We are now on day 1,381 of the war in Ukraine and the attacks deep into Russia continue. Those who saw the drone map last night could sense that it should pay off as it looked massive, and indeed we got results.
Late last night, Ukraine attacked the port of Temryuk located in Krasnodar. There is a large gas terminal at the port, and it seems that it has been hit, triggering a major fire. The port is a major hub for various maritime transports.
https://bsky.app/profile/specialkhersoncat.bsky.social/post/3m772az2yk22p
Footage shows a skyscraper in Groznyj burning after a drone blew a hole in the facade. Apparently, the skyscraper is one of Kadyrov’s prestige projects.
https://bsky.app/profile/tendar.bsky.social/post/3m77syizomk2d
Residents of the city of Syzran in Samara have reported explosions at the local oil refinery, and despite it being prohibited, images and videos have been released.
https://bsky.app/profile/euromaidanpress.bsky.social/post/3m77dzji4c52k
Russian Losses
It’s been a while, but once again, a Russian aircraft, a MIG-29, has bitten the dust. It was GUR who took down the plane with a drone while it was on the airbase. Video in this post on Bluesky.
- 1240 KWIA
- 1 AFV
- 34 Artillery systems
- 2 MLRS
- 1 Aircraft
- 424 UAVs
- 94 Vehicles & fuel tanks
- 2 Special Equipment
Russian Activities
It’s been a long time since we’ve seen this amount of grenades. In the early stages of the war in Ukraine and a few months in, between 20 – 60,000 grenades were reported per day. Compared to that, the levels are low, but the average has been below 4,000 in recent days, so there is a significant difference. It will be interesting to see if it continues at a new higher level. Could it be that Russia has saved up artillery and now decided to deploy it?
- 167 battles
- 61 air strikes
- 173 KAB
- 6,664 grenades (including 153 rockets from “Stalin organs/MLRS”)
- 4,480 suicide drones
SLAVA UKRAINI
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An increased share of Ukrainian attacks in the AFU’s daily report from this morning. The distribution of Ukrainian/Russian attacks was record-breaking, 35/132, for a total of 167, a slight decrease from yesterday. Only once this ratio has been exceeded, since spring.
Continued strong pressure in Pokrovsk.
N Slobozhansky-Kursk 2↘️
S Slobozhansky 4↘️
Kupyansk 2
Lyman 9💥
Slovyansk 13💥↘️
Kramatorsk 1↘️
Kostjantynivka 16💥↘️
Pokrovsk 52💥💥💥↗️
Oleksandrivskij 19💥↗️
Huliaypillia 12💥
Orikhivsk 1
Prydniprovskij/Dnipro 1↘️
Sum sectors 132↘️
Total 167
Unlocalized 35 (35/132 27%)↗️↗️
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The French intelligence service has obtained Kremlin documents showing that Moscow has approved a plan to fuel tensions between Jewish and Muslim groups in France by staging anti-Semitic and Islamophobic attacks, reports Mediapart. Serbian citizen Aleksandar Savic, a known Russian agent currently on the run, has remotely orchestrated operations in 2025, including vandalism with green paint at Jewish sites in May and the placement of pig heads at mosques in September, with the help of accomplices driving Serbian-registered vehicles.
https://x.com/polidemitolog/status/1996617996010410041?s=46
Should it be the absolute lowest hanging fruit in almost all societies?
WHAT DO I USUALLY WRITE
🔥Bombing, radar, and logistics: in two weeks, GUR’s “Primary” has destroyed eight enemy targets in Crimea.
The special forces unit “Primary” from the Intelligence Service of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine continues its methodical demilitarization on the temporarily occupied peninsula.
In the past two weeks, they have carried out eight precise attacks on the occupiers’ military infrastructure.
💥The drones “Primary” hit:
• front-line bomber Su-24;
• antenna in a radio-transparent dome;
• radar station 39H6 “Kasta-2E2”;
• UAV “Orion”;
• two radar stations 48Y6-K1 “Podlot”;
• freight train and “Ural” belonging to Russian troops.
🎥 Watch the video to see how “Prima” hits targets in the enemy’s rear lines.
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Should it be the absolute lowest hanging fruit in almost all societies?
✍️ The fabricated “Nazi coup”: How Russian propaganda constructs a state that never existed
By Anatoli Loucher facebook.com/share/p/1Euzjf…
https://x.com/anno1540/status/1996863573079867852?s=46
For more than ten years, the Kremlin has been telling the same story: in 2014, a “Nazi coup” allegedly took place in Ukraine – without any constitutional basis – and therefore Russia’s “reaction” was in some way “understandable” or even “necessary.”
This claim is not only false. It is constructed, intentionally misleading – and it perfectly illustrates how propaganda works.
So it’s time to expose this myth.
Anatoli Loucher
Revelation 1: The 2% myth – a number that proves nothing
The most common “evidence” cited by pro-Russian commentators goes like this: to remove Yanukovych from office, 75% of parliamentarians should have voted in favor, but “only” 73% did. Therefore: a coup. Therefore: Nazis. Therefore: the war was justified.
This narrative has four fundamental problems:
• First: The alleged “75% rule” applies only to a formal impeachment process, that is, for a sitting president accused and convicted. But in 2014, there was no impeachment. The president was not in office. The procedure Russia refers to never took place.
• Second: At the time of the vote, Yanukovych was no longer president in any functional sense. He had – fled from Kiev, – cut off all communication, – ceased to perform his official duties. A president who abandons the country no longer exists de facto as head of state. Constitutionally, the responsibility then automatically transitions to a political decision by the Rada.
• Third: The Rada voted with 328 out of 450 votes – that is 72.9%, a constitutional supermajority. This exceeds all thresholds required for regular parliamentary decisions.
• Fourth: Even if there were procedural irregularities – which is quite normal during revolutions – one fact remains: the interim government was replaced by free, internationally recognized elections. At this point, all coup theories completely collapse.
The legend of 75% is therefore not just false – it is intentionally false, as it mixes up legal procedures that didn’t even apply in 2014.
2. Why the Kremlin needs the 2% legend
Russia’s leadership must stick to the coup narrative, as otherwise, it has no pretext left to justify its war of aggression.
Because:
If the revolution was legitimate → Russia’s “intervention” was illegal. If the interim government was legitimate → Russia’s invasion violates the UN Charter. If Ukraine chose its government democratically → the narrative of “de-Nazification” is absurd nonsense.
The story of “73 instead of 75” is therefore not an argument but a meme with a legal veneer – a manipulative rhetorical trick, nothing more.
3. The absurd claim of a “Nazi government”
Another propaganda delusion: in 2014, a “Nazi government” probably took power.
Facts:
Some ministers from the far-right party Svoboda briefly joined the interim government.
They did not hold key ministerial positions.
The party received only 4.7% in the next election and later disappeared entirely.
Ukrainian voters have consistently punished far-right parties.
The Russian version is: three interim ministers = Nazi state.
This is as intellectually serious as claiming that Austria is a communist state because it once had some communist party councilors.
It’s propaganda – not politics.
4. The “decree evidence” – how an honorary designation is turned into a Nazi construction
Russian propaganda often cites decree 610/2023, in which a Ukrainian military unit was named after Yevhen Konovalets – as a supposed “proof” of Nazi glorification.
What is omitted:
Konovalets died in 1938, before World War II. – He was not a National Socialist. – He fought against Soviet and Polish oppression. – For Ukraine, he represents national independence, not fascism.
To redefine a champion of independence from 1938 as “Nazi” is not historiography – it’s political fantasy trying to create its own reality.
5. Why these stories survive despite all facts
Because they serve a clear propaganda purpose.
The pattern is:
1. Take a detail out of its context (73%, Svoboda ministers, a decree).
2. Build a big story around it (“Nazi coup”).
3. Let repetition take over – from trolls, bot farms, uncritical readers.
4. Morally redefine the act of aggression (“We had to intervene”).
This is how modern propaganda works: not through evidence, but through claims designed to never die.
6. Reality is not spectacular – and therefore strong
What actually happened in 2014:
A corrupt regime collapsed.
The president fled.
Rada took responsibility.
Free elections were held.
Ukraine remained democratic.
No coup. No Nazi state. No constitutional power takeover.
Just a country freeing itself from an authoritarian president – and now fighting a war because an empire refuses to accept it.
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The coup narrative is not a mistake – it is a tool.
It serves a single purpose:
To conceal an act of aggression with moral justifications that would otherwise be indefensible.
Anyone who repeats it – whether out of naivety or intention – actively contributes to spreading Russian disinformation.
And the facts are clear:
There was no coup. There was no Nazi government. There was no constitutional power transfer.
It was a revolution – and then a democratic election. Everything else is propaganda……
Good text! 👍
Pedagogical and clear. Maybe you should translate into English and Russian and distribute “everywhere and to everyone”?
Good 👍
Thank you for the review.
Good overview!
I hope this disproves the thesis that there is only one truth, but infinitely many lies, so statistically one should never confront a liar.
Carl Bildt on US National Security Strategy:
“The new 🇺🇸 security strategy proclaims, among other remarkable things, as a goal for 🇺🇸 policy to ”cultivate resistance to Europe’s current course within European nations”. It’s JD Vance on steroids.”
“The only part of the world where the new 🇺🇸 security strategy sees any threat to democracy seems to be Europe. Bizarre.”
https://x.com/carlbildt/status/1996873164014383544?s=46
How was it again? Is the USA our friend?
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf
“President Trump single-handedly reversed more than three decades of erroneous American assumptions about China: namely, that by opening our markets to China, encouraging American companies to invest in China, and outsourcing our manufacturing to China, we would facilitate China’s entry into the so-called ‘rules-based international order.’ This did not happen. China became rich and powerful and used its wealth and power to its great advantage. American elites – across four successive administrations of both political parties – were either willing accomplices to China’s strategy or denied it.”
China 🇨🇳
“To achieve this, several things are crucial.
First and foremost, the United States must protect and defend our economy and our people from harm, regardless of the country or source behind it. This includes, among other things, that we must put a stop to:
• Predatory, state-directed subsidies and industrial strategies.
• Unfair trading practices.
• Job loss and deindustrialization.
• Large-scale theft of intellectual property and industrial espionage.
• Threats to our supply chains that jeopardize U.S. access to critical resources, including minerals and rare earth metals.
• Export of fentanyl precursors fueling the opioid crisis in the U.S.
• Propaganda, influence operations, and other forms of cultural subversion.
Secondly, the United States must collaborate with our treaty allies and partners – who together contribute an additional $35 trillion in economic power to our own national economy of $30 trillion (which together represents more than half of the global economy) – to counteract predatory economic practices and use our collective economic power to help secure our leading position in the global economy and ensure that allied economies do not become subordinate to any competing power. We must continue to enhance commercial (and other) relationships with India to encourage New Delhi to contribute to security in the Indo-Pacific region, including through continued quadrilateral cooperation with Australia, Japan, and the United States (“Quad”). Additionally, we will also work to align the actions of our allies and partners with our common interest in preventing dominance by any single competing nation.
At the same time, the U.S. must invest in research to preserve and strengthen our leading position in advanced military technology and dual-use technologies, focusing on areas where the U.S. has its strongest advantages. These include underwater, space, and nuclear technology, as well as other areas that will determine the future military balance of power, such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and autonomous systems, as well as the energy required to power these areas.
Furthermore, the U.S. government’s important relationships with the American private sector help maintain surveillance of persistent threats to American networks, including critical infrastructure. This, in turn, enables the U.S. government to detect, identify, and respond to threats in real time.”
Strongly marked below, Johan No.1 has repeated. We can also include ChatControl, so we have things where the EU paints itself into a corner, and pulls a wet and cold blanket over itself. Wrong focus, non-constructive.
Europe 🇪🇺 🇬🇧
“But this economic downturn is overshadowed by the real and more serious risk of civilization being extinguished. The major problems facing Europe include activities from the European Union and other transnational bodies undermining political freedom and sovereignty, migration policies changing the continent and creating conflicts, censorship of freedom of speech and suppression of political opposition, sharply declining birth rates and loss of national identity and self-confidence.
If the current trend continues, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less. It is therefore far from certain whether some European countries will have strong enough economies and military forces to remain reliable allies. Many of these nations are currently deepening their current course. We want Europe to remain European, regain its civilizational self-confidence, and abandon its failed focus on suffocating regulations.“
Johan No.1, you have missed this!
“The war in Ukraine has had the perverse effect of increasing Europe’s, and especially Germany’s, external dependence. Today, German chemical companies are building some of the world’s largest processing plants in China, where they use Russian gas that they cannot get at home.”
Bad, bad.. 🪽🇩🇪🪽🇨🇳🇷🇺
https://x.com/rnaudbertrand/status/1996829143410028702?s=46
“This is significant. The final American national security strategy has just been published, confirming the refocus on the Western Hemisphere (i.e., America).
The document clearly states that this is the highest priority for the USA and states that the USA will now “assert and enforce a ‘Trump-era’ interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine.”
Regarding military presence, they write that this means “a realignment of our global military presence to address acute threats in our hemisphere and away from areas whose relative importance to American national security has diminished over the past decades or years.”
Regarding China, a couple of points.
The most striking for me is that China is NO longer defined as “the” primary threat, “the most significant challenge,” “the rapidly growing threat,” or similar wordings used in previous similar documents.
It is clearly downgraded as a priority. Based on the document’s structure and emphasis, the USA’s highest priorities can be characterized as:
1) Domestic security and borders (migration, cartels, etc.)
2) Western Hemisphere (reaffirmation of the Monroe Doctrine)
3) Economic security (reindustrialization, supply chains)
4) China and the Indo-Pacific region
To be clear, they do not define China as an ally or partner in any form, but mainly as 1) an economic competitor, 2) a source of vulnerabilities in the supply chain (but also a trading partner), and 3) an actor whose regional dominance “ideally” should be prevented because it “has significant consequences for the American economy.”
Interestingly, I believe, for the first time ever, they mention the possibility that China could militarily surpass them:
– They write that “dissuading conflict over Taiwan, preferably by maintaining military superiority, is a priority”: “preferably” clearly means it is ideal but not necessarily a given. The fact that they only call deterring conflict over Taiwan “a priority” also suggests, by definition, that it is no longer a top strategic priority or vital interest.
– Regarding Taiwan, they also clearly suggest that if the USA’s “first island chain allies” do not “take greater responsibility and invest – and more importantly, act – much more for collective defense,” a “power balance so unfavorable to us that it becomes impossible to defend the island” may arise.
They still claim that the “USA does not support any unilateral change in the status quo in the Taiwan Strait,” but there is evidently a growing gap between what the USA claims to oppose and what it is actually willing to do about the matter.
Interestingly, unlike previous similar documents, there is no ideological dimension in the document regarding China. No “democracy versus autocracy” framework, no defense of a “rules-based international order,” no value-based crusade. China is treated as a practical issue that must be managed, not as an ideological adversary to be defeated.
In fact, the document explicitly mentions, for the first time ever, I believe, that the USA’s policy now is:
– “not based on traditional political ideology”
– that they “seek good relations and peaceful trade ties with the world’s nations without imposing on them democratic or other social changes that differ greatly from their traditions and history”
– and that they aim for “good relations with nations whose governance differs from ours.”
This is a quite astonishing deviation from the rhetoric of the past decades. We all knew this, but now it is clear that the era of missionary liberal internationalism in US foreign policy is dead and buried.
The competition with China is primarily described in economic terms, explicitly so: they write that the competition is about “winning the economic future” and that the economy is “what is ultimately at stake.”
They particularly admit that the tariff strategy “initiated in 2017” regarding China essentially failed because “China adapted” and “strengthened its grip on supply chains.”
The new strategy, as described in the document, is to build an economic coalition against China that can exert more influence than the American economy alone – a tacit acknowledgment that America is no longer powerful enough on its own.
However, the contradiction is obvious: it is unclear how to build an economic coalition against China while waging trade wars against its coalition partners, demanding they take greater responsibility for their own defense, and treating every alliance relationship as a deal to be renegotiated to America’s advantage.
At some point, these “allies” will pose a very obvious question: why should we sacrifice our economic interests to support an America that can no longer compete on its own – and that gives us less and less in return?”
https://x.com/rnaudbertrand/status/1996829143410028702?s=46
Thank you! Very interesting comments!
It seems like they planned to shoot down Zelensky’s plane as it was approaching for landing?
Murder as part of the plan – not unreasonable.
Russia is our biggest problem.
Yes. Which in order was it, do you think?
Did you see that Macron has been in China?
BEIJING JUST REDREW THE MAP OF POWER
🔗 https://x.com/shanaka86/status/1996822575956349433?s=12
PEKING HAR JUST RITAT OM MAKTKARTAN
Xi Jinping looked Emmanuel Macron in the eyes and asked France to help build a world without American hegemony.
Not in the background. Not through intermediaries. In front of the cameras. December 4, 2025.
The exact words from China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs: “Make new efforts to promote an equal and orderly multipolar world.”
Translation: Choose.
The numbers speak for themselves.
The EU has an annual deficit of 300 billion euros with China. France alone: 20 billion euros in the red. China now accounts for 46% of France’s total trade deficit.
And yet: 12 cooperation agreements were signed in a single afternoon. Nuclear power. Agriculture. Education. AI.
No breakthrough on tariffs for electric cars. No resolution on rare earth metals. No mega-order of Airbus.
So what did Beijing really buy?
A photograph. A signal. A crack in the Western facade wide enough to drive a wedge.
Macron wants strategic autonomy. Xi wants a divided Atlantic. Their interests align enough to scare Washington.
Here’s what no one is saying:
This visit was never about trade balances. It was a job interview. China is actively recruiting the next generation of post-American partners, and Europe’s most ambitious leader just flew 8,000 kilometers to audition.
The test will come in 2026. See how France votes on China’s tariffs on electric cars. See if Paris pressures Brussels to soften. See if NATO’s cohesion holds when the costs come.
Macron walked a tightrope. But tightropes have two ends.
One is anchored in Washington. The other is held by Beijing.
The rope gets longer. The wind picks up.
And 300 billion euros of gravity pulls in just one direction.
The post-American order did not begin with a declaration.
It began with a handshake in the Great Hall of the People.
The USA has tried to stop the EU’s plan to use frozen Russian state assets as collateral for a loan to Ukraine, reports Bloomberg. According to European diplomatic sources, American officials have urged several EU countries to oppose the proposal. The USA believes that the assets should be used to secure a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia, not to, in the US view, prolong the war. The European Commission has proposed that the frozen funds should form the basis for a loan of around 90 billion euros to cover Ukraine’s needs over the next two years. Belgium, where the majority of the assets are located, opposes the plan out of concern for future Russian compensation claims.
😡😡
The oligarchs need to watch out.
“The court confiscated all the property of ex-Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov worth over 1.2 billion rubles. He was stripped of a mansion from “The Master and Margarita”, an elite apartment worth 500 million, estates in Moscow, Barvikha, Karelia, and the Tver region …”
https://bsky.app/profile/beefeaterfella.bsky.social/post/3m7avqnmta22b
1/3
Needed a Friday binge today with funny dog videos to cheer up.
Can’t be bothered to look for my own.
The car has been at the workshop for almost two weeks, but they have now given up and can’t fix it.
It’s moving forward like the Russian army, but barely. Two engine stops on the way home, but I made it home anyway, always something.
Friday ✊✊😳
You have seen the US national security strategy towards Europe, haven’t you?
Who suspected that before 🧐
JN1!
Herregud, so much is happening right now 😳
😱
I was thinking about choosing between Mariestad or Norrlandsguöd and then which dip
Oh, it was worse than I thought! 😱😱😱
Thank you! Very interesting comments!
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“JAPAN WILL DEFEND TAIWAN”
Japan does not have an explicit, official defense agreement with Taiwan, but recent statements from Japanese officials suggest a strong possibility of military intervention in the event of a Chinese attack.
Approximately 80% of Japan’s energy imports pass through the seas around Taiwan.
A Chinese takeover or blockade could seriously disrupt these critical maritime routes and threaten Japan’s economic survival.
In November 2025, Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi stated in parliament that Chinese the use of force against Taiwan could legally trigger a “life-threatening situation” under Japan’s 2015 security legislation, which allows the use of force in collective self-defense even if Japan itself is not directly attacked.
Most people believe that the United States will be the first country to defend Taiwan against a Chinese invasion. However, one should not rule out the possibility that Japan will be the first country to come to Taiwan’s aid.
https://x.com/world_at_war_6/status/1996987939285332356?s=46
Viva la Japan!👍
“In the White House’s new national security strategy, Donald Trump’s contempt for Europe is exposed, as a picture of the continent is painted that at best lacks grounding in reality and at worst has its roots in far-right movements. This is written by CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh in an analysis. He writes that Europe is described as an undemocratic place where the population is actively being replaced by “non-European” – meaning non-white – inhabitants and that the continent will be “unrecognizable” within a couple of decades. “As a remedy, it is suggested that one should ‘cultivate resistance to current developments within European countries’ – a clear hint of open interference,” he continues. The Independent’s Sam Kiley calls their description of reality “utter madness” and points out that there is no reliable population analysis showing that any European country will ever become a majority of “non-European” inhabitants. He also cannot find any support for the claims that Europe’s democracies are threatened. Instead, he points to the erosion of American democracy under Trump. “As long as it persists and Trump simultaneously inserts blatant lies into national politics, it is no longer possible to consider the USA as an ally – or even as a reluctant partner”.”