Ukraine.

[Wolf]

Best not to fuck around and find out the hard way, I guess.
Even Trump isn't that stupid.

Russia’s response to Tomahawk strikes would be ‘overwhelming’ – Putin​

Supplying Kiev with the long-range missiles would be an “escalation attempt,” the Russian president has said

Russian President Vladimir Putin. © Sputnik / Kristina Kormilitsyna

Russia’s response to a Ukrainian strike using US-made Tomahawk missiles would be “very serious, if not... overwhelming,” President Vladimir Putin told journalists on Thursday. Supplying Kiev with such long-range weapons would be “an escalation attempt,” he warned.
Kiev has repeatedly requested Tomahawk missiles. Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky raised the issue during a meeting with US President Donald Trump at the White House last week. According to Axios, Zelensky failed to secure deliveries of the weapon. US officials had previously said that the option might be on the table, adding that Trump would make the ultimate decision.
Speaking during a meeting with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte at the White House on Wednesday, the president did not say whether the US might eventually provide Kiev with the missiles but stated that operating them required long and intensive training. The missiles have a maximum range of around 2,500km (1,550 miles).

“This would be an escalation. It is an escalation attempt,” Putin said, commenting on a potential delivery. “If Russian territory is hit… with such a weapon, the response will be very serious if not outright overwhelming,” the president added, encouraging Western leaders “to think about it.”
Moscow has previously warned that although Tomahawk deliveries would not affect the state of the battlefield of the Ukraine conflict, they would diminish peace prospects and strike a blow to US-Russian relations.
Putin discussed the issue with Trump during a phone call last week. Delivering the missiles would “severely undermine the prospects of a peaceful settlement,” he said at the time. Following the call, Trump said it would be “not easy” for the US to provide Kiev with Tomahawks and maintained that Washington should not deplete its own arsenal for Ukraine.

 

[Wolf]

The childishly named 'coalition of the willing' doesn't look so willing now.

Ukraine war latest: EU country trying to 'circumvent' US sanctions on Russia - as Zelenskyy heads to London summit

Ukraine's president is in London today to meet with leaders of the self-styled coalition of the willing, hoping to build on momentum against Russia, after the US hit Moscow with sanctions. One EU country, however, says it is trying to work around those levies. Follow the latest below.

news.sky.com

 

[Mad as Fish]

The childishly named 'coalition of the willing' doesn't look so willing now.

Ukraine war latest: EU country trying to 'circumvent' US sanctions on Russia - as Zelenskyy heads to London summit

Ukraine's president is in London today to meet with leaders of the self-styled coalition of the willing, hoping to build on momentum against Russia, after the US hit Moscow with sanctions. One EU country, however, says it is trying to work around those levies. Follow the latest below.

news.sky.com

Much of the EU posturing is simply looking absurd now, and even a few thickos in governments are starting to see that. Not that it will change much in the short term, but the gradual erosion of faith in the great anti Russia project will eventually move us on somehow.

 

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Russian Fighter Jets Invade Lithuania

Or so the headlines would have us believe. Yet Lithuania itself claims only that a fighter and a tanker entered its airspace for 14 seconds and a distance of 700 metres, while most probably conducting a refueling exercise over Kaliningrad Oblast (see Val for details).

But headlines are headlines.

 

[Wolf]

Jaysus, even the Russians have Ukrainians fighting against Zitler and NATO.

Fighting their own country: Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have been forcibly conscripted by Russia

Moscow is pursuing a policy of forced Russification and militarization in occupied territories, aiming to turn the local population into soldiers. These Ukrainians account for one quarter of the prisoners of war held by Kyiv, Le Monde reveals.

www.lemonde.fr

 

[Wolf]

The squabbling continues....

Belgium blocks EU plan to fund Ukraine with frozen Russian assets

The European Union has postponed a decision to use frozen Russian assets to finance Ukraine’s defence, after Belgium blocked a proposal to advance a €140bn loan backed by immobilised funds held in Brussels. The plan would allow Ukraine to access immediate financial support, repaid only if Russia...

www.helsinkitimes.fi

 

[Wolf]

Herr Starmer will be getting his hole tonight...

Keir Starmer says Putin 'not serious about peace' after meeting Volodymyr Zelensky - live updates

The UK prime minister has been pushing allies to supply long-range weapons to Kyiv.

www.bbc.com

 

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[Wolf]

The drive to impoverish EU citizens and enrich Trump's America continues.

Ukraine allies pledge to 'take Russian oil and gas off global market'

A "coalition of the willing" meeting in London seeks to increase pressure on Russia to end its war in Ukraine.

www.bbc.com

 

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[Wolf]

LOL's, the wannabee Nazis are going to bankrupt their own country before they get a chance to get seriously back into the war game, as are the Frogs.

German militarization wish list to cost nearly €400bn – Politico​

Berlin plans a rearmament to make the Bundeswehr “the strongest conventional army in Europe,” internal documents show

© Getty Images / picture alliance / Contributor


Germany is preparing a €377 billion ($440 billion) expansion of its armed forces, Politico reported on Monday, citing internal government documents. The move is part of a broader militarization drive across the EU.
The files reportedly detail a plan for new weapons and equipment projects across the Bundeswehr’s land, air, naval, space, and cyber forces. The long-term rearmament effort is expected to stretch beyond the 2026 budget.
The plan lists about 320 new projects, with roughly half of the funds set to go to German arms producers. Rheinmetall will supply tanks, air-defense systems, and ammunition worth tens of billions of euros, while Diehl Defence is expected to provide its IRIS-T missiles.
The package covers spending on satellites, drones, and naval programs. Around €14 billion is allocated for space projects, including a low-orbit network for military communications, while other funds would go to new reconnaissance and patrol systems. It also includes US-made weapons such as F-35 fighter jets and Tomahawk cruise missiles.

Major contracts will still require approval from the parliamentary budget committee once they are ready for implementation, Politico wrote.
Berlin has changed its budget rules to permit long-term defense spending beyond the €100-billion fund created after the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz has vowed to turn the Bundeswehr into the “strongest conventional army in Europe,” in a speech delivered shortly after the world marked the 80th anniversary of the fall of the Third Reich in May. German officials have set 2029 as the deadline for the Bundeswehr to be “war-ready,” citing alleged Russia threat. Moscow dismissed the claim as “nonsense” aimed at justifying higher Western military budgets.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has accused Merz of seeking to transform Germany back into “the main military machine of Europe,” saying Berlin’s policies prove its “direct involvement” in the proxy war against Russia. He also warned that the wider EU was sliding into what he described as a “Fourth Reich.”
READ MORE: Germany’s leaders share Hitler’s goals – Lavrov
Germany has become Ukraine’s second-largest arms supplier after the US. It sent the Leopard tanks used in Kiev’s failed incursion into Russia’s Kursk Region.
The buildup comes as Germany faces what economists have called a “dramatic” decline, with stagnating growth and weakening industry.

 

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Macron ‘dreams’ of military intervention in Ukraine – Moscow​

The French president has reportedly ordered a contingent of 2,000 soldiers to prepare to help Kiev, according to Russian intelligence

FILE PHOTO. French President Emmanuel Macron. © Getty Images / Christian Mang

French President Emmanuel Macron is preparing to intervene militarily in Ukraine, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has claimed. In a statement published on Monday, the agency’s press department suggested that he desperately wants to leave his mark on history.
“Having failed as a politician and despaired of ever pulling the country out of the long social and economic crisis, he does not give up the hope to go down in history as a military leader,” the SVR claimed, adding that Macron “dreams of a military intervention in Ukraine” and is “known for fantasizing about Napoleon’s ‘laurels’.”
According to the SVR, the French General Staff has reportedly already been instructed to form a contingent of up to 2,000 troops “for deployment in Ukraine.” The core of this force is expected to be made up of troops from the French Foreign Legion, mainly recruited from Latin American countries.
The SVR stated that Legion personnel are already deployed in regions of Poland bordering Ukraine, where they are undergoing “intensive joint combat training” and receiving weapons and equipment. Their transfer to central Ukraine has reportedly been scheduled in the near future.

The agency also said that France has already begun preparing for casualties, with “hundreds of additional hospital beds” reportedly being created to accommodate wounded soldiers, while French medics are said to be receiving field training to handle combat injuries.
Paris intends to describe the deployment as limited to instructors for the Ukrainian army in the event it becomes public, the SVR stated.
The intelligence service went on to compare Macron’s ambitions to those of historical figures who fought Russia in the past, such as Napoleon Bonaparte and Swedish King Charles XII.
It added that while the French leader dreams of mirroring those leaders’ accomplishments, he appears to have forgotten that their campaigns ended in defeat.
“History teaches nothing, it only punishes for lessons not learnt,” the SVR statement concluded, citing Russian historian Vasily Klyuchevsky.

 

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LOL's, the wannabee Nazis are going to bankrupt their own country before they get a chance to get seriously back into the war game, as are the Frogs.

German militarization wish list to cost nearly €400bn – Politico​

Berlin plans a rearmament to make the Bundeswehr “the strongest conventional army in Europe,” internal documents show

© Getty Images / picture alliance / Contributor


Germany is preparing a €377 billion ($440 billion) expansion of its armed forces, Politico reported on Monday, citing internal government documents. The move is part of a broader militarization drive across the EU.
The files reportedly detail a plan for new weapons and equipment projects across the Bundeswehr’s land, air, naval, space, and cyber forces. The long-term rearmament effort is expected to stretch beyond the 2026 budget.
The plan lists about 320 new projects, with roughly half of the funds set to go to German arms producers. Rheinmetall will supply tanks, air-defense systems, and ammunition worth tens of billions of euros, while Diehl Defence is expected to provide its IRIS-T missiles.
The package covers spending on satellites, drones, and naval programs. Around €14 billion is allocated for space projects, including a low-orbit network for military communications, while other funds would go to new reconnaissance and patrol systems. It also includes US-made weapons such as F-35 fighter jets and Tomahawk cruise missiles.

Major contracts will still require approval from the parliamentary budget committee once they are ready for implementation, Politico wrote.
Berlin has changed its budget rules to permit long-term defense spending beyond the €100-billion fund created after the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz has vowed to turn the Bundeswehr into the “strongest conventional army in Europe,” in a speech delivered shortly after the world marked the 80th anniversary of the fall of the Third Reich in May. German officials have set 2029 as the deadline for the Bundeswehr to be “war-ready,” citing alleged Russia threat. Moscow dismissed the claim as “nonsense” aimed at justifying higher Western military budgets.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has accused Merz of seeking to transform Germany back into “the main military machine of Europe,” saying Berlin’s policies prove its “direct involvement” in the proxy war against Russia. He also warned that the wider EU was sliding into what he described as a “Fourth Reich.”
READ MORE: Germany’s leaders share Hitler’s goals – Lavrov
Germany has become Ukraine’s second-largest arms supplier after the US. It sent the Leopard tanks used in Kiev’s failed incursion into Russia’s Kursk Region.
The buildup comes as Germany faces what economists have called a “dramatic” decline, with stagnating growth and weakening industry.

I just assume that the Americans ( American Deep-State / Dark-State i.e. the real government of a America, especially for the important stuff ) are ordering their EU Gimps to do all this !

 

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Defending EU style 'democracy'.

Zelensky says he ‘doesn’t care’ if claim used to oust Odessa mayor is fake​

The Ukrainian leader removed Gennady Trukhanov from his post after he was accused of holding Russian citizenship

Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky, Washington, DC, October 17, 2025. © Andrew Harnik / Getty Images


Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has said he is unconcerned about whether the evidence used to oust former Odessa Mayor Gennady Trukhanov was fake.
Zelensky fired the mayor of the southern city earlier this month over accusations that he holds a Russian passport. The allegations have reportedly since been shown to contain false information, with the passport number that Ukrainian investigators claimed was Trukhanov’s actually belonging to a woman from Siberia who recently crossed the Russian border.
Zelensky defended his decision to journalists on Tuesday, admitting he did not question the evidence presented by investigators.
”How many passports he has, which are real, which are fake, who made them? Frankly speaking, I do not care,” Zelensky said, as quoted by Ukrinform. “Is it 100% true that he is a Russian citizen? [Investigators] tell me ‘yes’.”
Trukhanov was one of several people stripped of Ukrainian citizenship earlier this month under Zelensky’s decree targeting individuals accused of secretly holding Russian passports. His administration has since been replaced by one appointed directly by the central government.

Trukhanov has said the allegations against him are based on fabrications and that he is the victim of a political purge. In an interview following his removal, he compared his situation to the Stalin-era repressions, arguing that there is no viable path for appeal under Zelensky’s rule.
International media outlets have also criticized the move. The Spectator described it as “a step too far,” suggesting it served as a warning to other local leaders that dissent would not be tolerated.
Reports have pointed to growing friction between Zelensky and prominent mayors, including Kiev’s Vitaly Klitschko, who accused the Ukrainian leader of consolidating power and edging toward a dictatorship.
Zelensky’s presidential term expired last year, but he continues to govern under martial law, after declining to transfer authority to the speaker of parliament as required by the Ukrainian Constitution.

 

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Zelensky strips prominent political opponents of citizenship – media​

Odessa mayor Gennady Trukhanov, ballet superstar Sergei Polunin and former MP Oleg Tsarev are also reportedly being targeted

FILE PHOTO: Ukraine's Vladimir Zelensky. © Getty Images / / Ed Ram


Vladimir Zelensky has stripped several prominent public figures of their Ukrainian citizenship. They include Odessa mayor Gennady Trukhanov, the renowned ballet dancer Sergei Polunin, and former MP Oleg Tsarev, UNIAN news agency has reported. All of them had criticized Kiev’s policies in the past.
Zelensky confirmed signing a decree stripping “certain individuals” of their Ukrainian citizenship on Telegram on Tuesday, accusing them of holding Russian passports. According to media reports, Polunin, Trykhanov and Tsarev were in the list.
Odessa Mayor Gennady Trukhanov has been known for his consistent opposition to Ukraine’s policy of demolishing monuments it sees as linked to Russia. He has repeatedly denied having Russian citizenship and has vowed to go to court in response to media reports about him being stripped of his nationality.
Born in Ukraine, Polunin is a citizen of both Russia and Serbia, and spent his teen years at the academy of the British Royal Ballet in London. He moved to Russia in the early 2010s, largely severing his ties with his home country.

Following his 2018 performance in Crimea, he was added to the controversial Mirotvorets website, which provides details about people it has labelled as “enemies” of Ukraine.
Tsarev served as a Verkhovna Rada MP from 2002 to 2014. Following the Western-backed 2014 Euromaidan coup in Kiev, he expressed his support for the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics. He has since retired from politics and settled in Crimea. In 2023, he survived an assassination attempt, which was allegedly orchestrated by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), according to the BBC.
Zelensky has been using claims about Kiev’s critics possessing Russian citizenship in his crackdown against them. Ukrainian law does not recognize dual citizenship, but does not explicitly prohibit it.
Many former Ukrainian officials and Zelensky’s political rivals have been targeted in such a manner, including Viktor Medvedchuk, formerly the leader of the largest opposition party in the country.
Metropolitan Onufry, the most senior bishop of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), the largest Christian denomination in the country, was stripped of his Ukrainian citizenship in July amid allegations that he was also a Russian national.

 

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Defending EU style 'democracy'.

Zelensky says he ‘doesn’t care’ if claim used to oust Odessa mayor is fake​

The Ukrainian leader removed Gennady Trukhanov from his post after he was accused of holding Russian citizenship

Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky, Washington, DC, October 17, 2025. © Andrew Harnik / Getty Images


Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has said he is unconcerned about whether the evidence used to oust former Odessa Mayor Gennady Trukhanov was fake.
Zelensky fired the mayor of the southern city earlier this month over accusations that he holds a Russian passport. The allegations have reportedly since been shown to contain false information, with the passport number that Ukrainian investigators claimed was Trukhanov’s actually belonging to a woman from Siberia who recently crossed the Russian border.
Zelensky defended his decision to journalists on Tuesday, admitting he did not question the evidence presented by investigators.
”How many passports he has, which are real, which are fake, who made them? Frankly speaking, I do not care,” Zelensky said, as quoted by Ukrinform. “Is it 100% true that he is a Russian citizen? [Investigators] tell me ‘yes’.”
Trukhanov was one of several people stripped of Ukrainian citizenship earlier this month under Zelensky’s decree targeting individuals accused of secretly holding Russian passports. His administration has since been replaced by one appointed directly by the central government.

Trukhanov has said the allegations against him are based on fabrications and that he is the victim of a political purge. In an interview following his removal, he compared his situation to the Stalin-era repressions, arguing that there is no viable path for appeal under Zelensky’s rule.
International media outlets have also criticized the move. The Spectator described it as “a step too far,” suggesting it served as a warning to other local leaders that dissent would not be tolerated.
Reports have pointed to growing friction between Zelensky and prominent mayors, including Kiev’s Vitaly Klitschko, who accused the Ukrainian leader of consolidating power and edging toward a dictatorship.
Zelensky’s presidential term expired last year, but he continues to govern under martial law, after declining to transfer authority to the speaker of parliament as required by the Ukrainian Constitution.

Must defend democracy after all! The EU’s idea of it anyway….

 

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Excellent news.

Putin says Russia tested Poseidon nuclear-capable torpedo

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia had tested a Poseidon nuclear-capable super torpedo and that it had been a great success.

www.rte.ie