Yasmina
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![Once again, the Orbán regime has managed to turn a routine diplomatic procedure into provocation. President Zelenskyy: “What the [Hungarian] delegation is doing here is unknown to me. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs told me that, well, some people arrived. They characterised it as, well..." Ihor Zhovkva: “A private trip?” President Zelenskyy: “Probably, yes. We did not invite them." Hungarian FM Szijjártó’s immediate leap to call President Zelenskyy a "liar" is rich. Documents prove that Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs explicitly labeled the proposed visit dates as "unacceptable" and requested that new dates be negotiated through proper channels. The documents provided to TSN tell the real story: * The Hungarian Note: Hungary sent a request for a visit on specific dates. * The Ukrainian Response: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine explicitly stated those dates were unacceptable and asked to negotiate new ones. In the world of adult diplomacy, when a country says "the dates don't work," you don't just show up anyway and then act shocked when the President of the host nation says he didn't invite you. Showing up when the door is explicitly closed isn't a "state visit". It’s a private trip with delusions of grandeur. Zelenskyy’s dismissive tone isn't "lying”. It’s a reflection of the fact that Ukraine is fighting a war and doesn't have time for uncoordinated drop-ins from a neighbour that spent the last years blocking aid. And if Orbán actually cared about Hungarian-Ukrainian relations, he’d show up himself. Instead, he sends a B-team to play games with schedules, then cries "fake news" when he's called out. Hungary requested a meeting with Denys Shmyhal (the Prime Minister) or the Ukrainian Energy Minister. Sending a Deputy to meet a Prime Minister is a breach of protocol seen as a deliberate sign of disrespect. It’s pathetic, it’s petty, and it’s exactly what we’ve come to expect from Budapest.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2031844708906123548/amplify_video_thumb/2031844643990900736/img/7SekVqVMGTqboe40.jpg)
![At the 2026 Munich Security Conference, Hungarian opposition leader Péter Magyar introduced his prospective Foreign Minister, Anita Orbán. Magyar was quick to clarify that her name is purely a coincidence. Without missing a beat, Polish PM Donald Tusk—no stranger to difficult namesakes—replied: “No worries, my name is Donald." Péter Magyar: “It is a great pleasure to see you. [Introducing his team] My colleague and future Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary, Anita Orbán.” Anita Orbán: “Nice to meet you.” Péter Magyar: “The name is only a coincidence. Orbán.” Donald Tusk: “My name is Donald!” Anita Orbán: “Exactly!”](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2023257354666439138/amplify_video_thumb/2023257291907342336/img/dZCKtZQR58sx50Ko.jpg)
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“Basically, you're done, Trump. You're done, Hegseth. It won't be long before you're politically thrown down that dark, deep hole.” - Lieutenant Colonel Malcom Ritchie (retired) from the U.S. Army Reserve. “…. And I'm here today, not as a candidate, making that disclaimer. I am here to express my outrage at the meeting in Quantico, Virginia between Hegseth, Trump, and all of the senior officers in the United States military and the senior NCO corps. Those generals, Admirals, and senior NCOs sat there in stone face silence, listening to the most outrageous speeches ever made in United States military history by the Secretary of Defense and the President of the United States. Secretary of Defense on his this ridiculous rant. Trying to take to school, Generals, Admirals, senior NCOs with 10 times the leadership ability, the education and the experience. that the failed Major Hech could ever begin to understand. And then they have to listen to the cognitively declined President of the United States who I would now name as dictator of the United States. tell all this audience that they will be expected to wage war against the American people. That's exactly what Trump said. So don't get on here and try to tell me that he didn't say it. training grounds in American cities. What's that mean? They're going to go in locked and loaded into American cities, American neighborhoods and use American citizens as pop-up targets on a live fire training. range, This is absolutely astounding. Abuse of power which makes by my estimation Donald Trump a domestic enemy of the Constitution. Because my oath is to the Constitution and don't you think for one minute, Mr. Trump, that there aren't millions of other veterans and retirees that feel exactly the same way. We are enraged, we are beyond enraged, and we will protest peacefully. And we will go out and vote for the candidates of our choice in the 2026 midterm election, which you better not even try to stop. If you try to stop that by force, that's the nightmare scenario. And I'm not saying by violence, I'm saying politically. Basically, you're done, Trump. You're done, Hegseth. It won't be long before you're politically thrown down that dark, deep hole. But don't think it's not going to cause a lot of trauma on the American people, as they clutch to the roots of the hole on the way down, trying to survive something that they cannot possibly survive because this nation is a republic and it will not fall to a fascist regime.”
Yasmina1,085,191 views • 12 days ago
In this powerful monologue, Joe Scarborough proves that Trump and his cronies acting as cheerleaders for putin are no different from the Nazi sympathisers of the 1930s. It’s a chilling, crystal-clear wake-up call about what happens when leaders trade American democracy for a dictator's favour. Joe Scarborough: “… just peeling what putin has had a collection of useful idiots across America do now for the past five years. I really I really don't say this often in American politics. but when you're defending vladimir putin, an ex KGB agent who is committing war crimes by the day, I'm not sure how you sleep at night. And this phenomenon though, has historical parallels. It was 89 years ago this month in October 1937, that the former king of England walked up the steps of Adolf Hitler's mountain retreat in Bavaria. The Duke of Windsor had given up the throne less than a year earlier, but he toured German factories, inspected the SS and was photographed greeting the Führer. Time Magazine reported that Hitler gave the Duke a Nazi salute as they parted and Edward returned that Nazi salute. Later he told friends that Britain shouldn't fight Hitler, the war should not start. Winston Churchill had to actually send him to the Bahamas to keep him away from his new friend in Berlin. But the Duke wasn't alone, just like Donald Trump isn't alone. Here at home, Charles Lindbergh, an American hero who accepted the medal of freedom from Hermann Goering in 1938, went on to lead America First. And in a 1941 speech in Des Moines, he blamed Jews and the British for pushing America toward war. Even FDR's US Ambassador to Britain, Joseph Kennedy, predicted democracy is finished in England. His appeasement and his lack of moral alarm cost Kennedy his job. In Britain, aristocrats like the Astors and Lord Halifax thought Hitler was a man they could do business with. Does that sound familiar? Sounded so respectable, trade, stability, money, peace in our time. History remembers them now as morally vacuous opportunists who looked at a tyrant who was devouring his neighbours, the only thing they saw, a business partner. The parallels with Trump are too on point. Now on Friday, Donald Trump got on the phone with vladimir putin who always plays him when they get on the phone and what happened? He lifted sanctions on the Russian diesel deal, he did it three weeks after Republicans had forced him to sign a Russia sanctions bill in honour of Lindsey Graham. The White House says his gift to putin will lower prices at the pump, but it won't. The first shipment is only about 2.2 million barrels and America burns through more than that every day. It's not going to lower gas prices in America. But it will help putin kill innocence in Ukraine, a country Trump has always hated. Trump's four billion dollar gift to the man he kowtows to every day will buy missiles, drones, and glide bombs that will keep terrorising and killing Ukrainians who are fighting for their country's freedom and their children's lives and yes, our freedom. A bipartisan group of senators including Susan Collins wrote in a statement Sunday that the United States should not provide putin with a financial lifeline while Russia continues to kill Ukrainian civilians. But Trump's aping of putin’s talking points, they just keep getting worse. With this weak president attacking Ukrainian freedom fighters and perversely calling for new leadership in Kyiv. We do need new leadership, Mr. President, but not in Ukraine. Donald, I've known you a long time and I know you don't read history, so let me tell you how this story ends. The Duke of Windsor ended up a footnote, a cautionary tale in a fancy suit forever assigned to the dustbin of British history. And your time to finally do the right thing in Ukraine, Mr. President, it's running out. Stop bowing down to putin. And start doing your job. 1/2
Yasmina82,875 views • 5 days ago
Le Pen: “Ukraine is part of Russia's sphere of influence, it's a fact. Just like Canada is part of America's sphere of influence.” As French voters head toward a crucial election where Marine Le Pen is projected as a frontrunner, it is vital to revisit her track record of appeasement and dangerous miscalculations. This archival 2017 interview lays bare her alignment with putin, where she casually dismissed Ukraine as part of Russia's "sphere of influence," trivialised illegal territorial aggression as mere things that "happen”, and praised putin’s brutal intervention in Syria. While putin’s war machine was devastating cities and killing thousands, Le Pen championed the dismantling of NATO and absolved Moscow of any military threat to Europe. Watch this clip to see for yourself how the far-right leader historically downplayed the ambitions of an aggressor and ask yourself whether France can afford to entrust its future to someone who excused tyranny in the name of dirty money. Journalist Emily Maitlis: “Do you think the West has misunderstood President putin?” Le pen: “ I think the previous American administration put the Berlin Wall on wheels and pushed it back to Russia's borders. That was in the interest of the US. Was it in the interest of the EU? The answer is no. We have no reason to enter into a new Cold War with Russia. But indeed, the sphere of influence of Russia, that's going to increase a bit. The Baltic States too. Bah if you want, we made deals with Russia after World War II and those deals were reneged on, because in recent years the US kept arming countries on Russia's border through NATO. So it was felt by Russia as a form of hostility. And I'm not a supporter of mounting conflict, hostility, of warmongering. These are provocations that naturally cause a reaction. Well, Ukraine is part of Russia's sphere of influence, it's a fact. Just like Canada is part of America's sphere of influence.” Journalist Emily Maitlis: “If the Russian military made an incursion into the Baltic States, or again into Ukraine, would France protect them?” Le Pen: “You want war at all cost? What is your problem? You want to go to war? You like war? You want war? You want conflict? You want us to start World War III? At the moment no one wants to go to war with anyone. I'm happy to go into all the hypotheses, but no one is going to war with anyone. There was a territorial conflict with Ukraine. These things happen. Now it has to be resolved diplomatically. And I think France's voice has weight, as long as France is France, not just a region of the EU. But honestly if you're trying to say that Russia is a military danger to European countries, I think you're mistaken in your analysis.” Journalist Emily Maitlis: “What should be France's commitment towards NATO?” Le Pen: “I think France should leave NATO Allied Command. And I agree with Donald Trump when he says NATO is obsolete. Because NATO was created to fight the USSR. Today there is no USSR. I know it's uncomfortable for some, but there's no more USSR. There's Russia, which doesn't deserve to be treated with prejudice. It hasn't led any campaigns against European countries, or against the US.” Journalist Emily Maitlis: “Has putin done more good or harm to the world?” Le Pen: “First we need to ask whether he did more harm than good to Russia. Russia is going broadly in the right direction. It has improved its economy, although it's still fragile, but it has improved its economy and in any case what I notice is that putin’s government must be pretty popular with Russians given that it's constantly being re-elected. What more can say? Has he done good? Well, when he intervened in Syria against ISIS, yes, I think it was positive. Yes.” (This interview dates from March 2017. It is from an appearance Marine Le Pen made on the BBC political program Newsnight, interviewed by journalist Emily Maitlis during her 2017 French presidential campaign.)
Yasmina775,443 views • 1 month ago
Journalist Alex Raufoglu, Chief Washington Correspondent for the Kyiv Post asks a dead-simple, completely fair question: why are we pressuring Ukraine—the country being brutally invaded—to stop hitting Russian oil refineries, instead of putting the pressure on the actual invader? Instead of a straight answer, we get a ridiculous attempt from Marco Rubio to play the "both sides" game. It is exactly the kind of weak, spineless talk we constantly hear from Trump and his corrupt cronies who would always rather appease putin than actually stand up to him. Let's get one thing straight: putting Ukraine’s strategic strikes on Russian oil money in the same category as Russia’s barbaric, murderous bombings of Ukrainian homes, civilians, and civic infrastructure is completely outrageous. Human lives and innocent families being destroyed is not even remotely the same thing as a dip in oil profits or a headache at the gas pump. Ukraine is hitting those Russian refineries for one reason: to cut off the cash putin uses to slaughter their people, so they can defend themselves and finally stop this war. Alex Raufoglu: “Ukraine says its refinery strikes inside Russia is aimed at targeting revenues that are main income source for Russia. Why lean on the country that is being invaded and an invader?” Marco Rubio: “What is that? I'm sorry, the...” Alex Raufoglu: “The US asks Ukraine to stop targeting Russian energy, you know, sites…” Marco Rubio: “Well, there's two energy...” Alex Raufoglu: “rather than asking Russia to...” Marco Rubio: “Well, I mean, how do you know we haven't asked Russia to stop? So, so look, I mean, when you talk to energy, for the Russian side, the energy strikes they're facing are refineries and their oil and gas. For the Ukrainian side, energy means their electrical grid. And going into winter with a fear of losing the electric grid. So when you talk about energy, it means two things to different people. And what complicates it further is that energy strikes are at the core of the tactical pursuit that both sides have. The Ukrainians are inflicting pain on the Russians by hitting their energy sector, which is a revenue source. The Russian side is inflicting pain on the Ukrainian side by targeting their electric grid, especially as we head into winter. So, there's the challenge, is that both sides have identified energy as a strategic objective of their war aims. But it's having a global impact in the case of oil and gas, and it's having a very real and immediate impact on the life in Ukraine, especially these threats to it. So that's why it's not easy overnight to just say let's reach an agreement. But it's something that I think is worth investing in, trying to make that happen, because I think it would be beneficial to the world and beneficial to both countries. I think if you ask President Zelenskyy, he would argue that the ability to protect his electric grid is at the core of their interests, and we'd, you know, so that's something that we can help achieve through a deal. And obviously the Russian side is facing strikes it has not seen before deep in Russian territory and against key industries. So that's what makes making a deal on that limited basis difficult. But it also is the reason why it's so important that we try. So we'll try, and I think we're prepared to play a positive role if we can in making that come about.”
Yasmina156,456 views • 1 month ago
“Rules have value only if they bind everyone, especially those powerful enough to break them...” - Czech President Petr Pavel. President Petr Pavel, delivered an absolute masterclass on how to handle the world's biggest bullies. He completely shreds putin’s murderous, unhinged invasion of Ukraine, and then turns right around to put Xi’s feet to the fire for quietly enabling the whole thing while pretending to be neutral. He basically calls out both regimes for holding global security hostage and acting like international law doesn't apply to them. Pavel: “Rules have value only if they bind everyone, especially those powerful enough to break them. When rules are cast aside, raw power fills the vacuum. A world dominated by great power competition is a volatile world, less able to address the most pressing challenges of our time. It is a world where a single spark can ignite a fire. Instead, we should insist that with greater power comes greater responsibility. Responsibility in the use of force, responsibility to exercise restraint, but also responsibility to use one's influence to prevent force from becoming necessary in the first place. This applies particularly to permanent members of the UN Security Council. China has the power, influence and responsibility to help prevent conflicts, to escalate tensions and contribute to ending wars. This includes using its influence to help bring Russia's aggression against Ukraine to an end. That aggression was launched and continues to be waged by another permanent member of the UN Security Council, Russia, in violation of the UN Charter and fundamental principles of international law. Russia's aggression continues to inflict enormous suffering on the Ukrainian people. Civilians and civilian infrastructure continue to be attacked indiscriminately. And risks are growing day by day. Russia's aggressive posture poses a direct threat to European security as a whole. The immediacy of that threat was starkly illustrated by the recent attempted Russian drone attack on Leipzig Halle Airport in Germany, only 150 kilometers from the borders of Czech Republic.”
Yasmina93,231 views • 1 month ago
Poland won't applaud Trump’s vanity project, the Nobel Peace Prize. Today a major diplomatic row broke out between the U.S. and Poland because Włodzimierz Czarzasty (the Speaker of the Sejm) took a very public stand against Donald Trump. The catalyst was a formal request from U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson and Israeli Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, asking international leaders to co-sign a nomination for Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. Czarzasty flatly refused. U.S. Ambassador Tom Rose responded by blacklisting Czarzasty, declaring that the U.S. Embassy would have "no further dealings, contacts, or communications" with him effective immediately. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk joined the fray, telling the U.S. Ambassador that "allies should respect, not lecture, each other. Roman Giertych then wrote a letter (see in the comments), escalating the rhetoric by comparing the demand for the Nobel Prize to the vanity of the Emperor Nero. Here is what Włodzimierz Czarzasty said: Włodzimierz Czarzasty: “Building new platforms like the 'Peace Council' by the United States is, in my opinion, deceptive. We must strengthen the European Union, NATO, the UN, and the WHO. Our security lies there. President Trump, in my opinion, destabilises these organisations by representing a policy of force and conducting transactional politics. This often breaks principles, values, and international law. His interpretation of history—for example, regarding the participation of Polish soldiers on missions—and his instrumental treatment of other territories, like Greenland, means I will not support the Nobel request for President Trump. He does not deserve it."
Yasmina744,584 views • 8 months ago
French president Emmanuel Macron is saying what everyone’s thinking: Europeans can't let a monster in a bunker in Moscow or a real estate tycoon on a golf course in Florida decide if Europe lives or dies. "As all the allies, we have to be the one to negotiate this new architecture of security for Europe the day after, because our geography will not change. We will live with Russia at the same place, and the Europeans at the same place. And I don’t want this negotiation to be organised by somebody else."
Yasmina573,607 views • 8 months ago
Rachel Maddow, an American television news host, political commentator, and author. (MSNBC): “I mean literally they wrote the plan for what they want Ukraine to do and the White House put it on its letterhead and said here it is, you better do it. And, you know, Russia is a podunk country, they're a huge landmass, large largest physical country in the world. They've got an economy like the size of Italy, right? They've got a cleptocratic sclerotic government run by a guy who's never going to leave until he dies. The idea that we work for him, that we work for them, is so humiliating, and is such an abject failure on the part of Trump in terms of his weakness. I don't know what putin has on him, but he works for putin, and it's an embarrassment to this country.”
Yasmina92,194 views • 1 month ago
“I told him directly to his face that the Russian government must end this war.” - German Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil. Lars Klingbeil delivered a blistering rebuke at the G20, tearing into Russia's brutal war of aggression and sharply criticising the Trump administration for rolling out the red carpet for Moscow's finance minister at the G20. From refusing to pose for a "normalisation" photo to confronting the Russian delegation directly to their faces, Klingbeil made it clear that diplomatic niceties are over. Key remarks: On confronting the Russian finance minister directly: "I told him directly to his face that the Russian government must end this war, what the consequences of this war are, and that we stand clearly on the side of Ukraine.” On refusing to participate in the official photo: “I made it clear among Europeans in the preliminary meeting that I will not stand with the Russian finance minister for a joint photo." On the U.S. hosting and the attempt at normalisation: “…the signal of welcoming the Russian finance minister here is one that I do perceive as irritating, because I actually would have wished for clarity from the American side... that he is not received here like a normal guest." On rejecting business-as-usual with Russia: “One cannot return to normality... there is no normal situation right now with Russia, least of all with those who are responsible for this brutal, war of aggression in violation of international law." On the tone of the meetings:"Sometimes these meetings are too diplomatic, and therefore my words may have startled one or the other in the room, but it was important to me to make it that clear." Watch the full statement in the comments: : DWS News - FULL REMARKS: German Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil Speaks at G20 Meeting.
Yasmina119,038 views • 1 month ago
Brilliant! “Trump, the peacemaker.” - Jonathan Pie “Back to you, Sophie. Thank you. It's interesting, isn't it, that Trump signed this deal in Versailles, you know, the location of another famous humiliating, total capitulation. But you know, of course, Trump will spin this as a massive success because he's got form in declaring he's won when clearly he hasn't. But this war was a success in the same way that paying $14 million to have large chunks of blue paint floating in an algae-infested reflecting pool was money well spent. The truth is, the United States has rarely looked weaker, and Iran has rarely looked stronger, having now worked out that if anyone doesn't do exactly what they want them to, they'll just close the Strait of Hormuz, and they've got the whole world by the bullbags. We went from week one: "I will win. Victory will be easier than that time I kidnapped the president of Venezuela." To week two: "I won." To week three: "Why aren't you helping me win?" To week four: "I don't need your help to win, but if you don't help me win, I'm going to destroy NATO." Week five: "If you don't let me win, I'll annihilate an entire civilization." It's quite a feat to give the Iranian regime the moral high ground, but luckily, Donald Trump shattered the illusion of American morality a long time ago. Week six: "We're winning, and to prove it, here's an AI picture of me dressed as Jesus.” Week seven: "The Pope is a soy-filled, woke, Guardian reader." Week eight: "I'm getting bored now." Weeks nine through to 14: "Really bored now, and I've got ballrooms to build and cage fights on the White House lawn to organise." And four months later, victory! Thank you very much, where's my peace prize? And if the rest of the G7 can just clear up the mess and pay the bill, that would be great. The outcome was always inevitable, but you know, it's been fun to watch. Most of Trump's posts on Truth Social around the conflict have sounded less like the leader of the free world and more like a 14-year-old boy who's the only one left in the class not to have fingered anyone. One particular highlight being on Easter Sunday, when Trump went on to Truth Social to write, "Open the fucking strait, you crazy bastards." Which are the words of a true diplomat with supreme control of the situation. He then spent some time at the White House Easter Egg Roll, where he gave a speech to a bunch of bemused primary school children about how he's thinking of starting World War III in Iran and Joe Biden's auto-pen. But this conflict hasn't all been plain sailing. Trump got really angry with the UK, and Spain, and Canada, Australia, Italy—in fact, anyone who raised any objections to this gross example of imperial overreach was branded a coward. It was as if he felt like we should all be grateful that his latest piece of American expansionism didn't involve making Canada the 51st state or carpet bombing the sleepy village of Greenland. Perhaps if you want your allies to be good allies, then maybe start treating us like allies. Don't bully your allies, or slam illegal tariffs on your allies, or interfere with their elections by overtly promoting far-right parties across Europe whilst hurling insults at our leaders and threatening to invade Allied sovereign territory, and then demand we come to your aid just because you started a war because one, Benjamin Netanyahu told you to, and two, to distract from the fact that you appear in the Epstein files more times than Jesus is mentioned in the Bible. But at least someone did all right out of this whole thing. Well, for me, the highlight of the whole shit show was the $2.1 billion in bets placed minutes before presidential announcements about the war in Iran. 1/2
Yasmina270,016 views • 4 months ago
Leonid Ivashov, a heavy-hitting retired Russian Colonel General, recently went rogue and started saying out loud what most people in the Kremlin only dare to whisper. He didn't hold back, basically calling things out for being a mess. The Big Picture: "We're in Trouble" Ivashov starts by basically saying Russia is a mess right now. He’s not sugarcoating it: we’re lonely on the world stage (only a handful of countries even talk to us at the UN), and we’ve lost our influence over our neighbors. He even compares putin’s era to the start of the Soviet collapse under Gorbachev—lots of talk, but everything is breaking. 1. The "Broken Stuff" List He goes through a laundry list of things that aren't working: * Planes: We can't build our own passenger jets. We’re basically cannibalising old Boeings for parts. * Space: He tells a wild story about how the last working manned launchpad at Baikonur was accidentally torched because of poor maintenance. Now, Russia effectively can't send people to space. * Food: He warns that the food in the shops is becoming toxic garbage filled with palm oil because the economy is so squeezed. * Corruption: He mentions that 11 trillion rubles were allegedly stolen by the Ministry of Defense. He points out that almost every big corrupt official is a member of the ruling party. 2. The "Spectacle" (The Press Conference) He calls putin’s annual "Direct Line" a brilliant theatrical performance. The Setup: Everything was staged—the suit, the tie, even the camera angles to hide putin’s nervous leg twitching. The Script: He says the questions were totally rehearsed. putin knew what was coming. The few "real" questions from foreign journalists were just dodged with "whataboutism" or jokes. The "Reality Gap": While putin was smiling and talking about how great the economy is, the "ticker tape" on the screen was showing real people from the regions begging for water, roads, and enough money to buy medicine. 3. The War (Tactics vs. Strategy) Ivashov is really unimpressed with the military leadership. * Small Thinking: He says putin is stuck at a "tactical" level—bragging about taking one tiny village or a single house. The NATO Gap: He admits that Ukraine, backed by NATO tech and satellite intel, is hitting Russia where it hurts (oil refineries and airfields), while Russia is just throwing shells at the problem. 4. The Demographic "Cliff" He’s really worried that Russians are simply dying out. The birth rate is way below what’s needed to survive, and putin’s excuse is just "well, it's a global trend." Ivashov thinks that's a cop-out for a country that’s literally shrinking. The Verdict Ivashov ends with looking pretty defeated. He basically says: “Look, I’ve been a professor, a general, and a student of geopolitics for decades. I watched this whole 4-hour show, and I didn't see a leader, a commander, or a protector of the people. I just saw a guy living in a fairy tale while the rest of the country is struggling to survive on 16,000 rubles a month." Basically, his message is: The "Spectacle" looks great on TV, but you can't eat a stage play, and you can't fly a museum piece to space. (The transcript for this segment of Russian retired General Ivashov’s video where he critiques the "staged spectacle" of putin’s press conference you will find in the comments.)
Yasmina555,367 views • 10 months ago
“Russia has lost everything. Everything. The war is lost." - *Andrey Zubov. "The war is lost. You can say that to your opponent. The war is already lost in all directions. It's lost on the battlefield. They didn't go anywhere, not to Kharkiv, not to Kyiv, especially not to Lviv. They didn't go anywhere. It's lost on the diplomatic level. All civilised countries have turned away from Russia. Just recently, Japan sent a large tranche to help Ukraine. And as for Europe, I'm not even talking. As for Trump, well, it's a strange phenomenon that the Americans themselves will probably be ashamed of later. But nevertheless, there's a very powerful movement in America in support of Ukraine, both in the Republican and Democratic parties, just in society. Russia, once a truly great power, a member of the G8, became a satellite of China, which is now a raw materials appendage of China. Its allies, it was on the threshold of NATO. In 2002, the issue of joining NATO was already being discussed very seriously, and the same Prime Minister Kasyanov was for joining NATO, and putin said that it was possible, we should think about it. Well, now what NATO? Now the allies are North Korea, which journalists in Russia have also been poking fun at for so many years, about Kim Jong-un and so on. But it turned out that it wasn't worth poking fun at, that North Korean troops are fighting side-by-side with the Russians on the Ukrainian front. This is Iran with these crazy ayatollahs, it turned out that these crazy ayatollahs there provide weapons and they're being used actively. And finally, China itself, which also, if we were delighted, then for its economic successes, but certainly not for its totalitarian system. And now China is the main pillar of the putin regime and putin’s totalitarian system. So, naturally, Russia has suffered a humanitarian defeat, a mass of cultural people have left, I would say, the cultural elite of Russia, the Russian youth. Well, and old people like me, we left, we don't want anything to do with this regime. Russia has lost hundreds of thousands of its people, and with a low birth rate and a poor level of education, it's very sensitive. Russia has lost its culture, because the level of education has dropped sharply and, as a matter of fact, Russia has lost everything. Everything. The war is lost." *Andrey Zubov: A prominent Russian historian and political scientist who was famously dismissed from MGIMO (Moscow State Institute of International Relations) in 2014 after criticising the annexation of Crimea.
Yasmina513,537 views • 9 months ago
“Sergey, I know you're listening. Tell your boss: enough is enough.”-Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski at the UN Security Council. Radosław Sikorski 🇵🇱🇪🇺 just delivered an absolute masterclass in dismantling the Russian delegation at the UN Security Council. While Russia's leadership is openly panicking and clinging to a disastrous, senseless colonial war that has achieved absolutely nothing, Sikorski brilliantly exposes their pathetic weakness. He thoroughly humiliates the desperate regime, pointing out that they are rapidly running out of resources and troops to fuel an invasion that has already killed or wounded 1.5 million Russians. By contrasting Russia's staggering battlefield failures against the overwhelming economic dominance of Poland, Europe, and NATO, Sikorski delivers a devastating and much-needed reality check to a delusional government that simply cannot win. Sikorski: “Russia is escalating because Russia's leadership is panicking. After more than four years of a senseless colonial war, Vladimir Putin has achieved nothing. He is running out of troops and resources and needs a pretext to mobilize. His unnecessary war has killed or wounded one and a half million Russians. Millions of Ukrainians and other Europeans are increasingly in danger. At any moment, Putin might try to provoke a NATO country and spread the war further, as we have heard from others. To the representatives of the Russian Federation, I have this to say. You have been trying to conquer Donbas for over 12 years and Kyiv for over four. You have been stopped by heroic Ukraine, a country with one-tenth of Russia's GDP. But Poland has almost half of your GDP. Europe has ten times your GDP. NATO has 25 times your GDP. You can still kill a lot of people, but you cannot win. You can stop this imperial war of choice at any time. Don't endanger Europe and the world any further. Stop destroying Russia's future. Sergey, I know you're listening. Tell your boss: enough is enough. Thank you.”
Yasmina62,031 views • 1 month ago
Serbian General officially cleared Ukraine of any involvement in the recent plot to attack Serbia’s gas pipelines. The Serbian military’s top brass, General Đuro Jovanić, stepped up to the mic to give the official version of why their gas lines almost went up in smoke. Summary of Serbian General Jovanić’s address to a general audience: * Is Ukraine responsible? No, he explicitly denies their involvement. * Are they being framed? No, he claims the idea that Serbia is "planting" Ukrainian evidence is fake news. * Where did the bombs come from? He claims they are American-made. * Who is the suspect? A "militarily trained" individual from a migrant group. Full transcript in the comments.
Yasmina340,463 views • 6 months ago
PANIC IN MOSCOW! PUTIN’S AXIS IS BREAKING: Sergey Karnaukhov thinks Russia is next. You know things are bad when even the Kremlin’s loudest cheerleaders stop pretending everything is 'going according to plan.' Take a look at Sergey Karnaukhov, prominent Russian propagandist, TV presenter, and regular contributor to the Solovyov Live channel. Usually, he’s busy telling you how the West is collapsing, but suddenly he realised that Russia’s 'Axis of Friends' is looking more like a 'League of Lost Causes.' First Assad, then Maduro’s struggles, and now he’s watching Tehran fold like a card table. He’s not just worried about Iran. He is terrified that the dominoes are finally falling toward Moscow. Listen to him drop the tough-guy act and start asking the one question they aren't allowed to answer: 'Are we next?' “So they did everything not to escalate. Well, they've done it now. Why hasn't a single US ship sunk yet? I have a question. Don't they have normal missiles? They have everything. Afraid of escalation? Well, they'll all be killed now. That's all. So if Pezeshkian is only concerned with how to hide himself, then there is no place for him there. But what's happening now, we see. Where are the statements of these people? Where is the vaunted IRGC? Where is Khamenei's statement? They're all gone. That's it. This is a country that is falling apart before our eyes. Again, I'm taking a pro-Russian position. I'm assessing the perspective of what's going to happen. I understand very well what the next problem will be. For us, first of all. One question worries me: when will they take us on? Or have they already? And do we understand that the talk about Iran is also a talk about Russia? They will treat us the same way now, hitting Russia even harder. We will return to this, if not today, then on Monday for sure.”
Yasmina354,814 views • 7 months ago
“We are Europe, not you.” - Russian chief propagandist, Solovyov in an interview with the Swiss Russian apologist Köppel. “Scottish, Irish, different roots, and they all worked for a Russian Empire. And let me remind you that Catherine the Great was not of Russian origin, like at all, and that in the blood of Russian Tsar Nicholas the Second, there was only 1/128th of a Russian blood. Of course. We are Europe, not you. You betrayed all that Europe of the 19th Century believed in. You made a wrong turn. And that's the problem. At first, you get rid of real Christian values, then you get rid of your culture. You forgot your great authors of the 19th. You betrayed your roots, and that's why you hate us. Because in us you see what Europe should be. But as I mentioned before, we're aliens to you. And that's why you do not understand when we remember our mutual history. And when we look at Kremlin, you can see part of Milanese influence. And when you look at Saint Petersburg, and you understand, oh yeah, that's when Perron decided to rebuild Paris, and that's what inspired him. And when you look at Moscow, and you see a lot of signs of Europe that you've lost.”
Yasmina141,558 views • 3 months ago
“I think we are one big step into dictatorship already.” Conservative historian Robert Kagan. Robert Kagan: "Well, I think we are one big step into dictatorship already. It's not clear to me that any institution in the United States is really prepared to stand up to Donald Trump. It seems the only people who are willing to stand up to Donald Trump are average American citizens in Minneapolis and elsewhere, and god bless them for that, but the US Congress, both parties, are unwilling to really fight Trump. The Republicans have become the party of dictatorship. So I think we are one deep foot into dictatorship, and I am worried, as I have said and others have been pointing out, about whether we will even have free and fair elections in 2026, let alone in 2028. I think Trump has a plan to disrupt those elections and I don't think he's willing to allow Democrats to take control of one or both houses, as could happen in a free election."
Yasmina328,572 views • 8 months ago
A Slovak student wearing a Ukrainian ribbon refuses to shake hands with president Pellegrini. A Slovak student receiving an award at the presidential palace for placing in a mathematics competition has refused to shake hands with Slovak President Peter Pellegrini. The student, Simon Omaník, was awarded a bronze medal at the Central European Mathematics Olympiad. When the minister suggested that Omaník shake hands with President Pellegrini, who was standing next to him, the student declined – even though the president had already extended his hand. After the awkward moment, Omaník, Drucker and Pellegrini posed together for a group photo. A large ribbon in the colours of the Ukrainian flag 🇺🇦 can be seen on the student’s jacket.💪🏽
Yasmina747,968 views • 1 year ago
“And over time, Americans will come to miss the old NATO.” - Fareed Zakaria. In his recent show, Fareed Zakaria laid out a pretty sobering reality check about what’s actually happening to NATO. Trump claims he’s saving Americans money by forcing Europe to spend more, but that’s a total myth. European defense spending is at its highest in decades, yet America’s own budget is ballooning to a massive $1.5 trillion. As Zakaria notes, "American defense spending has never been determined by the needs of NATO"—it’s about Washington’s obsession with dominating the globe, from the Middle East to space. The U.S. used to rely on the "enormous advantages" in Europe—dozens of bases and the ability to project power anywhere. Now, because Trump acts like an unreliable, sometimes "hostile" partner, European nations are realising they can't afford to be "differential" to Washington anymore. It’s not just policy, it’s the constant, chaotic outbursts. When Trump threatens to treat a country like Denmark, a core ally, as a real estate deal, it forces everyone to wake up. Zakaria highlights that Europeans now fear Trump might "withhold software upgrades or spare parts" for their own weapons just because he’s in a bad mood. The most chilling point Zakaria makes is that the post-1945 order worked because it stopped European countries from having to act like traditional, competitive "great powers" again. By breaking that system, Trump is inadvertently waking up the old ghosts of European rivalry. As Zakaria concludes, the U.S. is entering a new, dangerous chapter: "Over time Americans will come to miss the old NATO not because it was fair but because it was the most successful security system the world has ever known". Watching the U.S. trade its global influence for "reality TV" politics isn't just confusing—it’s starting to look like a historic mistake that leaves the rest of us having to plan for a world where we can’t count on America at all.
Yasmina135,594 views • 3 months ago