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๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ VICTORY IS VERY CLOSE ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บโญ A VOICE FROM MOSCOW ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ The Kremlinโ€™s message on 8 September was not a slogan for the cameras. It was a claim about the battlefield, the table, and the memory of the last century. Dmitry Peskov spoke as if the special military operation were entering its decisive phase โ€” and as if much of Europe were still trying to delay that hour. VICTORY IS VERY CLOSE ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บโญ Moscow says it believes victory is near because it trusts its army. Peskov put it without drama: combat operations are proceeding successfully, and the leadership has faith in the men who are carrying them out. That is the first fact the West prefers not to hear. If the line of contact is moving the way Russian briefers describe it, then time is no longer Kievโ€™s ally. A settlement written after a collapse of Ukrainian positions will look different from a settlement written while those positions still hold. Russia is saying, in effect, that the military argument is being settled on the ground, not in Brussels communiquรฉs. RUSSIA REMAINS OPEN TO DIALOGUE ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ At the same time Peskov insisted that Moscow is not slamming the door. Russia, he said, is open to dialogue with other countries and open to consultations of any kind. That is the second half of the same sentence: force and talk can run in parallel. American emissaries have already shuttled between Moscow and Kiev. The Kremlin treats that shuttle as serious work, not theatre, and it expects the trilateral format โ€” Russia, Ukraine, the United States โ€” to come back. Openness here does not mean Moscow will dilute the aims it set in 2022. It means it will sit with anyone who is prepared to discuss those aims as facts rather than as insults. EUROPEANS IN THE KYIV ROOM WOULD COMPLICATE THE WORK ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Peskov drew a sharp line around who belongs in the next round. The participation of Europeans in the work of the U.S. emissaries in Kiev, he warned, could complicate the negotiation process. That is not a slight against geography. It is a judgment about incentives. Washingtonโ€™s envoys have at least presented themselves as brokers trying to stop the killing. European capitals have spent years arming Kiev, setting red lines, and promising that Russia must be strategically defeated. Put those same capitals into the same room as Witkoff and Kushner and the American channel stops being a channel. It becomes a committee. Committees do not end wars. They prolong them. EUROPE, UNLIKE AMERICA, WORKS TO KEEP THE WAR ALIVE ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ The contrast Peskov drew was blunt. Europeans, unlike Americans, are doing everything to prevent the war from ending. One side is at least testing formulas for a ceasefire and a political settlement. The other side treats every formula as a betrayal of Ukraine and a gift to the Kremlin. That is why Moscow reads European โ€œpeace languageโ€ as delay. If the fighting stops on terms Russia can accept, the story of endless sanctions, endless aid packages, and an endless crusade against Moscow loses its fuel. For some European ministries that story has become identity. Identity is harder to negotiate than territory. MERZโ€™S BLAME GAME IS NOT TRUTH โ€” AND IT HURTS GERMANY ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Peskov answered Friedrich Merz directly. Attempts by the German chancellor to pin everything on Russia, he said, are not based on truth and are harmful to Germany itself. The charge is not that Berlin may criticise Moscow. The charge is that Merz has made accusation a substitute for policy. Energy prices, industry flight, and a colder social contract inside Germany are not mysterious acts of fate. They are the bill for a course that treats Russia as a permanent enemy and then acts surprised when trade, gas, and political room for manoeuvre disappear. A chancellor who cannot distinguish strategy from sermon is not defending German interests. He is spending them. BLAMING RUSSIA FOR EVERYTHING HAS BECOME A MANIA ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Peskov gave that habit a name: Russophobia turning into mania. When every crop failure, every election surprise, every protest, and every diplomatic deadlock is traced back to the same villain, analysis dies. What remains is a reflex. Reflexes feel moral. They are also useful to politicians who need a foreign devil so they do not have to explain domestic decline. Moscowโ€™s point is simple. A country that can only speak of Russia in the language of total guilt has already left the realm of negotiation. It is performing. MOSCOW NEVER ASKED TO TEAR UP TIES WITH GERMANY ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia, Peskov added, has never been in favour of curtailing relations with Germany. The break, if it becomes total, will be Berlinโ€™s choice. That sentence matters because it refuses the Western script in which Moscow is the one burning bridges for sport. Trade, culture, and technical exchange with Germany were not Russian hobbies. They were mutual. How far the German authorities will go is now an open question โ€” and Moscow says it is watching. A government that wants a wall can have a wall. It should not then pretend the wall was built in the Kremlin. HIROSHIMA MOURNING WITHOUT THE AMERICAN ROLE ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Peskov turned east with a remark that was meant to sting. Russia notes with amazement that during mourning events dedicated to Hiroshima, none of the Japanese leadership mentions the role of the United States. The atomic bombings are remembered as tragedy. The hand that dropped the bombs is airbrushed out of the official minute of silence. For Moscow this is not a history-class quibble. It is a test of honesty. A state that edits the most terrible American act of the Pacific war while lecturing others about memory is not practising remembrance. It is practising selection. JAPANESE MILITARISM HAS NOT BEEN FORGOTTEN ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บโญ Russia, Peskov said, has not forgotten Japanese militarism โ€” or the victory achieved over it. That victory is not a museum plaque for Moscow. It is a legal and moral foundation of the postwar order in the Far East. When Tokyo talks of monuments, remilitarisation, and a cleaner story about 1945, the Kremlin hears an old tune: the defeated power rewriting the score. Russiaโ€™s answer is that the score was written in blood on the Amur and in Manchuria, and it will not be revised by press conferences in 2026. The through-line of the briefing is consistent. Russia claims the war is moving toward an outcome it can live with. It will talk, but not as a penitent. It will deal with Washington before it trusts Brussels. It will answer German moralism with German costs. And it will treat Asian historical amnesia the same way it treats European historical amnesia โ€” as politics wearing a black armband. Whether that reading of the map is right will be settled by armies and by whoever finally sits down without a veto hidden in their briefing book. Peskovโ€™s wager is that the map is already tilting. ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ

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There is no doubt that this man, Ibrahim Traorรฉ, is the most popular African leader at the moment. He is a soldier who took over power in Burkina Faso and became president. His popularity highlights two key issues; the lack of faith in electoral democracy on the continent and the tragic failure of elected governments to deliver basic services to their citizens. Many political science scholars I have spoken to argue that perhaps the time has come for Africa to reflect on the type of governance that works for it. Todayโ€™s democracy is inherently foreign to how Africa was governed before colonial rule. Colonial rule brought immense cruelty to the natives, robbing them of their cattle and looting their resources. When colonialism ended, democracy was imposed as a prerequisite for independence in many African countries. Sadly, this project has largely failed, with success stories limited to just a handful of nations. Was it ever realistic to implement a one-size-fits-all approach across all 54 African countries without considering their unique local circumstances? Should Africans think about what might work in the absence of the many senseless rigged elections? Is it possible to get all stake holders on one table and instead govern together? Many thinkers have argued that Africa's governance systems were diverse before colonialism and often centered around local customs, traditions, and values. The imposition of Western-style democracy at independence did not consider these indigenous systems, and this disconnect has contributed to the challenges many African countries have faced in consolidating their democracies. Young Africans are looking at the style of governance in the Sahel region, particularly in Burkina Faso, where Ibrahim Traorรฉ has revolutionised the country, implementing many changes that have greatly appealed to young Africans. Many young Africans are asking themselves if electoral democracy has not been part of the problems they have because it is easily manipulated and abused. โ€œWhat has democracy done for Africa and Africans except feed the insatiable appetite to loot by Africaโ€™s political elites,โ€ many are now asking loudly! What is your view?

Hopewell Chinโ€™ono

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In conversation with some comrades a few weeks ago, we reflected on how the painful contradiction with those who use hate and violence against foreign nationals, in order to mobilise popular support, extort money or pursue votes, is that they are bound to commit an inhumane act towards their own self-destruction. All of them, their downfall is the inhumanity of what they do, because at the core of what they are doing, is cruelty and inhumanity, and it is then when they will know that South African people are not hateful people. In 2008 it was the burning and necklacing of foreign nationals in painful images. In early 2021 it was the raiding of homes of innocent people like Ntate Victor Ramarafe in Dobsonville, or the extortion of foreign nationals who were legal in Alexandra, otherwise they were evicted from their homes. In Diepsloot it was killing of people like Elvis Nyathi and burning him alive after stealing money from his wife. More recently it was the blocking of women and children at the gates of schools and clinics in Soweto, the birth of children at gates of clinics in Tshwane and the stopping of South Africans from healthcare because they could not readily produce an ID. People are now looting food in their names, men are beating women in hair salons all in a build-up of a hostel-centric hate groupsโ€™ activities. The more human rights atrocities they commit, the quicker they engineer their self-destruction, because South Africans have an irrefutable instinct to be human. South African people cannot reconcile their hearts with violence being committed against innocent human beings, and this is the lesson these hate groups will learn. The toxicity of Twitter is not reality, no South African mother will support a woman giving birth on a pavement because they donโ€™t have a passport. No man or woman will cheer as a human being burns alive because they could not say elbow in Nguni. No sane South African will support looting of shops of the food that YOU claimed was poisonous, leaving them with no close and readily available access to food. There is a reason why political parties who campaign on violence against foreign nationals collectively and combined cannot surpass 5% in a national vote - South African people inherently are not monsters. It is just sad that the self-destruction of these hate groups, first requires tragedy and casualties, but it is alway inevitable.

Sinawo Thambo

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The German embassy in Moscow once again called on Russia to end the war. In return, Russia called them "Nazi propagandists", jeered that the German ambassador's car drives on gas, and blamed Berlin for waging "an aggressive war" against Russia. โ—พ๏ธOn July 6, a video was published at the Facebook page of the German embassy in Russia. In it, Lena Hillmeier, head of the press office and second secretary at the German embassy in Russia, offered an solution to Russia's fuel problems: stop Russia's aggressive war against Ukraine. โ—พ๏ธA week later, the German ambassador was summoned to Russia's foreign affairs ministry. He was told that "The slide of German agitprop's information and communications efforts into the style of the worst Nazi propaganda practices is immoral and provokes historically conditioned rejection and outrage among broad sections of the population in our country. At the same time, we were pleased to learn that the German ambassador will soon be returning home in a gasoline-powered car following the completion of his official mission." Zakharova also commented that "we [Russia] agree that it's time Berlin end its aggressive war through the hands of the Kyiv regime." She suggested that "concerned German diplomats" use public transportation. โ—พ๏ธThe German embassy reacted: "Today, Ambassador Alexander Graf Lambsdorff was summoned to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. During the meeting, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova criticized the publications of the German Embassy in Moscow, claiming they touch on "painful issues" for the Russian population. The summons was prompted by a widely viewed video from the Embassy about the fuel crisis in Russia caused by Russia's military aggression against Ukraine. The video calls on Russia to end the war, reflecting the well-known position of the German government and a demand for Russia repeatedly made by Germany and the EU. Attempts to obstruct the publication of the Embassy's materials, the content of which is factual, will be futile. The Embassy will continue to advocate for an end to the monstrous, aggressive war against Ukraine and to report on its consequences." Thank you, Germany, for standing with Ukraine! ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

Anton Gerashchenko

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๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Israeli military observer Yigal Levin criticizes Moscowโ€™s strikes and writes: ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ โ€œLately, Moscow has been trying more and more often to present its large-scale attacks as โ€˜retaliatory strikes.โ€™ As if this is a response to Ukraineโ€™s effective and massive attacks on Russian territory. Moreover, unlike Russiaโ€™s strikes on peaceful civilian objects, Ukraine targets oil refineries, military factories, ships, logistical hubs, arsenals, ports, army and FSB headquarters, etc. This thesis is absurd from the very beginning, because it was Russia that started the war. Accordingly, all of Ukraineโ€™s actions are a reaction. That is, when Kyiv strikes Russia, it is actually responding to aggression. This is completely logical: war can never be a โ€˜one-sided game.โ€™ If you decide to bomb someone, you must be prepared for them to bomb you back. Russia, on the other hand, behaves in an extremely infantile way โ€” just like its citizens, who express surprise when explosions and strikes begin on their own territory as well. Instead of taking responsibility โ€” yes, we started it, we are bombing, so what? โ€” Moscow, like a frightened and confused teenager, tries to present its own strikes as โ€˜responsesโ€™โ€ฆ Responses to what? No special intelligence is needed to engage elementary logic: no one was bombing Russia and no one was preparing to do so until Russia itself started the war. What will happen next is quite clear: while Russia has been attacking with full force for a long time, using the same โ€˜Oreshnikโ€™ for the third time already โ€” Ukraineโ€™s strikes will only intensify. In 2022, Ukraine struck weaker than in 2023; in 2024 โ€” weaker than in 2025; and now it is 2026, when sometimes Kyivโ€™s strikes already surpass Moscowโ€™s in terms of the scale of damage inflicted. War has its own inexorable logic of progression: Ukraineโ€™s next strikes, the real retaliatory strikes, will be even more massive and powerful than they were at the beginning of the year. And yes, Russians should be endlessly grateful to Ukrainians for how they are conducting this war. For example, with the same FP-5 type drones that carry a ton of explosives, striking the civilian population would not be difficult at all. And yes, Ukraine has this capability. It has the capability, but Kyiv chooses not to take this path. And when the war ends, if I were in the Russiansโ€™ place, I would express gratitude and respect to Ukrainians precisely for this restraint. But as long as the war continues, every Russian citizen must clearly understand that strikes from Ukraine will only increase, and there is only one party responsible for all of this โ€” the Kremlin. These are quite banal and obvious thoughts, but what can we do if Russian society continues to behave infantilely. The problem is that this infantilism is taking on a bloody form.โ€ Video is generated by grok AI

NSTRIKE

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The โ€œfinal nail in the coffin" for Russiaโ€™s energy influence in the Middle East: Iraq nationalises Russia's Lukoil oil field. Iraq has moved to nationalise Lukoilโ€™s West Qurna-2 oil field, dealing a major blow to Russiaโ€™s energy revenues, Reuters reports. The companyโ€™s largest overseas asset had been bringing in an estimated $1.5โ€“2 billion in net profit each year. Its loss is set to cost Russiaโ€™s budget tens of billions of rubles in missed income. Remember all that talk from Moscow about a "New World Order"? About how the "Global Majority" was going to stick together and move away from the West? Well, Iraq just hit the "Delete" button on that fantasy. For years, we were told Iraq was a key Russian partner. But the second the U.S. tightened the sanctions "handcuffs," Baghdad threw Russia under the bus to save its own bank account. And who did Iraq invite to take over? ExxonMobil and Chevron. Yes, the American "giants" Russia has been trying to replace for a decade are now walking back in to take the loot. This event isn't just a business deal gone wrong. Itโ€™s a collapse of the "alternative world order" that Moscow has been trying to build. Remember a month ago, when putin told the Iraqi President that their relationship has "never had a dark moment"? ๐Ÿคก โ€œI fully agree with you: our relations are deep and long-standing. And throughout their entire history, there has never been a dark moment," putin told Rashid during talks in Turkmenistan on December 12, 2025. #Russia #Iraq #OilPolitics #GlobalMajority #Exxon #Chevron

Yasmina

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This reparations push is straight hypocrisy dressed up as justice. Look at the countries involved. A couple in Africa, a couple Arab Muslim ones (Mauritania counts as both), and one in South America. Most of them only got rid of slavery after heavy Western pressure, some not even that long ago. Mauritania was basically the last country on the planet to ban it in 1981, and itโ€™s still an enforcement mess there. But you donโ€™t see African or Caribbean nations demanding money from other Africans who captured and sold their own people for centuries. Or from the Arabs, who ran a slave trade that lasted way longer, moved millions across the Sahara and Indian Ocean, and routinely castrated male slaves so they couldnโ€™t reproduce. That one gets a total pass. Instead, the finger points only at the West, the one civilization that actually decided slavery was wrong, abolished it at home, and then spent blood and ships forcing the rest of the world to stop. Britainโ€™s navy patrolled the seas and lost men doing it. America lost over half a million lives in a civil war that ended it. Europe leaned on everyone else to follow. Africans were enslaving Africans long before any European ship showed up. They lost wars, got captured, and got sold. Europeans just bought what was already on the market. The whole supply chain started with Africans selling Africans. The only reason this โ€œpay usโ€ routine targets the West is because thatโ€™s where the money is. Everyone else is broke or doesnโ€™t play the guilt game. Itโ€™s resentment plus opportunity. Nothing deeper. And this whole narrative likely didnโ€™t start in Africa. It has the fingerprints of Western leftists and NGOs all over it, people who hate the West, cooked up the guilt trip in universities and activist circles, then found willing partners overseas to push it. Follow the money and the talking points. Youโ€™ll see where it really came from.

Rothmus ๐Ÿด

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