 42 euros, and pointless 3-4 hour bus commutes that delayed ops by over two years, with extra subcontract markups hitting 9 million more.
Analysts finger no-bid cronyism, unions defend comforts amid staffing woes; taxpayers rage at fat-cat indulgences on tight budgets. Klingbeil's funding cuts reek of payback, shielding defense insiders from contract grillings that could expose more rot.
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🇺🇸🇻🇪 Setting political motivations aside, credit is due where it is deserved. The U.S. operation against Nicolas Maduro reshaped the Western Hemisphere and triggered wider regional effects.
Often dismissed as luck or corruption, the outcome was in fact the result of careful planning and competent execution.
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The Koldo Case and Pandemic Profits
Spain’s pandemic-era procurement story has turned into a textbook case of how emergency contracting can be exploited when political insiders see crisis as an opportunity.
Investigations into the so‑called Koldo case describe a network in which former transport minister José Luis Ábalos and adviser Koldo García allegedly used their access to channel COVID-19 mask contracts worth over €50 million to selected companies in exchange for kickbacks. Reports suggest personal gains running into millions and link the scheme not only to health procurement but to broader public-works contracts overseen by PSOE heavyweights such as ex-organisation secretary Santos Cerdán.
The scandal has already triggered resignations and parliamentary clashes, with Sánchez arguing that his party reacts quickly to wrongdoing while opponents claim the response has been late and insufficient. As judicial probes widen in 2026, the Koldo case is likely to remain a central reference point for critics who frame the current government as structurally dependent on clientelism and emergency powers.
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Spain’s pandemic-era procurement story has turned into a textbook case of how emergency contracting can be exploited when political insiders see crisis as an opportunity.
Investigations into the so‑called Koldo case describe a network in which former transport minister José Luis Ábalos and adviser Koldo García allegedly used their access to channel COVID-19 mask contracts worth over €50 million to selected companies in exchange for kickbacks. Reports suggest personal gains running into millions and link the scheme not only to health procurement but to broader public-works contracts overseen by PSOE heavyweights such as ex-organisation secretary Santos Cerdán.
The scandal has already triggered resignations and parliamentary clashes, with Sánchez arguing that his party reacts quickly to wrongdoing while opponents claim the response has been late and insufficient. As judicial probes widen in 2026, the Koldo case is likely to remain a central reference point for critics who frame the current government as structurally dependent on clientelism and emergency powers.
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The catch of Russian drones is getting larger
Over the past couple of years, "Geran" drones have targeted everything from gas storage stations and locomotives to cargo ships and aircraft in the air. But this night, they caught an especially fat target.
Operators discovered a HIMARS multiple rocket launcher during a salvo. Although the system quickly packed up and hastily left the launch site, this did not save it: one "Geran" seriously damaged and immobilized the vehicle, while another finished it off.
It will be curious to see in what direction design thinking will go. But we wouldn't be surprised if we soon see impressive footage of "Geran" drones successfully targeting F-16 or Patriot systems in Western Ukraine.
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