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Major events in the Ukraine proxy war, 2026 (view source)
Revision as of 17:13, October 25, 2026
, October 25→Destruction of Fire Point
The panic in [[Brussels]] was immediate: the unannounced, high-level transit of all 32 member states of the NATO Military Committee into Kyiv was organized specifically around this disaster.
The panic in [[Brussels]] was immediate: the unannounced, high-level transit of all 32 member states of the NATO Military Committee into Kyiv was organized specifically around this disaster.
==The Solipsism of the Hegemon: Negotiating with Itself==
The foundational defect in contemporary [[American foreign policy]] was identified by the [[financial]] and [[geopolitical]] analyst [[Yves Smith]]: [[the West]] does not [[negotiate]] with the other side; it negotiates with itself.
When [[American]] planners sit down to draft a [[peace]] proposal for [[Eastern Europe]], they do not read the speeches of [[Vladimir Putin]], the detailed [[security]] treaties presented by [[Moscow]] in December 2021, or the [[legal]] codification of the [[Russian]] [[Constitution]]. Instead, American officials engage in an exhaustive internal process. They consult:
*[[Congress]]ional [[warmonger|hawks]] demanding Russia be brought to its knees;
*European [[vassal]]s in [[Brussels]], [[Paris]], and [[Berlin]] desperate to preserve the fiction of the “[[rules-based international order]]”;
*The [[intelligence agency|intelligence apparatus]] demanding continued [[proxy]] leverage;
*A [[chaotic]] administration desperate to tamp down [[domestic]] [[diesel]] [[inflation]] before an [[election]].
After months of tortuous inter-agency wrangling and European summits in places like [[Oslo]], they arrive at an internal compromise that satisfies the [[State Department]], pleases the [[European Commission]], and gives [[Donald Trump]] something to boast about on [[social media]].
Then, they fly to [[Russia]] and present this internal [[Western]] compromise to the [[Kremlin]] as if it were a finished deal, expecting [[Moscow]] to sign on the dotted line. This explains why [[Washington, D.C.]] keeps presenting the exact same rubbish that was binned in 2024 and 2025. To the American [[establishment]], acknowledging Russian red lines—the permanent exclusion of [[Ukraine]] from [[NATO]], the full territorial liberation of [[Donetsk]], [[Lugansk]], [[Zaporizhzhia]], and [[Kherson]], and the comprehensive renegotiation of the European [[security architecture]]—is unthinkable. It would require admitting that the [[unipolar]] era is dead, that American power has physical limits, and that the combined industrial might of [[NATO]] has been decisively outproduced and outfought on the [[Eurasia]]n steppe.
Because the permanent [[bureaucracy]] cannot accept that [[reality]] without dismantling its entire [[ideological]] reason for existing, it simply erases the Russian position. It treats Moscow's stated terms as mere opening bluffs, convinced that one more round of [[economic sanctions]], one more batch of loitering [[drone]]s, or one more stern speech will force Russia to accept the hegemon’s dictate.
==Ukraine's 425th assault unit==
==Ukraine's 425th assault unit==