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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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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.)
Yasmina772,155 views • 11 days 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.
Yasmina118,763 views • 7 days ago
Why wait for Moscow state TV when you can just invite them directly into the Oval Office to ask the questions you're too compromised to pitch yourself? Now, the Kremlin’s narrative gets hand-delivered straight to the White House press corps, giving the Russian dictator a tailor-made megaphone right inside the Oval Office. Reporter: “Mister Président, thank you. On Ukraine, something you've said for a long time is that the war should have never happened, and something you used to say, which was proven correct, was that the Biden administration, along with much of the mainstream media, was lying about the number of Ukrainians who were dying in the war. And now we're seeing they're having a shortage of young men. There's these horrific videos coming out of Ukraine where they're kidnapping them off the streets, their mothers, their wives are being thrown to the ground and sprayed with Mace while their loved ones get taken away. I'm wondering, have you seen these videos? Because the mainstream media is also not reporting on those, and if you haven't seen them, could I send them to Steven Cheung, another member of your staff, to show you” Trump: “And I'll put them out. But I know about the videos. I heard about them very strongly. Look, it's a war that should have never happened. If the election weren't rigged in 2020, that war would have never happened.”
Yasmina35,534 views • 5 days 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."
Yasmina744,339 views • 7 months 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
Yasmina269,547 views • 2 months ago
François Hollande, former president of France, unmasks Marine Le Pen's sneaky, backdoor Frexit strategy, exposing how her party secretly wants to wreck the EU while pretending to play nice with it." “And others, and others, Madame Le Pen, who says, "We won't even pay our contribution to the European Union." All of this ultimately without saying it, without admitting it, wanting to leave the European Union. They don't say it because today even the most anti-European are sort of glad that the euro exists, that the single market exists, that there's the possibility of an industrial policy, that for ecology it's still better to tackle it together, that we absolutely must find an agreement with Germany, because one of the desolations we have today with Europe's powerlessness is that France and Germany no longer talk to each other, no longer understand each other. However, there is no Europe that can move forward if there isn't this fundamental agreement between France and Germany. Whatever the leaders, it wasn't that simple for François Mitterrand to be with Helmut Schmidt, it wasn't necessarily easy for Nicolas Sarkozy with Madame Merkel. It's never easy with Madame Merkel, but at the same time if Madame Merkel hadn't been there, if we hadn't succeeded together in saving Greece and also finding a solution for the eurozone, where would we be today? So those are the stakes, and that's why I think your comparison with François Mitterrand is useful. Well, the stake is also to continue Europe's march forward and to go even further, including on defense. Because that is going to be a big question: how are we going to protect ourselves today between Russian aggression, between an American president who prefers North Korea to South Korea, who puts Canada and Europe under commercial pressure, who wages a war in Iran without knowing how to end it? Well yes, Europe must exist. And well, there too, the 2027 vote is a vote for Europe. Whatever comes out of that election, whatever the candidate, if they belong to the republican arc, it will be to continue European action and to protect us.”
Yasmina30,118 views • 9 days 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."
Yasmina573,549 views • 6 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.”
Yasmina141,440 views • 1 month ago
Marine Le Pen's 2016 prediction that Hillary Clinton would bring global conflict and economic ruin backfired entirely. In hindsight, endorsing Donald Trump, who went on to wage aggressive trade and military conflicts, makes her prophetic certainty a real joke. Marine Le Pen 10 years ago: Interviewer: “You would rather vote for Donald Trump than Hillary Clinton if you had a choice?” Marine Le Pen; “All I can say is for France, and it's all I care about, for France, anything is better than Hillary Clinton. Anything is better than Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton means war. Hillary Clinton is devastation, is world instability. She would be a disaster for my people. Leading us to world conflict that would have heavy consequences. So anything but her.” (Marine Le Pen with Hala Gorani - August 31, 2016.)
Yasmina26,143 views • 9 days ago
Another moral failure by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Trying to equate Russia's systematic destruction of Ukraine with Ukraine's defensive actions is pure appeasement of the Kremlin. “These latest series of attacks follow an alarming pattern of escalating strikes against populated areas, reportedly resulting in a record level increase in numbers of civilian casualties and widespread destruction of residential and civilian infrastructure in Ukraine, as well as increasingly in the Russian Federation. Attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure are a clear violation of international humanitarian law and must stop immediately.” UN Deputy Spokesman Farhan Haq.
Yasmina82,826 views • 1 month 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.
Yasmina135,516 views • 1 month 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.)
Yasmina554,897 views • 8 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.
Yasmina513,282 views • 7 months 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 • 5 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 • 6 months ago
![This is putin casually admitting to what can only be described as a textbook war crime, and he’s doing it with a smug smile on his face. He literally brags about using Ukraine as a human testing ground. He openly admits that they didn't fire their "Oreshnik" missile at a military test range. Instead, they fired it at populated areas in Ukraine just because it was "convenient to watch”. Think about that for a second. He sent explosive warheads into communities, and then sent drones in right after just to count the bodies and measure the craters "down to the millimeter" like it’s some kind of science fair project. But the scariest part is how he ends it. He casually drops that they are collecting this data so they can figure out how to better use these massive missiles in "urban areas”. That is political speak for densely populated cities filled with civilians, apartment buildings, and schools. It’s pure, calculated terror. putin: “After all, we... we used to test such systems at testing ranges. But 'Oreshnik' wasn't tested that way. And this wasn't a combat application. In fact, we haven't had a single combat application of 'Oreshnik' over the territory of Ukraine in the full, so to speak, sense of the word. And the last one—to be completely honest, I will reveal a major, major state military secret to you. We simply struck a location where it was convenient to observe the results. Well, this concerns Bila Tserkva, and it especially concerns... concerns the DPR [so-called Donetsk People's Republic] area within the perimeter of the main fortified area. Afterward, our drones flew into that area—the target area we had struck—and simply looked at how the multiple reentry vehicles had landed. They calculated everything down to the millimeter, exactly where everything hit. For us, this is important in order to make future decisions regarding the full-scale deployment of 'Oreshnik' against designated targets. Including within urban areas.”](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2062623381220892967/amplify_video_thumb/2062623279064461312/img/NXpjn2MTtqF_ETMo.jpg)
This is putin casually admitting to what can only be described as a textbook war crime, and he’s doing it with a smug smile on his face. He literally brags about using Ukraine as a human testing ground. He openly admits that they didn't fire their "Oreshnik" missile at a military test range. Instead, they fired it at populated areas in Ukraine just because it was "convenient to watch”. Think about that for a second. He sent explosive warheads into communities, and then sent drones in right after just to count the bodies and measure the craters "down to the millimeter" like it’s some kind of science fair project. But the scariest part is how he ends it. He casually drops that they are collecting this data so they can figure out how to better use these massive missiles in "urban areas”. That is political speak for densely populated cities filled with civilians, apartment buildings, and schools. It’s pure, calculated terror. putin: “After all, we... we used to test such systems at testing ranges. But 'Oreshnik' wasn't tested that way. And this wasn't a combat application. In fact, we haven't had a single combat application of 'Oreshnik' over the territory of Ukraine in the full, so to speak, sense of the word. And the last one—to be completely honest, I will reveal a major, major state military secret to you. We simply struck a location where it was convenient to observe the results. Well, this concerns Bila Tserkva, and it especially concerns... concerns the DPR [so-called Donetsk People's Republic] area within the perimeter of the main fortified area. Afterward, our drones flew into that area—the target area we had struck—and simply looked at how the multiple reentry vehicles had landed. They calculated everything down to the millimeter, exactly where everything hit. For us, this is important in order to make future decisions regarding the full-scale deployment of 'Oreshnik' against designated targets. Including within urban areas.”
Yasmina174,829 views • 3 months ago
While putin reassures the Russians that everything is under control and that fuel shortages are merely a minor, passing hiccup, he quietly dispatches his Deputy Prime Minister to manage a full-blown, self-inflicted gasoline crisis. Watch Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak: “The situation with gasoline that is currently developing, how long will it last? There is a feeling that, after all, back then it was an acute crisis, and now it might be more of a protracted one. Is this true or not?” “Well, first of all, I would like to say that the government keeps its finger on the pulse in a permanent mode, and we monitor the situation together with companies and regions on a daily basis. Specifically, we look at where it is necessary to redirect flows additionally, because a second stage is indeed developing now—the so-called tense situation on the market. We expect that in the near future a number of oil refineries will come out of repairs, and the situation will improve significantly. Well, we will do everything for this, including, as measures have already been taken to ban exports. Imports have already begun, and all the necessary regulatory legal acts have been adopted so that it is possible to produce additional lower-class fuel: "Euro-2," "Euro-3," "Euro-4." There are issues related to logistics; we work with each region individually and solve their problems.”
Yasmina38,813 views • 19 days 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 • 6 months ago
Someone send this to JD Vance before he goes on another rant about 'mismanaged' European allies. Alexander Stubb just reminded the world that the Nordics own the Top 10 lists for justice, clean government free from corruption and equality. While Trump and JD Vance are busy obsessing over 'dominance' and crude GDP, the Finnish President is over here dropping facts. Turns out, when you actually invest in your people instead of just billionaire tax cuts, you end up the happiest people on earth. Stubb is 'bloody happy' because his country actually works for everyone. Alexander Stubb: “You're asking a question from the second happiest country in the world and the happiest country in the world, you know.” Moderator: “Who better to answer this?” Alexander Stubb: “And the third? No?” Moderator: “Oh, they're very happy.” Alexander Stubb: “Yeah, yeah. No, I sometimes, you know, sometimes when I hear the discourse, especially of economists who are looking at crude GDP as the save-all measurement, I think us coming from Nordic countries, we value welfare societies which are a combination of open market economies and clear safety nets. And if I look at our Gini coefficient, if I look at all the measures of international data—which five countries are in top ten, whether it's justice, whether it's least corrupt, whether it's open, whether it's welfare, whether it's environment, whether it's open media, gender equality—they are the Nordics. So I don't buy the argument that we're doing bad. I'm actually bloody happy.” #NordicModel #Finland #HappiestCountry #JDVance #Stubb
Yasmina281,635 views • 6 months ago