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(left to right) Boris Johnson, Zelensky chief-of-staff Andrei Yermak,^[1] Zelensky, ? (AI cannot identify), drone manufacturer billionaire & Boris Johnson paymaster Christopher Harborne.^[2]

“	In April 2022, Russian and Ukrainian negotiators arrived at a draft peace treaty. But Zelensky was diverted by his Western partners. Rather than pursue the promise of diplomacy and a peace that would satisfy Ukraine's goals, Zelensky allowed himself to be pulled by the promise of whatever it takes for as long as it takes onto the path of war.	”
—Ted Snider, November 19, 2025.^[3]

“	When Boris Johnson boarded the night train to Ukraine, he had the usual retinue of assistants and bodyguards, as well as a person who gave him 1 million pounds sterling. Less than a year has passed since Johnson accepted what is believed to be the largest donation in the history of an individual MP. It was from Christopher Harborne, one of the UK's largest and most private political donors.	”
—Did Boris Johnson Take a Bribe to Keep the War Going in Ukraine?^[4]

“	The Russian invasion of Ukraine has put an end to the globalization we have experienced over the last three decades.	”
—Larry Fink, March 22, 2022.^[5]

'What Does This War Mean for the Future of Mankind and Today's Civilization?' panel discussion at Ukrainian Catholic University in Lvov with Thomas Friedman, Timothy Snyder,^[6] Richard C. Levin, Francis Fukuyama, Comfort Ero, and Yaroslav Hrytsak, Sept. 11, 2023.

“	The entire world will now suffer due to the catastrophic failure of Western leadership.	”
—Aearnur, March 26, 2022.^[7]

“	There are those in the West who don't mind a long war because it would mean exhausting Russia, even if this means the demise of Ukraine and comes at the cost of Ukrainian lives.	”
—Volodymyr Zelensky, March 27, 2022.^[8]

“	Ukraine is just the beginning. The geopolitical consequences of the Special Operation will change the entire view of the world.	”
—Dr. Konstantin Sivkov, First Vice President of the Academy of Geopolitical Problems, March 28, 2022.^[9]

“	We had some conversation even before the war started, about what if Ukraine comes out and just says to Russia, 'fine, you know, we won't go into NATO if that stops the war, if that stops the invasion,' which at that point it may well have done. I was uncomfortable with the idea of the U.S. pushing Ukraine not to do that, and sort of implicitly giving Russia some sort of sphere of influence or veto power on that. There is certainly a question, almost three years on now, would that have been better to do before the war started, would that have been better to do in Istanbul talks, it certainly would have prevented the destruction and the loss of life.	”
—Amanda Sloat, December 10, 2025.^[10]

“	The real special military operation didn't start on February 24, 2022. It started on April 3rd, 2022 almost a month and a half after. And the reason for that was, when Istanbul negotiations were sabotaged by the United States by means of this clown Boris Johnson, who basically came in and said, "No no no. We're going to support you. We're going to just provide everything, including command and control." So the negotiations broke down. This is when Russians realized, you cannot negotiate with these people.	”
—Andrei Martyanov, April 9, 2025.^[11]

“	Almost six weeks into the war between Russia and Ukraine, I’m beginning to wonder if this conflict isn’t our first true world war — much more than World War I or World War II ever was.	”
—Thomas Friedman, NYT, April 3, 2022.^[12]

Background

On the morning of January 1, 1992 when the Soviet Union was dissolved, some 25 million ethnic Russians and other Soviet peoples woke up to discover they were now residents of a foreign country outside the land of their birth, without being consulted at the ballot box in a free, fair, and democratic election. Many suffered a loss of rights, such as social security benefits or even the right to vote, as in the Baltic States, and were discriminated against as second class citizens. Since the earliest Bolshevik times, the Russian people themselves constituted the largest bloc of victims of Soviet communism; now they faced the wrath of Western fascism a second time as their fathers and grandfathers had five decades earlier.

While Biden was abandoning $83 billion in weapons to Afghan terrorists, he was simultaneously delivering arms to Ukrainian Nazis for war with Russia.^[13]

“	Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow'. Various people have tried it, Napoleon and Hitler, and it is no good.	”
—Field Marshal Viscount Bernard Law Montgomery, May 30, 1962.^[14]

“	Ukraine, or rather Eastern Ukraine, will come back in five, ten or fifteen years. Western Ukraine can go to hell.	”
—Anonymous Russian general quoted in Samuel Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and Remaking of World Order, 1996. p. 167. [2]

“	Between 2001 and 2021, the United State destroyed political orders in Iraq and Libya, prolonged civil wars in Afghanistan and Syria, and teetered on the brink of war with Iran. During the same period, by their own reckoning, their trade policies created a monster in the form of the far more powerful People's Republic of China…The wars have poisoned America, from its policies to its policing to the way the government surveils Americans. No one has been held accountable for the failures of the era.	”
—Justin Logan, September 2021.^[15]

“	Just don’t invade Russia. It’s never a good idea.	”
—Elon Musk, January 4, 2024.^[16]

“	BREAKING: CIA just declassified documents that reveal^[18] that then-Vice President Biden intervened to suppress an internal report exposing alleged corruption by his family in Ukraine — and reportedly pressured to remove a Ukrainian official who had uncovered wrongdoing....Biden provoked the war in Ukraine to cover up his family’s corruption. The truth is coming out — and justice must follow.	”
—Kirill Dmitriev, October 7, 2025.^[17]

2021

As the Biden junta was simultaneously preparing for the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan and launching the NATO war in Ukraine, junta leader Joe Biden met with Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin in June 2021 at a summit meeting in Geneva. Biden and the 16 member US intelligence community requested of the Russians an "off limits" ceasefire agreement on 16 "critical infrastructure" projects.^[19]

2022

Dmitri Yarosh, former head of the Pravy Sektor standing before the neo-Nazi black and red "Blood and Soil" flag.

During the night of February 25-26, 2022 Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky sent a ceasefire proposal to Russia via the Chinese embassy in Kiev. The Kremlin immediately responded by setting out its conditions:

arrest of all Nazis (Dmitro Yarosh and the Azov Battalion, etc.)
removal of all street names and destruction of monuments glorifying Nazi collaborators during the Second World War (Stepan Bandera, etc.),
laying down of weapons.

The Atlantic press^[20] ignored this event, while the rest of the world, which knew about it, held its breath. The negotiation failed a few hours later after Washington intervened. Only then would Western public opinion be informed, but the Russian conditions would always be hidden from them.^[21]

Bloomberg News reported: “The US-led drive to isolate Russia through sanctions has not succeeded, as half the countries in the Group of Twenty leading global economies refused to sign on...Senior officials from leading Western nations are surprised by the lack of support within the wider G20, despite their efforts to make the case for restrictions against Russia...Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and Turkey have not joined the sanctions that were adopted by the US, UK, EU, and their allies Australia, Canada, Japan, and South Korea...Some nations, like China and South Africa, have openly criticized the restrictions…The G20 nations account for around 85% of global economic output”.^[22]

On March 28, 2022 Joe Biden trashed the November 1985 joint declaration issued by President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev at the Geneva Summit which read,^[23] "a nuclear war is unwinnable and must never be fought" when Biden issued an updated version of the National Defense Strategy (NDS).^[24]

Despite US opposition, former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett was able to mediate an agreement between Russia and Ukraine to meet for peace negotiations in Istanbul.

On March 29, 2022, Tass reported^[25] negotiations in Istanbul with the Kyiv regime included:

permanent neutrality and non-aligned status
guarantees of security
demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine
recognition of contemporary territorial realities
restoration of the status of Russian language and rights of Russian-speakers

How the peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia failed.^[26]

In an interview with the Berliner Zeitung former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder explained how the peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia failed:

"The only people who could settle the war against Ukraine are the Americans. During the peace negotiations in March 2022 in Istanbul with [then-Ukrainian chief negotiator ] Rustem Umerov, the Ukrainians did not agree on peace because they were not allowed to. They first had to ask the Americans about everything they discussed."^[27]

“	We've led the Ukrainians down the Primrose path. We pushed this country into this war. We're principally responsible for it because of our efforts to make Ukraine a Western bulwark on Russia's borders. We encouraged the counter offensive. We forced them to attack week after week, when they were suffering enormous casualties. And now when they're in really deep trouble, we're pulling the plug on them. It just turns your stomach. It's really horrible.	”
—Prof. John J. Mearsheimer, October 12, 2023^[28]

As Ukraine and Russia neared conclusion of a ceasefire on Russia's Special Military Operation to end the Donbas conflict under terms largely along the lines of the Minsk Accords with the issues of the Donetsk Peoples Republic, the Lugansk Peoples Republic, and Crimea off the table, as a gesture of good faith President Putin ordered the withdrawal of troops surrounding Kiev.^[29] However UK prime minister Boris Johnson rushed to Kiev unannounced and convinced Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelensky not to accept the deal in exchange for promises of NATO aid to fight the Russians. Two months later, after thousands of the Armed Forces of Ukraine troops were ground down on the battlefield along with their NATO weapons, talk of resuming ceasefire negotiations was now encouraged by Western leaders. The Kremlin announced that the status of the Kherson and Zaporozhye republics would be off the table as well, if negotiations were to resume.^[30]

The visit of Boris Johnson with Zelensky in April 2022, carrying the joint message of all Western powers to sabotage the peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine, was the most crucial and reprehensible of all, marking the beginning of the most horrendous loss of life since the end of Second World War.^[31]

On April 5, 2022 according to the Deputy Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczynski, leader of Poland's ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, agreements were fully reached allowing Washington to relocate its nuclear arsenals to the country in any required quantity, the German newspaper Welt am Sontag reported.^[32]

Ukrainska Pravda reported in May 2022 on Boris Johnson's surprise visit to Kiev shortly after Russia and Ukraine had reached a peace settlement in their talks in Istanbul. The Russians had agreed to withdraw to the pre-February 2022 borders and Zelensky would implement the Minsk Accords. Putin's withdrawal from the Kiev environs was meant as a show of good faith.

While the Prime Ministers of France, Germany, Italy, and Romania urged Ukrainian dictator Vladimir Zelensky to pursue a negotiated settlement with Russia and end the slaughter of Ukrainian troops in a hopeless cause, Johnson urged Zelensky to continue the war and keep the gravy train of $53 billion in U.S. aid flowing.^[33] Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov later said "We sat at the negotiating table with the Ukrainian delegation until the end of March [2022], when an approach to a settlement on the principles suggested by the Ukrainians at the time had been harmonized in Istanbul. These principles suited us for that moment, but the talks were stopped by direct order from Washington and London."

The sudden failure of the Istanbul agreement led to the immediate influx of mass amounts of the latest U.S. gear such as HIMARs. Zelensky was secretly promised unlimited funding and military support as bait. Stuck between the path of peace or the chance to go down in history as the one man who could do what Genghis Khan, Napoleon, and Hitler could not do. Zelensky chose to put his faith in NATO’s invincibility. Ukrainian journalist Diana Panchenko confirmed what happened: "I know for a fact that the war could have been stopped back in March. A man from Zelensky's inner circle told me: We simply ditched the Russians in March. He boasted about it... Friends, I know them all personally. I appeal to Ukrainians. You are ruled by sociopaths who do not understand the consequences".^[34]

President Vladimir Putin shows African leaders initialed copies of the draft treaty that was quashed by Biden and the UK.^[35] The US bribed Zelensky with $100 billion in "aid" in early April 2022 not to make peace with Russia.

Only a month after Russia was forced by innumerable actions by the West to achieve the aims of protecting the Russian-speaking people of the Donbass region and of itself from a malevolent Ukrainian regime via its becoming a NATO state on its border, Russia initiated peace negotiations. These bore fruit in March 2022 when significant progress was announced from Istanbul where the talks between the two sides where being held. Russia removed its troops from around the capital Kiev, sent there with the goal not of conquest but of bringing the regime there to its senses and to negotiate a peaceful outcome. This avenue toward a peaceful resolution of all areas of concern was swiftly blocked via a visit to Kiev by then British prime minister Boris Johnson. This one act condemned upwards of half a million Ukrainians to their deaths and the potential destruction of Ukraine as a viable state.^[36]

“	It is still not in America's best interest to plunge into an all-out war with Russia, even if a negotiated peace may require Ukraine to make some hard decisions; and the U.S. aims and strategy in this war have become harder to discern.	”
—New York Times Editorial Board, May 19, 2022.^[37]

“	When Boris Johnson stepped in to stop negotiations between Ukraine and Russia in Istanbul just a few weeks after the start of hostilities he set in motion the meatgrinder that has taken SO many lives.	”
—Aearnur, September 16, 2023^[38]

“	We have to collectively, in essence, burn down the Republican Party. We have to level them — because if there are survivors, if there are people who weather this storm, they will do it again … The Kabuki dance in which Trump, his defenders and his supporters are treated as rational (clever even!) comes from a media establishment that refuses to discard … this false equivalence.	”
—Jennifer Rubin, September 24, 2022.^[39]

U.S. Dollar share of global reserve currencies since passage of the Magnitsky Act.^[40]

“	Russia's invasion of Ukraine, initiated on February 24, 2022, is among the most—if not the most—significant shocks to the global order since World War II.	”
—:::Russia, Ukraine, and the Future World Order, Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 October 2022

“	The folly of arrogantly dismissing Russia's legitimate security demands, and the cynical act of using Ukraine as a proxy army to harm Russia — and ultimately attempt to effect its dismemberment — would, in the end, result only in the end of American hegemony, the end of NATO, and the rebirth of a multipolar world....many “veterans” of the empire's peak period (1991 – 2003) cannot grasp the cold hard reality that we are well into the story arc of an irreversible historical hinge-point. The lucre-drunken bankers are now gnawing at the carcass of the goose that laid the golden eggs: the hegemonic global dollar system which permitted the US to conjure ex nihilo unlimited amounts of “money” which they then used to purchase and consume the products of the world, and thereby export the inflationary monetary consequences across the globe.	”
—William Schryver, December 23, 2022.^[41]

2023

“	If we lose in Ukraine, we will lose the world for decades. Defeat in Ukraine could be the beginning of the end of the golden age of the West.	”
—Mateusz Morawiecki, April 13, 2025.^[42]

“	I learned a lot about Putin then. 'My dog is bigger than your dog.' The lesson is: Listen carefully to what others say, don’t prejudge their sentiments, and let them speak.	”
—George W. Bush, July 10, 2015. [3]

(Left photo) Chief of the General Staff of the Wehrmacht Gen. Adolf Heusinger, (center) Gen. Friedrich von Paulus, captured at Stalingrad, (foreground) Der Führer Adolf Hitler. (Right photo) Gen. Adolf Heusinger as Chairman of the NATO Military Committee (1961-1964).

“

The empire’s seemingly endless string of hubris-driven blunders has rapidly accelerated the formation of what is quite arguably the single most potent military / economic / geostrategic alliance seen in modern times: the tripartite axis of Russia, China, and Iran …It has astoundingly managed to jump from the frying pan of a regional proxy war against Russia into the fire of a global conflict that all three of its steadily strengthening adversaries now view as existential...In my considered opinion, this is almost certainly the single most inexplicable and portentous series of geopolitical blunders in recorded history.

”

“

U.S. actions in Ukraine have driven together its two greatest adversaries, Russia and China. They, joined by India, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iran and dozens of other countries, are carrying out a Mackinder-feared Eurasian integration that will leave the U.S. outside of the world’s largest and most dynamic trading bloc.

The U.S.’ military failure has advertised, once again (after Iraq and Afghanistan), the relative impotence of U.S. military solutions. Yes, it can still destroy small, defenseless countries like Serbia, Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq.

But against a peer competitor that has chosen to stand up to it, the U.S. has, frankly, been handed its ass. All the world can see it.

”

—Robert Freeman, February 28, 2023.^[44]

“	The U.S. and NATO will soon have lost their big proxy war against Russia. In light of this reality the much larger, centuries old narrative of the superior West is also breaking down. This will have global consequences for decades to come.	”
—Moon of Alabama, July 18, 2023^[45]

“	The Ukraine war signaled the end of Western hegemony.	”
—David Hearst, July 27, 2023 [4]

“	The empire has blundered itself to an existential war and, therefore, the last war of the empire. When the end comes, the empire will lie as usual and declare victory, but everyone else will know the truth, especially the vassals.	”
—Anonymous Chinese scholar [5]

“	The U.S.-dominated NATO alliance, the European Union, the rules-based international order and all the post-World War II structures, which held the Western world together for nearly eight decades. They are all now crumbling around us.	”
—Scott Ritter, Requiem for NATO’s Nightmare, July 28, 2023.

“	You're asking whether we can go back to where we were before the war broke out or maybe even where we were in March '22 shortly after the war broke out when the negotiations in Istanbul were ongoing...the mess that we have created here, the disaster we have created here cannot be underestimated in terms of its scope.	”
—Prof. John Mearsheimer, interview with Aaron Maté, August 2023.^[46]

“	Ukraine’s lack of progress over the past two months should serve as a wake-up call for Western leaders. Their response will shape the geopolitical landscape for decades to come.	”
—Maksym Skrypchenko, Ukraine’s slow counteroffensive is a wake-up call for the West, The Atlantic Council, August 7, 2023^[47]

“	The world stands at a critical juncture...Decisions made now will resonate for generations to come.	”
—Jai Hamid, The impact of US-Russia nuclear war on Americans, August 9, 2023

“	Under cover of the Ukrainian war, vast sweeping changes are in order for the global architecture which has secured Western hegemony for the past century and a half. The events currently playing out in Africa and the ‘global south’ dare to eclipse the significance of the Ukrainian war, which acts merely as the frosting to the revolutionary layer cake of anti-imperialist sentiment bursting forth around the world.	”
—Simplicius the Thinker, August 15, 2023 [6]

The 1991 borders of Ukraine were drawn by the Communist dictators Lenin, Stalin, and Khruschev without the democratic consent of the people living there. Advocates of so-called "Ukrainian independence" after 2022 sought to ratify the deeds of communist dictators as contemporary, standing international law without the democratic consent of the people living there.

“	We already live in a post-American and post-Western world. We're in a truly multipolar one, where the group of BRICS countries are larger than the group of G7 countries....The United States still believes this is ultimately a U.S. led world with two recalcitrant actors, Russia and China, and all the rest will come along and understand the realities. In my opinion, the U.S. is a quarter century out of date. And Europe is a big disappointment. There isn't one voice in Europe right now that has a geopolitical outlook that is even intelligible. What kind of world we are heading toward is really an open question; we could be heading toward a world of massive conflict and disaster, or we could head toward a world where some intelligent, non-octogenarian leader could arise in the United States who will say: 'NATO we don't need much anymore. We do need to have normal relations with China, India, Russia, Brazil, the EU.' And then suddenly things will look quite different.	”
—Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, August 25, 2023. [7]

“	As the war in Ukraine completely reshuffles the world order and threatens to destroy human civilization, it's frightening just how little information Americans are receiving about what happens there.	”
—Tucker Carlson, August 29, 2023^[48]

“	The expansion of BRICS shows the intention to build a world order alternative to the current one, which is seen as too Western.	”
—Emmanuel Macron, August 30, 2023 [8]

Emmanuel Macron speaking at globalist conference with open display of a swastika.

“	We're seeing a complete reordering of the international world. The world that was established basically by the United States, with the support of Europe in the aftermath of World War II, was an order that consisted of the United Nations, dominated by the United States, the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, & other organizations that the United States called the 'international rules-based order', and yet the United States controlled it primarily because the power of the dollar. What's happened as a result of the combination of economic sanctions against Russia and the heightened escalation and rhetoric, and threats against China, coupled with the threats against Russia - it's led Russia and China to work more diligently on creating a new world order.	”
— Larry Johnson, September 10, 2023^[49]

“	The fate of NATO and its credibility as a ‘defensive alliance’ is irrevocably intertwined with the outcome of the Ukrainian conflict, yet because NATO is, in reality, a political rather than military institution, these crucial issues will never be debated openly, as the answers would be akin to a priest announcing the nonexistence of God from the pulpit.	”
—Chay Bowes, September 10, 2023. [9]

“	The influence of the G20 is diminishing and the BRICS group is gaining strength. This is the context for the modern era geopolitical dynamic that is taking place.	”
—Sundance, September 10, 2023. [10]

“	The War in Ukraine has become a turning point in the history of civilization.	”
—Prof. Yaroslav Hrytsak, September 11, 2023.^[50]

“	It is now resoundingly clear that U.S. and NATO forces are going to be defeated by Russia, owing in part to the delusional arrogance and incompetence that now characterizes the political leadership of the US empire. The US military will fail, the dollar currency will fail, the Biden regime will fail and the world will denounce the dollar and the punitive weaponization of the reserve currency carried out by the US empire.	”
—Mike Adams, September 12, 2023

“	The old world order is over...One era is ending, a new one is beginning, and the decisions that we make now will shape the future for decades to come.	”
—Antony Blinken, September 13, 2023.^[51]

“	President Biden’s provocative foreign policy towards Russia and Communist China which I have denounced as a policy of national suicide has created the greatest existential threat the US has ever faced by pushing Russia and China into an ever closer military alliance and provoking them to attack us by attempting to expand America’s sphere of influence into their backyards in Eastern Europe and Taiwan.	”
—David T. Pyne, September 15, 2023 [11]

“	The Biden administration continued its campaign to rewrite the rules of global economics this week by taking steps to fix the leading institution of globalization: the World Trade Organization. The global trade body has been dysfunctional since 2019, when the Trump administration refused to name judges to its highest dispute-settlement body, rendering it unable to make decisions. Since then, the hobbled WTO has served as a symbol of how American populism has alienated the U.S. government from the rules-based international system that it helped create at the end of the (first) Cold War.	”
—Gavin Bade, Rewriting the rules of globalization, Politico, September 22, 2023^[52]

“	Humanity is standing at a crossroads. It depends only on us how history will develop. It is in the common interest to prevent a slide into a big war and the final collapse of the mechanisms of international cooperation created by generations of predecessors.	”
—Sergei Lavrov, September 23, 2023 [12]

Volodymyr Zelensky, Justin Trudeau, and Chrystia Freeland applaud Yaroslav Hunka of the Waffen SS Galicia Division during a session of the Canadian Parliament, September 24, 2023.^[53]^[54]

“	For the past 400 years, the international system has been shaped by an exclusive group of countries who have built an order designed to uphold their respective economic, commercial, technological, and military privileges. This order was built from European colonial empires, and later handed over to the US by the middle of the 20th century. It derives its power from exacerbating inequality and dominance over the states of the Global South, keeping access to capital conditional on ideological, military, and political subjugation. In maintaining this system, only states that have endorsed the order, such as for example Japan or South Korea, have been allowed to rise to prosperity, while states that have opposed it have been deliberately isolated from key financial and technological markets. The US sits atop the hierarchy, with a network of vassals who maintain their privileges by being part of the system, in particular the former empires of Britain, France, Germany and, as mentioned, Japan.	”
—Yang Sheng and Li Xuanmin, Sep 26, 2023 [13]

“	The war in Ukraine compounded by last week’s attacks on Israel may have far-reaching impacts on energy and food markets, global trade, and geopolitical relationships…This may be the most dangerous time the world has seen in decades.	”
—Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan, October 13, 2023^[55]

“	We have definitely lost the battle in the Global South. All the work we have done with the Global South [over Ukraine] has been lost . . . Forget about rules, forget about world order. They won’t ever listen to us again.	”
—Anonymouses senior G7 diplomat quoted in the Financial Times, October 17, 2023^[56]

“	We were in a post-war period for 50 years where it worked pretty damn well, but that’s sort of run out of steam. Sort of run out of steam. It needs a new — a new world order in a sense, like that was a world order.	”
—Joe Biden, October 20, 2023^[57]

“	We have arrived at a historic juncture. Perhaps, the most dangerous, unpredictable and, at the same time, the most important decade since the end of World War II lies ahead.	”
—Vladimir Putin, October 27, 2023.^[58]

“	The great powers will sooner or later agree on how they will live in the foreseeable future under new conditions. Washington cannot escape Russia, China and the countries of the Global South.	”
—Dmitri Medvedev, October 29, 2023^[59]

“	There is a chain of conflicts affecting the whole world...In fact, World War III is already underway...We instinctively expect that the war will begin just like the Great War or the Second World War...The international order is breaking down...It was an unpleasant one, based on the fear of mutual destruction, but manageable...Wars in the Middle East have erupted before, but the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the United States of America (USA) intervened and extinguished them until the next conflict...And now I don’t see even a temporary settlement mechanism.	”
—Fyodor Lukyanov, Presidium-Chairman of the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy (SVOP), October 31, 2023.^[60]

“	The United States and its NATO allies served notice Tuesday that they will formally suspend their participation in the 1990 Conventional Forces in Europe treaty limiting conventional forces in Europe, marking the demise of another landmark arms control agreement.	”
—U.S., NATO to Suspend Participation in Landmark Cold War Arms Treaty, Michael R. Gordon, Wall Street Journal, Nov. 7, 2023. www.wsj.com

“	The rapid rise of the BRICS is transforming the global economy, with the group’s share of world GDP in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP) set to rise well beyond of that of the Group of Seven (G7) major advanced economies.	”
—Bloomberg News, November 2023.^[61]

“	The Obama-Biden foreign policy agenda has ushered in a new world order devoid of American strength and leadership.	”
—Shawn Fleetwood, The Federalist, November 14, 2023.^[62]

“	This is one of the most dangerous times in the history of the United States.	”
—Rep. Mark Green, House DHS chair, November 15, 2023.^[63]

THE LEADERS OF THE COLLECTIVE WEST WILL TWIST & TURN IN VAIN. Humiliation for all who worked to use Ukraine as a weapon against Russia is coming closer by the day. The political/geopolitical consequences of the West-promoted Ukrainian debacle will be immense.

“	Today, the world faces an inflection point, where the choices we make — including in the crises in Europe and the Middle East — will determine the direction of our future for generations to come.	”
—Joe Biden, November 18, 2023.^[64]

“	Future historians will point to Russia’s Special Military Operation in Ukraine and the ensuing effort led by the United States to destroy Russia economically through sanctions and militarily by using Ukraine as a proxy, as a watershed moment that changed the trajectory of world history.	”
—Larry Johnson, December 5, 2023. [14]

“	One of the most strategically significant battlefield humiliations inflicted upon NATO over the course of the Ukraine War: the progressively comprehensive defeat of their precision-guided strike missile inventory — ATACMS, HARMS, JDAMS, GMLRS fired from HIMARS, cruise missiles (Storm Shadow and SCALP). The Russians have demonstrated that they can routinely shoot down ANY species of strike missile the US/NATO can field against them — The significance of this battlefield development defies exaggeration. It alters the war-fighting calculus that has been assumed for many decades.	”
—William Schryver, December 21, 2023.^[65]

“	In the U.S. and in NATO countries, almost everyone knows that this is the end of the last 30 years [since the Soviet Union fell]. Now we’re going into some kind of a New Cold War.	”
—Antti Häkkänen, Finnish Defense Minister, December 21, 2023.^[66]

“	We need a generational change. I don't like to say "change of elites". People who have a different perception of what is happening around them should come to the leadership and decision-making centres. It's going to happen sooner or later....It is extremely difficult for the US ruling circles to come to terms with the changing world order. And many of them are simply organically incapable of moving away from thinking in terms of their own superiority. More and more states in the world are not inclined to ingratiate themselves with Washington.	”
—Sergey Ryabkov, Russian deputy foreign minister, December 22, 2023.^[67]

2024

“	I think it’s a World War. It looks to me like the Thirty Years' War in the 17th century. For me, the modern age started at this time. So for me it’s now, philosophically speaking, the end of the modern era. The modern era started with the Thirty Years’ War, and it will take another Thirty Years’ War to end it.	”
—Alexei Arestovich, January 14, 2024.^[68]

“	How somebody who has zero background in anything, literally, other than a compilation of a facts smugly known in the West as "the range of interpretations" can offer opinions on WW II, or somebody being "military historian" without having at least introductory course in Operational Research and Operational Planning and engineering defies my understanding. Especially, against the background of SMO, which produced a deadly shock for anyone in the West with IQ higher than the room temperature. We are talking about things of a scale of discarding most, not all, humanities studies in the West as degree mills for pseudo-scientific fraud.	”
—Andrei Martynov, January 16, 2024.^[69]

“	A Russian victory will cause other nations to rethink their relations with Washington.	”
—Jake Sullivan, January 20, 2024.^[70]

“	This war has utterly reshaped the global military and trade alliances, and the sanctions that followed have as well. And in total, they have upended the world economy. The post-world War II economic order, the system that guaranteed prosperity in the West for more than 80 years, is coming apart very fast, and along with it the dominance of the US dollar,	”
—Tucker Carlson, February 6, 2024.^[71]

“	To those who don’t want to find and spend money on the production of weapons, the era of peace in Europe is over.	”
—Ukraine foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba, February 16, 2024.^[72]

“	The unipolar era is over. Going forward, the options are stark: the United States can selectively retrench and control costs and risks, or it can stick with global primacy and lurch from crisis to crisis.	”
—Stephen Wertheim, author of Tomorrow, The World: The Birth Of U.S. Global Supremacy, February 14, 2024.^[73]

“	The political/geopolitical consequences of the West-promoted Ukrainian debacle will be immense.	”
—Aearnur’s Newsletter, February 29, 2024.^[74]

“	Russia is taking good advantage of our mistakes. The blame about double standards is something that we need to address and not only with nice words. It is clear that the wind is blowing against the West.	”
—Josep Borrell, EU minister for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, February 18. 2024.^[75]

“	The heretofore reigning global hegemon designed to inflict upon Russia — its long-time nemesis — a decisive strategic defeat that would deliver the greatest spoil ever taken, and thereby consolidate its power base into the foreseeable future and beyond....In its hubris-fueled determination to prove it could do what no western hegemon had been able to accomplish over the past five centuries, the rapidly eroding Anglo-American empire will now be compelled to swallow the bitter pill of decisive strategic defeat on the same eastern European steppes where its predecessors were served their own banquet of consequences. And the Russians, as is their wont, will pass down new hymns of victory to their children’s children's children, for generations to come.	”
—William Schryver, February 28, 2024.^[76]

“	The era of Western domination has ended and a new world order is emerging.	”
—Victor Orban, March 4, 2024.^[77]

“	The times of peace are over, the post-war era is over. We live in new times - in the pre-war era.	”
—Donald Tusk, March 9, 2024.^[78] www.ukrinform.net

“	One is constantly reading in the papers that Vladimir Putin is a threat to the Western order....But the larger threat to the Western order is the hubris of those who run it....Fighting a war based on values requires good values...At a bare minimum it requires an agreement on the values being spread, and the United States is further from such agreement than it has ever been in its history.	”
—Christopher Caldwell, March 9, 2024.^[79]

“	The United States has destroyed international cooperation on ant-terrorism. And it is all destroyed through no fault of our own.	”
—Anatoly Antonov, Russian Ambassador to the United States, March 24, 2024.^[80]

“	We are living in the most critical moment since the end of the second world war...I know it sounds devastating, especially to people of the younger generation, but we have to mentally get used to the arrival of a new era...The prewar era.	”
—Donald Tusk, March 29, 2024.^[81]

“	This new civilizational rise is increasingly replacing that unipolar world with what's called a multipolar world... the unipolar world is over. The sooner permanent Washington comes to terms with that, the sooner this tragedy of great power politics will come to an end.	”
—Dr. Steve Turley, April 4, 2024.^[82]

“	Recent events, however, may very well be creating risks that could eclipse anything since World War II - we should not take them lightly.	”
—Jamie Dimon, CEO JPMorgan Chase, April 9, 2024.^[83]

Antony Blinken observing his proudest accomplishment.^[84]

“	If Ukraine falls...it will be a turning point in history, the moment when the West finally loses its post-war hegemony.	”
—Boris Johnson, April 12, 2024.^[85]

“	The US Army's power to rapidly defeat enemies may be a thing of the past.	”
—Michael Peck, Business Insider, April 14, 2024.^[86]

“	The world you knew no longer exists.	”
—Sam Faddis, April 15, 2024.^[87]

“	Everything we're witnessing over the last 12 months is indicating that the international global system is on the brink of collapse.	”
—Agnes Callamard, Amnesty International Secretary General, April 23, 2024.^[88]

“	Europe is mortal, it can die...In the next decade, the risk is immense that we will be weakened, even relegated...The era of basing our production in China, of delegating our defense to the United States, and of getting our energy from Russia is over...The rules of the game have changed.	”
—Emmanuel Macron, April 25, 2024.^[89]

“	For years the order that has governed the global economy since the second world war has been eroded. Today it is close to collapse.	”
—The Economist, May 9, 2024.^[90]

“	The Pentagon will be the last to sing a requiem for the dearly departed unipolar world. May sanity prevail.	”
—Ray McGovern, May 17, 2024.^[91]

“	Europe as a partner is not relevant for us for at least one generation.	”
—Sergei Lavrov, Mau 18, 2024.^[92]

“	For years, the populations of the world have been fed on a diet of pseudo reality in which a Ukraine victory was so much taken for granted that it is difficult for most Westerners to digest the truth of the matter. Most have combined a morality desiring that Ukraine must (i.e. should) win with an assumption that, therefore, it will win. But morality comes out of reality; it doesn’t shape reality in the way that facts do. Just because someone believes that it is right for certain outcomes to be achieved; it doesn’t follow that these will be achieved. It is as if (many) human beings are now so childlike that they demand that reality fits their desires rather than accepting that they must adapt to the reality that embraces and engulfs them. I think this is one of the things that humanity in the West has forgotten. In the sense that it panders to peoples’ desires rather than what is possible for them. Wokeness is symptomatic of this error in thinking.	”
—Dr. Rob Campbell, May 24, 2024.^[93]

“	We are frankly at the end of what they affectionately call the post war liberal political order or World Order.	”
—Col. Douglas Macgregor, May 24, 2024.^[94]

“	It is evident that the entire system of Euro-Atlantic security is crumbling before our eyes. At present, it is practically non-existent and must be rebuilt. To achieve this, we must collaborate with interested countries, of which there are many, to develop our own strategies for ensuring security in Eurasia and then present them for broader international deliberation.	”
—Vladimir Putin, June 14, 2024.^[95]

“	Unfortunately, we are heading for a real world war, a full-blown war. The foundation of the old world system is bulging at the seams, and conflicts will break out. It is necessary to block the way leading to such a war … conflicts are already brewing and taking place in all areas.	”
—Sergei Karaganov, Honorary Chair of Russia’s Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, June 21, 2024.^[96]

“	The future of the “rules-based international order” is being decided in the black soil of Novorossiya.	”
—Pepe Escobar, July 9, 2024.^[97]

“	The first lesson is that society must agree to temporarily give up a range of freedoms for the sake of survival, because modern wars are total, requiring the efforts not only of the army, but also of society as a whole...Politicians can and should mobilize society.	”
—Gen. Valerii Zaluzhnyi, July 22, 2024.^[98]

“	The United States confronts the most serious and the most challenging threats since the end of World War II. The United States could in short order be drawn into a war across multiple theaters with peer and near-peer adversaries, and it could lose.	”
—Commission on the National Defense Strategy Final Report, July 29, 2024.^[99]

“	We may be at an inflection point that will determine the fate of the free and democratic world for decades.	”
—Jamie Dimon, August 2, 2024.^[100]

“	This is the end of Bretton Woods.	”
—L. Todd Wood, August 5, 2024.^[101]

“	The life you had before is over.	”
—Michael Yon, August 8, 2024.^[102]

“	The world is changing like never before. We are currently witnessing the unraveling of over a hundred years of globalist infrastructure right before our very eyes. The tides of history are turning, and the age of empires, kingdoms and civilizations is rising. Ever since Russia's invasion Ukraine, we've been hearing terms like multipolarity and a new multi-polar world order every day, signifying the end of a unipolar liberal world order - a world that was governed by a single superpower.	”
—Dr. Steve Turley, August 12, 2024.^[103]

Growth of Western fascism.

“	The conflict between Russia and the West won’t end after Kiev is no longer viable as a proxy...The "Ukraine crisis" is not actually an accurate name for what is happening now in relations between Russia and the West....This confrontation is global...It touches virtually every functional area – from finance to pharmaceuticals to sport – and spans many geographical regions...The current situation in the northwest is forcing Moscow to strengthen its strategy of military deterrence against the enemy...Official warnings have been issued that, under certain conditions, military facilities in the territory of NATO countries will become legitimate targets...A modernization of Russia's nuclear doctrine has been announced...Atomic deterrence is becoming a more active tool of Russian strategy...It should be borne in mind that Russia's confrontation with the collective West will continue after the end of active military operations against Ukraine...From the Arctic, which is a separate area of rivalry, to the Black Sea, there is already a solid, unbroken dividing line...European security is no longer a relevant concept, and Eurasian security, including the European component, is a matter for the distant future...A long period of "non-world peace" lies ahead, during which Russia will have to rely on its own forces and capabilities rather than on agreements with Western states for its security.	”
—Dmitry Trenin, August 15, 2024.^[104]

“	Washington's eight years of preparing Ukraine and its armed forces for war with Russia was a mistake of historic proportions, due to its misperception of American military power based on its 1991 Gulf War victory against a minor military player. Washington believed its own propaganda about crippling sanctions on Russia, about the viability of its Ukrainian proxy army, and the economic and military weakness of Russia, spelling doom for the American empire and its "rules-based order"....The massive destruction of the West's high-cost weaponry ensued, annulling their vaunted superiority. Western armaments, from anti-tank Javelins to APC Bradleys to air defense complexes such as the Patriot PAC3 or NASAMS, performed dismally and proved unready for what has become the largest military conflict in Europe since WWII. By 2023 the Kiev regime could no longer exist without the West's support, both financial and in war materiel. By 2024 Russia will have not just exhausted Ukraine, but also demilitarized NATO as a whole, exposing the industrial and military impotence of the US and its European vassals.... The finance and tech-based economy is not a real economy; expeditionary warfare and doctrine is not real war.	”
—America's Final War – by Andrei Martyanov (Author), August 15, 2024.^[105]

“	Western civilization appears to be on the cusp of a new Dark Age — for any government that arrests and locks up its own citizens for saying, writing, or thinking the “wrong” opinions or beliefs can no longer say it stands for freedom or human rights.	”
—Standing for Freedom Center Staff, August 16, 2024.^[106]

“	Look at what's happening in geopolitics. We're on the verge of World War III right now. We got a dementia patient sitting in the president's chair. You cannot trust the mainstream media or the political class or the big corporations out there because they've all got an agenda. Or more precisely, they're part of an aristocracy that is trying to bleed the peasants dry. And we're the peasants. You know, the US took centuries to accumulate $11 trillion of debt. Since 2020, we've taken on another $11 trillion. That is a death spiral. The financial system is ready to spin out of control. The experiment that began in 1971 when we went off the gold standard and gave everybody fiat currencies is ending. This is financial and economic history they're going to be writing textbooks about this for the next two centuries.	”
—John Robino, August 24, 2024.^[107]

“	Something fundamental has changed in the course of the last two and a half years. History will go back and mark this as a significant moment of transformation in the world order that would be comparable to the post-World War II period with the creation of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the United Nations, these other Western controlled institutions that have been the foundation for the existing international rules-based order.	”
—Larry Johnson, August 30, 2024.^[108]

“	In recent years, despite the complex nature of Russian-American relations, countering international terrorism has remained one of the few areas in which expert consultations and practical cooperation between special services have continued. At present, the United States has interrupted all bilateral contacts and is trying to squeeze Russia out of the established international formats of cooperation in this area.	”
—Yuri Kokov, Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, September 9, 2022.^[109]

“	It seems that… Washington perfectly understands the situation on the battlefield when every day Russian troops liberate more and more settlements in Donbass. However, politicians are extremely pleased with the death of Slavs on both sides of the line of contact. They openly proclaim a simple task – to preserve the old system of international relations where America used to dominate.	”
—Anatoly Antonov, September 12, 2024.^[110]

“	Russians say there's nothing to talk about with Zelensky. What difference does it make? The talk is between Moscow and Washington. Period. All those European chihuahuas are absolutely inconsequential. They are nobodies. The only communication which can happen, and again it's not going to be negotiations, will be Russia dictating the terms of the surrender. Period. Because the United States in no position militarily, economically, psychologically, or morally to demand anything. They ran themselves into this dead end.	”
—Andrei Martyanov, September 26, 2024.^[111]

“	The rest of the non-Western world can see the coming disaster and is getting out of the splash zone. This is done by constructing a parallel international economic system with new supply chains, tech hubs, energy pipelines, a grain corridor, new commodity exchanges, new bimodal transportation corridors, development banks, digital currencies, payment systems, insurance systems and other important components of the international economy. Much of the decoupling from the US, including de-dollarisation, is being facilitated by BRICS which creates the economic institutions for a multipolar world order.	”
—Glenn Diesen, October 2, 2024.^[112]

“	Today the world is living through the 'multipolar moment'. Shifting towards the multi-polar world order is a natural part of power rebalancing, which reflects objective changes in the world economy, finance and geopolitics. The West waited longer than the others, yet it has also started to realize that this process is irreversible.	”
—Sergei Lavrov, October 7, 2024.^[113]

“	The most important question to be answered on Election Day is whether the United States will seek a negotiated settlement to its proxy war with Russia or pursue its current policy of serial escalation in Ukraine. That is the only choice that involves an immediate and potentially existential threat to the nation.	”
—Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, October 14, 2024.^[114]

“	The different media will have their work cut out for them in deciding how to cover the probable vast changes in geopolitics that appear to be coming fast. The Mainstream Media (MSM), Mainstream Alternative Media (M-ALT-M), and Alternative Alternative Media (A-ALT-M) will have to face judgment of their analytical prowess.	”
—Observer R, October 15, 2024.^[115]

“	Remember 1940. In three weeks, Americans will not have a comparably reassuring choice when they select the president who will determine the nation’s conduct during World War III, which has begun.	”
—George Will, October 16, 2024.^[116]

“	The world has changed significantly...The upcoming US presidential elections will not be the most important event of the year for the world community and will not determine the further course of history...No matter how much Washington would like it to be...The BRICS Summit will be that event.	”
—Valentina Matviyenko, October 16, 2024.^[117]

“	The BRICS countries are in fact the drivers of global economic growth. It is within BRICS that the main increase in global GDP will be generated in the foreseeable future.	”
—Vladimir Putin, October 19, 2024.^[118]

“	The US sanctions brought to bear on Russia at the start of the special military operation in February 2022 have accelerated the development of BRICS, which is what we're seeing today.	”
—Larry Johnson, October 22, 2024.^[119]

“	The world economy is set to rely even more heavily on the BRICS group of emerging economies to drive expansion, rather than their wealthier Western peers, according to the International Monetary Fund's latest forecasts.	”
—Bloomberg News, October 23, 2024.^[120]

“	World War III has never been closer.	”
—Donald Trump, October 24, 2024.^[121]

“	World War III has already begun.	”
—Jamie Dimon, October 24, 2024.^[122]

“	Today it is clear that we are in a multipolar world,.	”
—Mark Milley, October 31, 2024.^[123]

“	The United States is no longer the hegemonic power in the world...You have had the rise of powerful states, like China and Russia...We've had the breakdown of the liberal international order...We don't have an agreement about what those rules are.	”
—Michael McFaul, November 3, 2024.^[124]

“	Pragmatists who recognize the fact of the transition to a new world economic order are coming to power in the USA. Brzezinski's strategy of defeating Russia, destroying Iran and isolating China, as expected, only strengthened China, which has become a global leader. Together with India, it will form a new bipolar center of the new world economic system. The USA can integrate into it as another center of the world economy if it abandons imperialism and stops the global hybrid war. It is in the US national interest that Trump liberate the US from the ostrich [ Straussian ] sect that has saddled it....The world will become polycentric and polycurrency, the significance of national sovereignty and international law will be restored.	”
—Sergey Glazyev, November 6, 2024.^[125]

At the Valdai Conference on November 7, 2024 Vladimir Putin reiterated six principles of international relations which he first articulated in October 2023.^[126]

Openness to interaction is the most important value for the overwhelming majority of countries and peoples. Attempts to erect artificial barriers slow down normal and mutually beneficial economic development. The disruption of ties is especially dangerous in times of natural disasters and social upheavals.
The diversity of the world is a prerequisite for its sustainable development. A model of one country or a relatively small part of humanity should not be imposed as something universal on the rest of the world.
The world can successfully develop only under conditions of maximum representativeness. No one has the right to govern the world on behalf of others.
Security for all without exception is a key principle. The security of some cannot be ensured at the expense of the security of others. The bloc approach, the legacy of the colonial era and the Cold War contradicts the nature of the new international system.
Justice for all. The gap between the 'golden billion' and the rest of humanity is fraught with the growth of political contradictions and the deepening of migration problems.
Equality. No one is going to submit and make their interests dependent on stronger states.

“	We are going into 2025 on a trip that is incalculable in terms of what's going to happen. It's going to be one wildcard played after another. It's going to be a radical time ahead. I have to tell you that in my 45 years of doing trends research, I have never seen such a volatile time in my life.	”
—Gerald Celente, November 15, 2024.^[127]

“	[T]oday a new version of the Fundamentals of State Policy in the Sphere of Nuclear Deterrence was approved. The use of the Alliance missiles in this way can now be qualified as an attack by the bloc countries on Russia. In this case, the right arises to launch a retaliatory strike with weapons of mass destruction on Kiev and the main NATO facilities, wherever they are. And this is already WWIII.	”
—Dmitri Medvedev, November 19, 2024.^[128]

“	The old regime is dying. The globalists have lost. The population everywhere doesn't want them, and it is they who are operating on borrowed time.	”
—Col. Douglas Macgregor, November 20, 2024.^[129]

“	I believe that in 2024 we can absolutely definitely consider that the third world war has begun.	”
—Valerii Zaluzhny, November 21, 2024.^[130]

“	US policymakers fail to learn the lessons of history and understand that great power alliances transformed two regional conflicts in Eastern Europe into unnecessary world wars that cost the lives of well over 100 million people and now US membership in NATO threatens to transform the war in Ukraine into a Third World War that could cost the lives of ten times more.	”
—David T. Pyne, November 21, 2024.^[131]

“	The clown puppet comedian actor who plays the piano with his penis has pulled the US and the UK into a conflict with Russia. Unbelievable.	”
—Alex Christoforou, November 22, 2024.^[132]

“	Some analysts now argue that World War III is no longer a distant possibility - it has already begun, just in ways more subtle than Western societies experienced at the start of the 20th century's global conflicts. The early stages of World War III may not be fought not through the conventional means of tanks and trenches beyond the frontlines of Ukraine, but through hybrid threats, covert battles and ideological jockeying in the digital arena.	”
—Daily Mail, December 1, 2024.^[133]

“	What started as two wars in two theaters is now one war in two separate theaters...We need to ensure that it does not expand into a third theater...How soon might that happen?...I think it’s actually 2025.	”
—Rahm Emanuel, December 3, 2024.^[134]

“	Are we headed toward an unprecedented conflict between Russia and the United States? Is there any way to peel Russia back from the east, from the sphere of China, back into the West? Is that alliance permanent? And does the election of Donald Trump mean an end to this war, which is reshaping the world, the US economy, the global economy, and risking the life of every person on this planet? Is that possible?	”
—Tucker Carlson, December 3, 2024.^[135]

“	The Russian military is now the single most potent and battle-hardened fighting force on the planet. The Russians will dictate the terms of surrender in this war because their strength affords them that privilege, and there is nothing the US and its impotent European vassals can do to alter that reality. That said, a decisive strategic defeat is going to be a very bitter pill to swallow for this second Trump administration. Hopefully they won't opt to set the world on fire in a fit of humiliated madness.	”
—Will Schryver, December 3, 2024.^[136]

“	The sudden collapse of Bashar al-Assad's despotic regime in Syria this weekend highlights the interconnectedness of a growing number of global conflicts, revealing a hard truth that most of us would rather not think about too deeply: World War III has already begun.	”
—Bryce Hoffman, December 8, 2024.^[137]

“	Trump's administration has come to power in the United States. We will see how governance in the US will change under the Trump administration. The world is changing. The next 2-3 months are extremely important. We, as Turkiye, are doing our best and conveying our messages accordingly.	”
—Recep Erdogan, December 8, 2024.^[138]

“	Nuclear war is good, it benefits us.	”
—Yevgeny Karas, Zelensky Presidential Aide, December 17, 2024.^[139]

2025

“	The world that existed in 1991-2022 does not exist anymore. It's not coming back. You can just invade your neighbor. You can just fire missiles at international shipping lanes. You can just threaten to annex members of your military alliance. "You can just do things", as the techbros like to say. The mirage of a post-historical order that only has to be policed from time to time but is never seriously challenged has disappeared. What did you think canceling the End of History meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays? It's not pleasant to be suddenly confronted with all of the above. It's not pleasant to have to admit to yourself that your existence was a coddled theme park that is existentially dependent on the relative position of someone else and how he feels about that relative position. America's vassals WILL have to confront this state of things and make hard decisions about their future. This means reckoning with their geopolitical impotence and either embracing dependency with open eyes or seeking pathways to autonomy that will inevitably involve risk, sacrifice, and a recalibration of their national priorities. The era of coasting on borrowed security and ideological rhetoric is over. What lies ahead is a world where historical agency must be reclaimed or forever relinquished, and for many, the question may not be whether they are ready to make that leap, but whether they even remember how. America has now understood this -- and is mentally preparing to switch back to the cold logic that comes with actual History. The times, they are a-changin'.	”
—Russians With Attitude, January 8, 2025.^[140]

“	We will never return to the state that was until 2022. Never. Everyone needs to understand that.	”
—Dmitri Rogozin, January 14, 2025.^[141]

“	World War 3 is already well underway, even though most don’t recognize it. Russia, China, and their allies want to transform the current US-led world order that has been in place since the end of World War 2 from unipolar to multipolar—giving themselves a bigger seat at the table in the process. The US and its allies want the unipolar status quo to prevail. World War 3 is unlikely to evolve into a direct kinetic war between the US, Russia, and China because that could invite nuclear Armageddon, where everyone loses. Instead, World War 3 is playing out on different levels—proxy wars, economic wars, financial wars, cyber wars, biological wars, deniable sabotage, and information wars. This is World War 3. It's happening right now and rapidly escalating.	”
—Nick Giambruno, January 21, 2025.^[142]

“	I assure you, Trump, with his character and persistence, will restore order quite quickly. And all of them, you'll see, soon all of them will stand at the master's feet and gently wag their tails.	”
—Vladimir Putin, February, 1, 2025.^[143]

Trump-Zelensky Oval Office meeting, February 28, 2025.

“	Having come to power, Trump blamed the previous elites, consisting of globalists and liberals, for the failure. The example of Russia made American conservatives realize the value of their own history, which was almost destroyed by the globalist agenda. We taught the US a lesson – and even Trump's "make America great again" echoes our "Russia is rising from its knees." The confrontation between the Russian Federation and the United States and Europe will continue. This will be a war for political and spiritual heritage, for the traditions of the Christian world. That is why it is important for Russians not to allow leftist, "red" ideas to take hold, which in the past almost destroyed our country. Globalists have been trying to demobilize the world for half a century, but the peoples have preserved their spiritual, cultural and scientific potential. Looking at us, they are ready to defend their independence themselves - it is against this background that the struggle for primogeniture between Russia and America will unfold. Russia has forced the collective West to respect the rules of the game or face the consequences. The Special Military Operation isn't just about Ukraine; it's the linchpin of a larger struggle for sovereignty against the hollow empire of globalism. Putin's 2007 Munich speech was prophetic that the West ignored at its peril. Now, the same elites who dismissed it find themselves floundering in a crisis of their own making. Trumpism and the conservative awakening in the West are echoes of Russia's defiance, a recognition that globalist elites, from Washington to Davos, have hollowed out traditions, sovereignty, and identity. The war isn't just territorial; it's cultural, spiritual, and civilizational. As Russia rises, it shows the world that independence isn't just possible, it's existential.	”
—Anton Belikov, January 23, 2025.^[144]

“	U.S. diplomacy has been active in crippling the political leadership of former labor and social democratic parties in Europe and other countries so thoroughly that it no longer seems to matter what voters want. That is what America's National Endowment Democracy (NED) is for, along with its mainstream media. But what is being shaken up is not merely America's unipolar dominance of the West and its sphere of influence, but the worldwide structure of international trade and financial relations – and inevitably, military relations and alliances as well.	”
—Michael Hudson, January 24, 2025.^[145]

“	The ultimate problem now—and the primary reason for why time is now on Russia's side—is because the only thing that can possibly save Ukraine at this point is the political will and unity of Europe. But the problem is: Europe is falling apart, with anti-establishment forces and parties quickly rising to depose the incumbent globalist tyrants. As such, the longer the war goes on, the more chance that Europe cracks and solidarity gets flushed down the drain, with Ukraine being left with no hope at salvation from their 'big brothers' at all.	”
—Simplicius, January 26, 2025.^[146]

“	It’s not normal for the world to simply have a unipolar power – that was an anomaly. It was a product of the end of the Cold War, but eventually you were going to reach back to a point where you had a multipolar world, multi-great powers in different parts of the planet.	”
—Secretary of State Marco Rubio, January 30, 2025.^[147]

“	The United States has initiated a change that puts the whole Western world's system of arguments, value system, and way of thinking on a new track...This process is progressing much faster than many people thought...We call this the Trump Tornado.	”
—Victor Orban, February 14, 2025.^[148]

A European perspective.

“	I think we are in a new era where, by and large, international relations aren't going to be determined by rules and multilateral institutions. They're going to be determined by strongmen and deals. I think of the Yalta Treaty at the end of 1945 where three strong men as they were then, on behalf of the big countries, the strong countries, decided the fate of small countries. I think that's Donald Trump's mindset. It's certainly Putin's mindset. It's Xi Jinping's mindset. It's not Europe's mindset. That's the world we're going into for a whole set of reasons, and I don't think we're going back to the one we had before...the one we had before was based on the unipolar moment, where America had both the means and the will to assert itself across the world. It created what we call globalization, the international security structure. It's now a significantly smaller, relative player, relative to others than it was. And of course it's will to be that person has diminished. So it still remains a prodigious country - underestimate America at your peril. But its ability to make the rules across the world, that's not there now.	”
—Alex Younger, former MI6 chief, February 21, 2025.^[149]

“	The world is not returning to the old Cold War dynamic. Trump's attempts to redefine Western alliances are part of a broader, chaotic transformation of global politics. China, the European Union, and Russia all face internal and external pressures that will shape the coming decade. The United States, despite Trump's ambitions, cannot reshape the world alone.	”
—Fyodor Lukyanov, chairman of the Russian Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, February 26, 2025.^[150]

“	A direct blow to the heart of democracy worldwide!...I have one message left!...If democracy in Romania falls, the entire democratic world will fall!...This is just the beginning...It's that simple!...Europe is now a dictatorship; Romania is under tyranny!	”
—Calin Georgescu, March 9, 2025.^[151]

“	If we had made the deal in April of 2022 in the Istanbul deal, Ukraine would have had a far, far better deal than they're going to get now.	”
—Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, March 16, 2025.^[152]

“

Sanctions and restrictions are the reality of the existing new stage of development that the entire world, the entire global economy, has entered. The global competitive struggle has intensified, assuming increasingly sophisticated and uncompromising forms.

Thus, literally before our eyes, a new spiral of economic rivalry is unfolding, and under these conditions, it is almost embarrassing to recall the norms and rules of the World Trade Organization, once zealously promoted by the West. Once… When? When these rules advantaged them… As soon as they became disadvantageous, everything began to change. And all these negotiations stalled. And, in fact, no one needs them anymore.

This is evident, and I have emphasised it repeatedly: a return to pre-existing conditions is impossible. We should not anticipate fully unfettered trade, payments, or capital flows, nor rely on Western mechanisms to safeguard investor and entrepreneur rights.

”

—Vladimir Putin, March 18, 2025.^[153]

“	The globalists like [Jeffrey] Goldberg and his compatriots have gotten almost everything wrong about US foreign policy over the past 30 years.	”
—Laura Ingraham, March 26, 2025.^[154]

“	NATO? What’s that? If you were to ask in Washington these days, you shouldn’t be surprised to hear that it’s actually the North American Treaty Organization or even the North American Trump Organization. Certainly, many in Europe who, not so very long ago, imagined the United States as their prime protector and benefactor are now facing a distinctly new world.	”
—John Feffer, March 30, 2025.^[155]

“	We recognize the responsibility of Moscow and Beijing to maintain close coordination in the international arena...The majority of countries perceive this as perhaps the most significant stabilizing factor during these challenging times in global politics.	”
—Sergei Lavrov, April 1, 2025.^[156]

“	The world as we knew it is gone.	”
—Keir Starmer, April 5, 2025.^[157]

“	We see that the world is now being restructured...The world order we knew after the Second World War is now dead...The leaders of the new world order will be Russia, the United States and China.	”
—Javier Milei, Aoril 14, 2025. ^[158]

“	The era of naïve globalization is over.	”
—Donald Tusk, April 16, 2025.^[159]

“	The West as we knew it no longer exists...The world has become a globe also geopolitically, and today our networks of friendship span the globe, as you can see in the debate about tariffs.	”
—Ursula von der Leyen, April 17, 2025.^[160]

“	From now on I say openly and with pride – the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia considers Iran a friend, brother, and honorable neighbor.	”
—Alfredo Jalife-Rahme, Saudi Minister of Defense, April 17, 2017.^[161]

Trump and Zelensky meet in the Vatican, April 26, 2025.

“	We are witnessing a major turning point in the history of humanity.	”
—Michael Snyder, April 23, 2025.^[162]

“	All the panic being spread by western elites and their media echo chambers about the alleged existential battle between democracy and autocracy is nonsense – a rhetorical device used to scare ordinary people, while perpetuating a new western arms race to perpetual conflict.	”
—Marco Carnelos, April 25, 2025.^[163]

“	Washington continues to operate as if it inhabits the post-Cold War unipolar world — a world where it could dictate trade terms while sitting on mammoth debt, running trillion-dollar deficits, threatening allies and rivals alike while its industrial base withered, and imagine that China would endure economic warfare simply to keep selling goods to Walmart or buying U.S. Treasury bonds. That world is gone.	”
—Anonymous, April 25, 2025.^[164]

“	If Ukraine falls, NATO is dead.	”
—Robert Schneider, April 26, 2025.^[165]

“	It has only been 100 days since Trump took office, and it seems that 10 years have passed, the United States has changed the world, and we have fallen into the "rabbit hole".	”
—Yan Mo, April 29, 2025. ^[166]

“

We have to see this war on three levels. First of all, this is the military conflict along the front line of 1,300 kilometers. The second level is the worldwide economic warfare against the Russian Federation, with more than 29,000 sanctions against Russia. And the third level, that is the propaganda war. And so on all these three levels you have different points which have to be kept in mind.

The first is the Ukraine civil war between the eastern part of the country and the Galatian part of the country. The second level is the war between Ukraine and Russia and the separated Republics of Lugansk and Donetsk which started in April 2014 in the first epoch until 2022, and then went further with the attack of Russia in trying to help those separated Republics Lugansk and Donetsk against the attacks of the government in Kiev. The third level is the fight between the unipolar world under the leadership of the United States and the British countries against the emerging countries in the southeast of the globe. The fourth is the economic warfare between the collective West and all the other regions of the Global South.

And the last level, there is a class fight inside the Western countries - the elites against their own people, because in this war, this is a transfer of wealth and economic means from the working people to the economic elites, and from Europe to the United States.

”

—Patrick Baab, April 30, 2025. ^[167]

“	The inexorable decline of the American Empire has arrived at an Imperial Paradox. It must either fight a war and die, or not fight a war and yet still die.	”
—William Schryver, May 22, 2025.^[168]

“	The era of uncontested US dominance is over.	”
—J.D. Vance, May 23, 2025.^[169]

“	As Putin and Xi push for a "multipolar" world where liberal democracy is just one model among many, their challenge to Western Enlightenment ideals is gaining momentum – fueled by Trump's second presidency and surging "radical conservativism" in Europe.	”
—Jussi Backman, June 4, 2025.^[170]

“	If there's one thing that the Russians have demonstrated is the seriousness with which they address military power and the security of their country that should be taken very seriously in the West. It's not, and the West would do well to imitate the Russians.	”
—Douglas Macgregor, June 10, 2025.^[171]

“	World War III is already underway...We need to declare mobilisation...We need to prepare at least half a million people in advance...But realistically one million people.	”
—Major General Apti Alaudinov, June 13, 2025.^[172]

“	The war in Ukraine has shattered a generation of digital-age delusions. It has exposed the brittle realities beneath Western military thinking and underscored the extent to which the strategic balance has shifted—less due to enemy cunning than to Western self-delusion.	”
—David Betz and Michael Rainsborough, June 15, 2025.^[173]

“	We're in the early stages of the kinetic part of the Third World War right now...This is much more dangerous than the late 1930s. Much more dangerous.	”
—Steve Bannon, June 18, 2025.^[174]

“	An American-led war on sovereignty has blighted the community of nations for many decades. Many of us know this, and those who missed this elephant in the living room should now face it squarely. In my view the United States and Israel just opened a decisive front in this long-running combat.	”
—Patrick Lawrence, June 29, 2025.^[175]

“	When it comes bankrupting our country with waste and graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy	”
—Elon Musk, July 5, 2025. ^[176]

“	That China's unyielding support for Russia is creating heightened instability and insecurity for Europe. We can say that China is de facto enabling Russia's war economy and we cannot accept this. And I've always said how China continues to interact with Putin's war will be a determining factor for EU-China relations going forward. If China claims to defend the international rules-based order, then it should unequivocally condemn Russia's gross violation of Ukraine's sovereignty, territorial integrity, and internationally recognized borders and act accordingly. And if China claims to defend multilateralism, then it must respect the rules and principles of international trade anchored in the WTO.	”
—Ursula von der Leyen, July 8, 2025.^[177]

“	What we are witnessing is an indirect war between the West and Russia – part of a much broader global confrontation...The West is fighting to preserve its dominance...And Russia, in defending itself, is asserting its sovereign right to exist on its own terms...This war will be long...And the United States – with Trump or without him – will remain our adversary...The outcome will shape not just the fate of Ukraine, but the future of Russia itself.	”
—Dmitry Trenin, July 9, 2025. ^[178]

“	Trump has basically failed to deal with the Ukraine problem and he's failed to improve relations with Russia as he promised he was going to do. It looked like he was off to an auspicious start at the beginning of his term, but everything has kind of gone to hell in a hand basket and we're in this real mess now.	”
—Prof. John Mearsheimer, July 11, 2025.^[179]

“	We are living through one of those moments in history that are pivotal. Call it a watershed moment. The world that was established in the aftermath of World War II, where basically we ended up pitting a superpower conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States, and the United States became the de facto if not the de jure leader of the so-called free world. That world is coming to an end now, and the United States is not really ready for that crisis. We're losing the control we thought we had. The supremacy of the dollar has given us the ability to run up these incredible deficits.	”
—Larry Johnson, July 11, 2025.^[180]

“	Great Britain and France blame Russia for dismantling their empires. And this historical memory, historical negativity still persists.	”
—Vladimir Putin, July 13, 2025.^[181]

“	Kaliningrad is 47 miles of territory surrounded by NATO countries. There is no reason why we can’t suppress the A2/AD zone^[183] from land, and we have already developed a plan of action.	”
—Gen. Christopher Donahue, July 18, 2025.^[182]

“	An attack on the Kaliningrad Region will mean an attack on Russia, with all due retaliatory measures stipulated, among other things, by its nuclear doctrine…. The American general should consider this before making such declarations.	”
—Leonid Slutsky, July 18, 2025.^[184]

“	Conceptually, this war is far bigger than Ukraine...Russia sees itself in a global conflict with the West, of which Ukraine is but one theater...Neither success nor failure in Ukraine will alter Russia's global calculus.	”
—United States Army in Europe, How Russia Fights, July 21, 2025.^[185]

“	This war is going badly. Ukraine/Israel/Iran/more, are the same war. The people who are pushing this are not good at winning wars. More accurately, their goals are not to win in ways we would call winning. They are good at starting and prolonging wars that weaken our nation and leave a trail of devastation internally and externally. The same people who push big pharma. Jabs. Race wars. None of this can be understood without significant historical context. The deepest standing currents of these war systems are about Routes and Resources. Battles between Oligarchs transcending national boundaries.	”
—Michael Yon, July 22, 2025.^[186]

“	Many political scientists, scientists and experts are seriously beginning to say that the Third World War is not only inevitable, but is already underway in new forms, starting with the Western aggression against Yugoslavia in 1999, then the aggression against Iraq, then the destruction of Libya, and the attack on Syria. All these countries in the Middle East are now in an alarming state. The territorial integrity of Iraq, Syria and Libya, which the West cares so much about only in the case of Ukraine, was seriously undermined in 2011 during the Arab Spring. These countries still remain in a "semi-disassembled state".	”
—Sergey Lavrov, July 28, 2024.^[187]

“	If, say, Germany attacks Kaliningrad, then Russia attacks Berlin and Berlin suddenly ceases to exist. And so that's the trigger, because that is what is written into the Russian defense doctrine. Read it. It's all there. You cannot threaten Russian sovereignty without having your sovereignty destroyed in return. It's as simple as that.	”
—Dmitry Orlov, July 28, 2026.^[188]

“

The U.S. and its allies could have preserved influence by transitioning to a new global model. But their elites are too embedded in the existing order to allow for meaningful reform. Instead, they’re attempting to freeze history in place, trying to preserve a crumbling economic reality through brute force.

This defensive posture only accelerates their decline. By refusing to accept change, they push others to embrace it even more aggressively-seeking «new justice» to replace the fossilized ideas of the past.

What makes this cycle unique is its global scale. This is not a series of isolated revolutions but a worldwide systemic rupture-one that combines elements of interstate warfare and civil strife in a tangled, borderless crisis.

That’s why calls for peace, or even temporary deals, are worth very little right now. No agreement will hold as long as the West remains committed to restoring a lost dominance-and as long as that dominance rests on a paralyzed, unsustainable system.

”

—John Baker, August 1, 2025.^[189]

“	We're already in World War III.	”
—Michael Yon, August 3, 2025.^[190]

“

The United States had a certain military dominance, especially in terms of military technologies, where they could intimidate everybody into complying with the US-centric global order. Those days are over. We've seen that the United States was not able to subdue the Taliban in Afghanistan after 20 years of trying. We saw that they were not able to subdue Ansar Allah in Yemen after more than 10 years of trying. They can't hope to defeat Iran militarily. They lost in a big way against Russia in Ukraine.

And so at that point, you have to rethink how you see the future in the world, because either you change course, or you stay on the road to perdition in the same way as the Western Roman Empire, where things go downhill to the point where you hit the Dark Ages and your whole economy collapses to almost nothing.

And so it seems to me that in the American political and financial circles, there's an awareness of this and a desire to change course.

”

—Alex Krainer, August 5, 2025.^[191]

“	The Kremlin has never budged from its core demands — demands rooted not in ideology, but in existential survival: recognition of Russia's new territories, now enshrined in its constitution; a neutral, demilitarized Ukraine; and, above all, the end of NATO encroachment on its borders. These weren't suggestions. They were lines drawn in steel. And yet now, suddenly, we hear that the United States — through its special envoy Steve Witkoff — has made an offer that Russia is "ready to consider." That’s not peace through strength. That's capitulation through exhaustion. Ushakov, ever the seasoned diplomat, described the meeting as "business-like and constructive." But behind the decorum lies a profound geopolitical shift. For the Kremlin to even entertain the American proposal, it must already carry implicit recognition of Russia's victories, on the battlefield, in the economic trenches, and across the shifting sands of the multipolar world. This isn't a negotiation between equals. It's a long-overdue adjustment of reality by an empire that no longer controls the narrative, the battlefield, or the future.	”
—Gary Nolan, August 7, 2025.^[192]

“	China and the United States will be setting the standards of international politics in the future. Russia, the world's most resource-rich country, may be labeled by Europeans as a pariah state and a malicious hub of all evil — but that does not change the fact that the age of postcolonial European dominance is ending, and Moscow will have no trouble playing its resource-market cards outside the shrinking European sphere of influence.	”
—Thomas Kolbe, August 9, 2025.^[193]

“	As it stands, and also considering the multiple ramifications of the hybrid war against BRICS, Alaska carries the potential of offering Washington a way out of the debris of a massive strategic defeat. Any analyst who tried to understand the special military operation from the beginning, in detail, could tell that Russia's war involved something much bigger than Ukraine. It was always about the burial of the "rules-based international order", in fact the whole old order architecture. That is happening as we speak in the black soil of Novorossiya. Strategic patience, in the end, does pay.	”
—Pepe Escobar, August 13, 2025.^[194]

“	One of the geopolitical realities that I just keep hammering at people is one in five in the world is Chinese, one in five is Indian, three in five is Asian. That leaves the Western Hemisphere, and the Europeans are part of the Western Hemisphere in this regard, second best. And they've got to start facing up to this. And they got to deal with it in a way other than with nuclear weapons and war, which means diplomacy, economic skill, financial skill and so forth, which we seem to have abandoned in the name of the other things, military force and sanctions.	”
—Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, August 15, 2025.^[195]

“	What this last three and a half years of war in Ukraine has exposed is the previous perception that the United States was the most powerful military in the world and that nobody could stand against it. What we've seen is, the war in Ukraine has exposed the lack of strategic depth in the United States, its inability to produce weapons to sustain a conflict that of a modern war. Then you couple that with what happened in the Red Sea, where the US Navy got driven out by the Houthies. So all of a sudden now it's that moment from the movie Wizard of Oz when they pull back the curtain and they pay no attention to that old man behind the curtain.	”
—Larry Johnson, August 15, 2025^[196]

“

Ukraine can have political independence or territorial integrity, but it cannot have both....This should have been obvious to anyone familiar with the relevant history and geography. ...risking World War Three for the sake of preserving Ukraine's indefensible Soviet-era borders, was always unrealistic — a corporate media fiction totally unmoored from reality.

EU leaders wagging their tails at the master's feet, August 18, 2025.^[198]

Reality is really the big difference between the Biden administration's approach to the war and Trump's approach. Biden and his top officials routinely talked about Ukraine in a way that was so unrealistic it bordered on the fantastical. More than once, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken dismissed the possibility of a negotiated peace until Ukraine could "defend itself" and Russia withdrew all its troops from Ukrainian territory. In June 2023 he told CBS News that any peace agreement must uphold the principles of sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence. Biden and Blinken repeatedly insisted that nobody can veto NATO membership. But of course that's not true; Putin vetoed NATO membership for Ukraine when he invaded the country.

And here we come to heart of the difference between Biden and Trump's view of the war, and of foreign policy broadly speaking. The establishment foreign policy experts that ran things during Biden's term (and Obama's) think the world operates according to theories and abstractions rather than solid realities like history and geography. They thought they could simply invoke something like sovereignty, without grappling with the possibility that sovereignty and territorial integrity, given Ukraine’s history and its untenable borders, might be mutually exclusive.

That mindset is representative of an entire class of policymakers in Washington who fail to grasp that the outcome of a war — any war — is far more likely to be decided by something as unmovable as a mountain range or a warm-water port than vague invocations of sovereignty. Likewise, a common language or a shared 1,000-year history between warring peoples are going to be more important factors than the bureaucratic minutiae of a multi-lateral security agreement drafted in Brussels.

After years of attrition warfare between Ukraine and Russia, bankrolled largely by western powers, the underlying factors in the conflict have not changed — and they never will. An adjustment of Ukraine’s borders, together with security guarantees from the U.S. and Europe, is actually in everyone’s best interests, not just Russia's. Ukraine as it’s currently constituted is indefensible, as events have shown. Lasting peace will require grappling with the history of Ukraine's borders and adjusting them to reflect solid realities — not some hazy platitudes about democracy and sovereignty. Those kind of abstractions are a big reason we're in this mess, and rejecting them is the only way we’re going to get out of it.

”

—John Daniel Davidson, August 18, 2025.^[197]

“	Ukraine's fate is going to determine geopolitics for the rest of the century. The post-war 1945 arrangement is over. It's done.	”
—Michael Rossi, August 21, 2025.^[199]

“	The Russian people are more MAGA than MAGA. They are all about Donald Trump succeeding, especially when it comes to peace with Russia. They respect what he's trying to do with the American economy, even if they disagree with some of the policies. They like strength and they view Donald Trump as a relatively strong guy. ,,,They embrace the concept of the deep state reality more than many Americans do. They understand what the military-industrial complex is. They understand the power, the reach of the Democratic Party, what it's done to law enforcement, the whole weaponization of law enforcement. They get it. They understand it.	”
—Scott Ritter, August 21, 2025.^[200]

“	Russia is the world's main and only full-cycle supplier: uranium enrichment, fuel supplies, construction of nuclear power plants and personnel training. According to Western experts, more than 75% of the world's nuclear programs depend on Russian technology and nuclear fuel.... former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that in the future, wars will take place over the internet, involving millions of AI-controlled drones.... controlling millions of drones will require titanic data centers, which, in turn, need a sea of energy, and in a mobile version....states capable of quickly deploying mobile nuclear installations will have a fundamental advantage in the wars of next-generation AI drones. At the same time, energy will become a key resource, and nuclear technology will become a "weapon of victory"...Russia has gone into a gap that is almost impossible to overcome in the foreseeable future, that is, the nuclear war of the future has already ended, even before it has begun.	”
—Kirill Strelnikov, August 24, 2025.^[201]

“	We can't fix the system if we commit suicide by going to war with Russia, because a war with Russia would be the end of the world. And so what I've been doing is trying to promote the idea of peace between Russia and the United States to prevent a war. In order to do that, I have to change the mindset of the American people. You saw it. When you say you're a Russian, do you have flushing toilets? Do you have washing machines? You have refrigeration? You have roads? Cars that use gas? I mean, the ignorance of the American public about the reality of Russia is very real.	”
—Scott Ritter, August 25, 2025.^[202]

Modi, Putin, and Xi at the 2025 SCO Summit in the former American concession of Tianjin to commemorate the end of World War II in China.

“	The Council of Heads of SCO Member States adopted a statement on the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and the establishment of the United Nations. They believe that it is necessary to adapt the UN to modern political and economic realities by implementing a well-thought-out reform to ensure that developing countries are represented in the UN's governing bodies. The member states have confirmed their commitment to the equal and full observance of the goals and principles of the UN Charter and the SCO Charter, as well as other universally recognized principles and norms of international law in relations between the SCO member states....Member States adhere to a line that excludes bloc-based and confrontational approaches to solving international and regional development issues. They emphasize that cooperation within the SCO can serve as a basis for building an architecture of equal and indivisible security in Eurasia...they reaffirmed the relevance of initiatives to promote cooperation in building a new type of international relations based on mutual respect, justice, equality and mutually beneficial cooperation, as well as to form a common vision of the idea of creating a community of common destiny for humanity and to develop a dialogue based on the idea of "One Earth. One Family. One Future." The Member States called on the international community to join the SCO Initiative on Global Unity for a Just World, Harmony and Development.	”
—Statement by the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and the establishment of the United Nations], September 1, 2025.^[203]

“	The SCO makes a tangible contribution to strengthening the atmosphere of cooperation and mutual trust on the entire Eurasian continent, thereby helping to lay the political and socio-economic preconditions for the formation of a new system of stability, security and peaceful development in Eurasia – a system that would replace the obsolete Eurocentric and Euro-Atlantic models and would take into account the interests of the widest possible range of countries, would be truly balanced, and therefore would not allow attempts by some states to ensure their security at the expense of the security of others.	”
—Vladimir Putin, September 1, 2025.^[204]

“	This year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War and the founding of the United Nations. It is a milestone prompting us to remember the past and create a better future together. Eighty years ago, the international community learned profound lessons from the scourge of two world wars and founded the United Nations, thus writing a new page in global governance. Eighty years later, while the historical trends of peace, development, cooperation and mutual benefit remain unchanged, the Cold War mentality, hegemonism and protectionism continue to haunt the world. New threats and challenges have been only increasing. The world has found itself in a new period of turbulence and transformation. Global governance has come to a new crossroads.	”
—Xi Jinping, September 1, 2025.^[205]

“	The current international landscape is undergoing changes and turbulence. The U.N. and multilateralism are being challenged. The deficit in global governance continues to grow. The existing international institutions have shown three deficiencies. First, serious underrepresentation of the Global South. The collective rise of emerging markets and developing countries necessitates boosting the representation of the Global South and redressing historical injustice. Second, erosion of authoritativeness. The purposes and principles of the U.N. Charter have not been effectively observed. Resolutions of the Security Council have been challenged. Unilateral sanctions, among other practices, have violated international law and disrupted the international order. Third, urgent need for greater effectiveness. The implementation of the U.N. 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is seriously lagging behind. Issues such as climate change and the digital divide are becoming more salient. Governance gaps exist in new frontiers such as artificial intelligence (AI), cyberspace and outer space.	”
—Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, September 2, 2025.^[206]

“	Everybody understands the role the United States, the Trump administration, and President Trump personally are playing in today’s global narratives.	”
—Yury Ushakov, September 2, 2025.^[207]

“	Trump's imposition of tariffs on India isn't a punishment to India for trading with Russia. That's just the language that Trump has to use for domestic consumption, for domestic politics, because we have to always remember Trump is the President of the United States, but a lot of the power in the United States resides in Congress. The power of the purse most importantly, in Congress. Trump has very a slim majority, and so he has to be very careful how he treads. And a lot of people who are in Congress are still very deeply entrenched with the with the Cold War mindset where Russia is the enemy. 'China is the enemy. We have to confront them. We have to show them how tough we are'. And so he has to talk that language. So if he wants to introduce tariffs, which is an attack on the British system of free trade, he would get push back. But if he wraps it in, 'Oh, we're going to be punishing Russia and we're going to show the Chinese how tough we are', then you know, all the clapping seals in Congress, they go, "Yay, you know, look, look how tough we are."	”
—Alex Krainer, September 4, 2025.^[208]

"This is something knew" - Kaja Kallas.

“	This is the battle of narratives for the Global South, and all the rest of the world, really. I was in an ASEAN meeting and one thing what was interesting you know that Russia was addressing China like "You and uh and like Russia and China, We uh you know fought the Second World War. We won the Second World War. We beat the Nazis". And I was like, "Okay, that is something new". But then you can see first you can, you know, if you know history then you know it raises a lot of question marks in your head. But you know, I can tell you nowadays people don't really read and remember history that much.	”
—Kaja Kallas, September 4, 2025.^[209]

“	Looks like we've lost India and Russia to the deepest, darkest, China. May they have a long and prosperous future together!	”
—Donald Trump, September 5, 2025.^[210]

“	But even amid many other moronic ideas, the notion that any attempted coercion that leads one-third of humanity—India, a pharma and manufacturing giant, Russia, the world’s largest nuclear power, and China, another manufacturing giant and America's real Asian peer rival—into an alignment of necessity against what increasingly looks like a mindless Jacobin power will not affect the U.S. is genuinely strange to think. When the original American realists tried to divide Eurasia for over 80 years, the logic was simply Mackinderian: You cannot simply have a third of humanity actively hate you because they might entice another third towards them by simply being less arrogant than you. When that happens, more relevantly than a military threat, your trade power will go kaput. The sanction power and reserve currency that we are so confident about will be used against us.	”
—Sumantra Maitra, September 9, 2025.^[211]

“	Judging by the news, statements and events of recent days, there is a feeling that the good old days of the peak of the Cold War are returning, and on hellish steroids...Western propagandists literally glow with happiness because the green light has been given for any heresy...The main thing is that two topics should be heard: (a) Russia is on the verge of collapse; (b) Russia is about to take over the whole world, and it must be stopped...It is gratifying that on the other side the thought is becoming louder that the West has made a colossal, perhaps fatal, mistake towards Russia...We will find out very soon how much the current United States leadership shares this idea: not by words, but by specific deeds.	”
—Kirill Strelnikov, September 10, 2025.^[212]

“	Whether we like it or not, the history of international politics is a near-continuous chain of violence between states. Rarely has this violence been aimed at total conquest or permanent subjugation. More often it reflects a state's instinct for survival – the attempt to build a system where security does not depend solely on self-defense, but on recognition by others. That logic is especially clear when outside protection begins to fade. For decades, the United States has provided such protection, shaping a world in which some states survived not because of their own balance with neighbors, but because Washington made their survival a strategic interest. Today, however, America's reach is shrinking. Even its most privileged allies must consider unfamiliar ways of surviving in hostile regions. The results may be unpredictable, but the trend is inevitable – and it offers hope that regional balances will replace the distortions of the late 20th century.	”
—Timofey Bordachev, September 17, 2025.^[213]

“	In these negotiations in Istanbul both sides, as is always the case in such situations, negotiated from a position where they saw the talks as the only sensible way out. Russia did so because the attempt to bring about a regime change had failed, and Ukraine because it assumed that Russia would indeed wage a massive war which Ukraine would not survive. This also led to a willingness to compromise on both sides. Ultimately, this round of negotiations ended on April 15th with an agreement on Ukraine's permanent neutrality and security guarantees.	”
—Gen. Harald Kujat, former head of the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) and former Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, September 19, 2025.^[214]

“	We Europeans have lost so much influence in the arithmetic of geopolitical power because of the war in Ukraine and will continue to lose more simply due to the economic disadvantages that this war has brought us that we must try to reestablish a close alliance with the United States, and then through a peaceful end to this war, build a new order of peace and security in Europe.	”
—Gen. Harald Kujat, former head of the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) and former Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, September 19, 2025.^[215]

“	If you say in Ukraine that the Russian speakers are not subhumans, that's a crime. You're having a resurgence of Nazism sweeping across Europe, centered in Germany as it was before. And the result is that all of Europe is joined with Germany to say, "Let's refight World War II", in the belief that they can win this time. And I think part of this illusion is a whole generation of Europeans has grown up not only on American movies, but on a false idea of who fought World War II. The two main fighters of World War II was Russia, that lost 22 million people, and China that lost 18 million people.	”
—Michael Hudson, September 20, 2025.^[216]

“	Keep in mind that we just went through years and years of the Russiagate hoax which was all fake. Then we had the Biden laptop which was also fake. We were told this was a Russian disinformation campaign. It was not. We had this story of Russians putting bounties on the heads of American soldiers in Afghanistan, was fake....So one story after another, it's all fake. And it's every time these fake stories come out, the eagerness in the media and among the politicians that finally, "Look we have a smoking gun, how evil the Russians are. Now we have to do something. We have to step up the military pressure. Sanctions.".... Every news story is just another Russian aggression happening in a vacuum. And for God's sake, we don't need any evidence at all. And if you ask for evidence, that suggests you might be taking the side of the Russians who are saying that it's not true and you're doubting our own people. So you're almost a traitor. I mean the situation has become so absurd and the warmongers have really taken over the wheel.... So I think this final stage of the war will be extremely dangerous. I wish there was some professional, mature leadership to take us through this dangerous time, but again I don't see any trace of it. It is very concerning, when you look at what are supposed to be the leaders, and they're talking about shooting down Russian jets or sending European troops into Ukraine, it is a reminder that they do not plan on there ever being any kind of lasting peace. And Russia is listening and hearing those warnings loud and clear.	”
—Glenn Diesen, September 22, 2025.^[217]

“	Look at the attitude of the broader electorate towards these globalists running their country. People that have opened the borders. people that want to change the laws, that are doing everything in their power to castigate, oppress their native population in favor of foreigners, and to effectively destroy national culture, national identity. That's the larger globalist agenda. If you listen to Hariri who's the high priest in the church of globalism, it's very obvious. We used to call this Bolshevism. This is what Trotsky and Kamenev and Radek and the rest of them all dreamt of - erasing all of these identities. Declaring everything as "artificial constructs", which it's not. There's nothing artificial about language, race, ethnicity, religion, or culture. Those are real things. Those things define us as human beings. So, you're having the European population, whether it's in Ireland or England or anywhere else, wake up and say, "Wait a minute. We didn't sign up for this. This is not what we want." Russia is the last bastion of a national state that refuses to assimilate into the amorphous mass of nothingness that the globalists want to create.	”
—Douglas Macgregor, September 25, 2025.^[218]

“	The biggest and most important task for our opinion leaders today is to make other people, the entire Western transatlantic community, realize: this is war. We did not want this, sometimes it is strange, a new type of war, but it is still war.	”
—Donald Tusk, September 29, 2025.^[219]

“

The idea of using Western-made missiles to strike deep into Russian territory has moved from the fringe to the discussion table. The Biden team flirted with this option; Trump, less cautious and more theatrical, might yet cross that line. Such escalation would drag the conflict beyond Ukraine's borders and invite responses that neither Washington nor Brussels could control.

To call this situation an "impasse" is to misunderstand it. The war is not frozen but evolving – technologically, politically, and strategically – in ways that favor Moscow.

Ukraine's Western backers are trapped by their own contradictions: a war they cannot win but dare not end, a financial burden they cannot sustain but fear to drop.

The United States, for all its noise about disengagement, remains enmeshed in the conflict it pretends to mediate. Europe, meanwhile, is discovering that moral grandstanding is no substitute for industrial power. What appears to be a stalemate, then, is really the slow unwinding of a Western strategy that mistook endurance for success.

The front may look still, but history – as ever – is moving beneath it.

”

—Vasily Kashin, October 7, 2025.^[220]

“

I was studying other times in history when gold prices more than doubled in the reserve currency of the time as they did in the past year. It's rare and almost always a sign of profound loss of confidence in the existing monetary and political order going all the way back to the Roman Empire, the so-called crisis of the 3rd century.

And it often marked the transition from one era of power to the next. The fall of Rome, Spain's decline from world power, the French Revolution and terror, the end of Bretton Woods, etc.

Interestingly, it's often actually as much a cause as a sign of these episodes, as this is effectively a transfer of real wealth from the poor to the rich elites who protect themselves with gold. This being what ignites the political upheaval.

The weird aspect of the current episode is the relative silence around it. We're witnessing what may be one of the great pivotal moments in financial history. Yet, it's being barely discussed.

”

—Arnaud Bertrand, October 7, 2025.^[221]

“	For over seven decades, Washington has stood at the pinnacle of global power, an empire built not on conquest alone, but on the illusion of permanence. From the ashes of World War II to the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States fashioned a world order in its own image, liberal, capitalist, and seemingly unchallenged. But power, as history reminds us, is never static. It ebbs and flows with the rise of new actors, the exhaustion of empires, and the unforgiving logic of international politics. Today, the signs of decline are no longer whispers in academic halls. They are written across the world map. America's rivals grow bolder. Its alliances strain under competing interests and its own political core fractures from within. What we are witnessing is not a sudden collapse but the slow unraveling of hegemony, a process that will redefine global order in the decades to come.	”
—John Mearsheimer, October 10, 2025.^[222]

“	Russia believes that Germany's remilitarization, Finland's membership in NATO, and the push for neutral Austria to follow, all of which are backed by the US, prove that the US is gradually revising the results of WWII. Likewise, so too does it believe that Japan's US-backed remilitarization is proof of the same, the view of which China shares as well. It was therefore predictable that the US would one day start to more assertively challenge China's reliance on WWII-era agreements in support of its claim to Taiwan. The world order always changes as history attests, but in these instances, associated processes are being weaponized by the US for containment purposes vis-à-vis what can nowadays be described as the Sino-Russo Entente in order to justify more aggressive policies against them on false legal bases. Permanent UNSC members Russia and China obviously wouldn't agree to the abovementioned revisions, hence why the US is backing them unilaterally, which further accelerates the collapse of the post-WWII order.	”
—Andrew Korybko , October, 11, 2025.^[223]

“	I agree with Elon Musk and Senator Lee that it's time for us to get out of NATO immediately.	”
—Alex Jones, October 13, 2025.^[224]

Donbas Cauldron

“	Russia's gradual advance in the Donbass region appears to be forming an operational encirclement of Ukraine's last major defensive line—its “fortress belt”—a development that could decide not only the fate of the war but also the shape of the emerging global order....Because Russia is fighting what is essentially a war of attrition seeking to demilitarize Ukraine rather than focusing on the rapid seizure of territory, it seeks to force Ukraine to commit huge amounts of reserves to Pokrovsk and elsewhere along the fortress belt to meet well-established Russian military positions and long-range fires....Ukraine is forced to continuously send troops and material to the current line of contact where Russia is destroying it. The Western media now accepts that Russia is both fighting and decisively winning this war of attrition and that there is little the US and its European client states can do to stop it – at least in terms of continued military support for Ukrainian forces.	”
—Brian Berletic, October 21, 2025.^[225]

“	This is Trump's war. So, he loses leverage as well when Donetsk is fully captured. Absolutely. And this is, of course, where the whole business of telling Trump that everything is fine comes in. ‘The Ukrainians are actually winning. The Russians are suffering a massive losses.’ People have tried to get Trump to believe that he doesn’t have to surrender Donbass. Now what he’s going to find is that that whole line of diplomacy has gone, because the Russians are going to take it anyway. Apparently, somebody--Vance, Witkoff, who knows?--according to the British media, somebody tried to explain this to Trump some time ago, that there is really no point in backing Zelensky over withdrawal from Donbass, because the Ukrainians are going to lose it anyway. But Trump obviously didn’t take that seriously and didn’t listen. And at some point over the next few months, he’s going to find that his major leverage over the Russians has gone. He’s going to take a big L in a lot of areas when it comes to foreign policy. A lot of areas. It’s going to be a very rough next year for Trump when it comes to foreign policy. I my own view, actually, and I’m going to say this. I think next year is going to be difficult for Trump altogether. I think that there are growing issues in the economy as well. There’s likely to be a judgment against him at the Supreme Court over tariffs. This is the rumor. This is apparently where the direction of travel is going. He’s antagonized China. He’s infuriated Russia, embarrassed Putin. I think a lot of things are going to come together next year. And the battles in Donbass are going to be just one of them.	”
—Alexander Mercouris, October 26, 2025.^[226]

“	I think we're going to see an escalation. Everything is connected. This is part of the third world war. It's an asymmetric war, part of it is financial, part of it is bullying, part of it is military. But this war is expanding.	”
—Alastair Crooke, October 27, 2025.^[227]

“	People may say that guys like you and I are unpatriotic. We're not loyal to the United States. We're not America First. I would say we want America to be Number One. We want America to behave as morally correct as possible. And we're critical of the United States because it's failing on both counts.	”
—John Mearsheimer, October 30, 2015.^[228]

“	This is a 1939 moment. Or hopefully a 1981 moment. A moment of mounting urgency. Enemies gather, threats grow. You feel it, I feel it. If we are going to prevent and avoid war, which is what we all want, we must prepare now.	”
—Pete Hegseth, November 8, 2025.^[229]

“	Empires don't collapse from external enemies. Not through conquest. Not through revolution. They crumble from within, as trust in their money quietly decays — the slow death of their currency. Is the American Empire next?...As historian Niall Ferguson wrote in The Ascent of Money (2008): 'Money is trust inscribed. When that trust dies, money dies — and when money dies, empires die with it'.	”
—Felix Abt, November 9, 2025.^[230]

“	A civilisational struggle is underway in the Western world. Those who uphold Christian traditional values must prevail over radical progressive forces that threaten our societies, families, and public safety. The future of Western civilisation is at stake.	”
—Victor Orban, November 11, 2025.^[231]

“	The waterfall of lies being told in Ukraine had completely blinded almost every level of the regime's hierarchy and military structure. The only ones who knew the full reality of the Ukrainian army's defeat on the front lines were those Ukrainians who had been dragged there off the street and made to fight and die there. Those officers commanding them, always from a safe distance, fearing for their reputations, their position, or jail time, fed the most optimistic data they could back to their superiors. Their superiors would then feed this false data to those further up the chain of command and ultimately it would go to the Ukrainian president and his PR people, press agents and so forth and so to western "journalists" based in Kiev for distribution to western "news" outlets.	”
—Aearnur, November 15, 2025.^[232]

“	We can no longer rely on the US to defend us, on China to supply us with raw materials....We do not yet know what it will look like in a few years, but we know quite clearly that the order we have known in the West over the last 80 years, and in the East over the last 35 years, is now coming to an end.	”
—Friedrich Merz, November 17, 2025.^[233]

“	We're heading towards a catastrophe of strategic scale that could lead to the loss of statehood.	”
—Serhiy Sternenko, November 19, 2025.^[234]

“	The Euro-cabal is desperate to force Russia into an unfavorable ceasefire to immediately inject NATO troops and "freeze" the conflict for however long it takes to re-arm and re-generate the AFU for round two of this existential clash of civilizations.	”
—Simplicius, November 25, 2025^[235]

“

They [the Americans] clearly understand that they need to get out of this situation, because this vortex will suck them in deeper and can drag them in to the extent that they will risk the existence of the United States if things progress to World War III. That is why they are dealing with this issue so proactively. Its not because they love Russia so much, or because they love Ukrainians - they don't care about them at all. They are afraid for themselves and are worried about their own fate.

Now, Americans are in quite a difficult situation, because they need to convey that there is nowhere to go, not only for Zelensky, but to all the European brethren. They also have nowhere to go, because Europeans fear it like fire - that Russia will win and reach the western border of Ukraine. What will they do then, poor things?

They will have to fall to their knees, apologize to us. They'll have to ask that we sell them energy resources once again. They'll have to reduce all these brigade and battalion groups that they dragged to their eastern flank. But the most important thing, most of the bureaucracy will have to leave their posts, the European ones, the EU, and the national ones too, who plunged their peoples into this bedlam.

”

— Andrey Kartapolov, November 25, 2025.^[236]

“	We got into a war with the Russians in February of 2022 and we had a chance to shut it down, right? And it would have been actually quite easy to shut it down in April 2022 and that's why significant progress was being made at the time. But we in the West, and here we're talking mainly about the United States and Britain, told the Ukrainians to walk because we thought we could defeat the Russians. And then the war escalated. The war escalated in two very fundamental ways. It escalated in terms of the size and quality of the fighting forces on both sides. You started off with relatively small militaries, but those militaries grew in size and they became quite formidable militaries over time to include the Ukrainians. Certainly the Russians. The Russian military today is a much more formidable fighting force in terms of size and quality than it was in 2022. Right? So you had that kind of escalation, escalation in the size and quality of the military forces on both sides. But you also had escalation in the goals of the two sides, right? And the Russians are not content now with cutting a deal that looks like the deal that was on the table in Istanbul in April 2022, right? The Russians understand they want at least those four Oblasts plus Crimea. And the more they think about it, they want additional Oblasts. and they want to go to great lengths to make sure that they wreck Ukraine, that they turn it into a dysfunctional rump state. Again, this war has gone much further than it had gone in April 2022. You could have cut a deal then. The idea that you can cut a deal easily now, it's just not in the cards.	”
—John Mearsheimer, November 27, 2025.^[237]

“

The U.S. functioned as an organizational principle—setting hierarchies and goals—within the international rules-based system under which other smaller systems, namely other states, functioned. This was not without resistance or tension, but the U.S. had the power to avoid major disruptions in the system by pushing for order, that is, compliance with the organizational principle, and therefore resisting entropy.

This organizational principle could be broadly summarized as “neoliberal capitalism”: a particular form of liberal democracy and market capitalism. Changes created by the inertia of the system, the development of China, increasing its weight within the system, and the distancing of Russia from U.S. influence, increasing the complexity of a subsystem, among others, created tensions that U.S. neoliberal capitalism has tried to resist and is failing to adapt to, as challengers contest the status quo.

The U.S. has tried to resist entropy by trying to reverse change. That is how we can understand policies toward China and Russia: trying to curb Chinese development or to bend Russia to its will. These are two examples, but the U.S. relationship to Europe and Latin America can be explained by the same logic: trying to resist entropy by increasing centralized control.

”

—Curro Jimenez, November 27, 2025.^[238]

“	The days of the United States propping up the entire world order like Atlas are over.	”
—National Security Strategy of the United States of America, November 30, 2025.^[239]

“

The Russians would much prefer to have kind of an umbrella arrangement which would disguise, putting lipstick on this pig of defeat for the West, for Ukraine, and for the US and have an agreement that recognizes their core interests, that is their prevailing view. Okay, if they can get something that recognizes their territorial gains, something like that earlier agreement in Istanbul in April of 2022.

Mind you, if they get something like that, that'll be far better than having to go further even, farther even into western Ukraine or setting up on the Dnieper River. They want something that they can say, "Okay, now we have an internationally claimed agreement". And ideally they would like to have the Security Council put its endorsement on that. That's going to take a lot of time.

But Putin's in no rush. These are his equities. He's winning. Each time, each week that goes by, he's winning more. And most important, Trump has acknowledged that.

”

—Ray McGovern, December 1, 2025.^[240]

“	What happens next will define the next fifty years of global order. Either Europe accepts its new role as a funding mechanism for American-designed security arrangements. Or the Atlantic fractures. There is no third option. The post-1945 world order is being rewritten. Not in Brussels. In Moscow.	”
—Shanaka Anslem Perera, December 2, 2025.^[241]

“	Pundits and politicians often had no real idea about what “war” with Russia might actually mean, I did decide to gird up my loins and glance through some recent media articles on the subject. And indeed, in all parts of the political spectrum, and irrespective of sympathies, it did seem that many writers had little idea what they were talking about, and little awareness that they had little idea what they were talking about, either. This has been the case since the beginning of the crisis, and it reflects the fact that understanding what’s going on in Ukraine, why it happened and how it might turn out, is objectively difficult, and requires acquired knowledge, reflection and ideally personal experience: a combination, together with time to develop ideas, which you don’t often find these days. Then it occurred to me that Ukraine was not the only case where the intelligentsia of today (if you can call it that) seemed just to have given up, and retreated into slogans and name-calling. In an age when more people are notionally better educated than ever before, and where apparently limitless information is available on the Internet, we seem to be less intellectually able to engage with, let alone grasp big issues than was ever the case before.	”
—Aurelien, December 3, 2025.^[242]

“	We are facing the risk of the disintegration of the international order that brought peace to the world for decades.	”
—Emmanuel Macron, December 4, 2025.^[243]

“	The liberal world order is collapsing under the weight of its own arrogance, and at the very moment Europe drowns in a self-inflicted civilizational crisis, the White House has released a national security strategy powerful enough to redefine the future of the West...This strategy is nothing less than a funeral bell for the post-Cold War fantasy world created by globalists, technocrats, and the architects of endless intervention...Trump accepts what the previous political class refused to face: We now live in a multipolar, post-liberal age...Woke ideology has failed...Nations are back...Identity matters...Borders matter...Sovereignty matters...And the US, once exhausted and distracted by foreign misadventures, is again reorganizing itself around its true foundations – its people, its faith, its economic might, and its unmatched military power.	”
—Ladislav Zemánek, December 6, 2025.^[244]

“	The word "Ukraine" means "at the border". And in all the Slavic languages, it doesn't imply which side of the border, at the border. Its borders have been defined differently. Those borders, aside from Crimea that Ukraine had upon its independence, were actually created by Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin in an agreement they made. So you've got the West in effect supporting a fight against Russia to preserve the heritage of Hitler and Stalin. I would never have dreamed that that could happen.	”
—Jack Matlock, December 10, 2025.^[245]

“	Denmark's military intelligence service has for the first time classified the U.S. as a security risk, a striking shift in how one of Washington's closest European allies assesses the transatlantic relationship.	”
—Antoaneta Roussi, December 11, 2025.^[246]

“	The humiliation Washington is inflicting on Western Europe today will shape an entire generation of politicians who will eventually have to rediscover how to deal with Russia. The lessons they are absorbing now may prove as important as those learned by previous Western European leaders who built a dialogue with the USSR after 1945.	”
—RT, December 12, 2025.^[247]

“	Trump did not come about overnight and this American policy will not simply disappear overnight. It may be that things will become even more difficult with his successor. Let's prepare ourselves for the fact that we are also seeing a fundamental change in transatlantic relations. The decades of Pax Americana are largely over for us in Europe and also for us in Germany. It no longer exists as we knew it and nostalgia is of no help here.	”
—Friedrich Merz, December 15, 2025.^[248]

“	The decisions NATO makes in the months ahead won't just influence the course of this war. They will define the shape of European security for decades. And to grasp what's really at risk, we must move past the battlefield and begin analyzing the ripple effects already in motion. The consequences of the Odessa corridors opening extend far beyond military geography. They are spreading outward, transforming economies, shifting alliances, and impacting the lives of millions.	”
—Yanis Varoufakis, December 15, 2025.^[249]

“	The transatlantic relationship has descended into a violent and abusive partnership. The USA bullies, bashes, binds, and abuses Europe. And what's more, it has the gall to claim that America, the home of McDonald's and the land of mass shootings, is the pinnacle of Western civilizational achievement.	”
—Jeff Rich, December 20, 2025.^[250]

“	The consequences of this long pattern of disdain for Russian security concerns are now visible with brutal clarity. The war in Ukraine, the collapse of nuclear arms control, Europe's energy and industrial shocks, Europe's new arms race, the EU's political fragmentation, and Europe's loss of strategic autonomy are not aberrations. They are the cumulative costs of two centuries of Europe's refusal to take Russia's security concerns seriously.	”
—Jeffrey Sachs, December 23, 2025.^[251]

“	People just don't know Russia. They don't understand the Russian economy. They don't understand the Russian reality. They cherrypick data. I mean, I love the one, you know, a certain percentage of Russians don't have, you know, functioning um, you know, uh, um, um.... plumbing. Yeah. Because they live in the freaking far north. You know what happens to plumbing in the far north? outdoor plumbing, it freezes, pipes blow up. So that's why they don't have the things that you... they've adjusted to that. It's Russian reality, guys. You know, but you go to Moscow, everybody's got a flushing toilet.	”
—Scott Ritter, December 24, 2025.^[252]

“	On June 9th, 2024, something happened that will reshape global finance for the next 50 years. You probably didn't hear about it. There were no emergency press conferences, no dramatic headlines, no panic in the streets, just a quiet, bureaucratic announcement from Riyadh that went largely unnoticed by mainstream media. Saudi Arabia let its 50-year petrodollar agreement with the United States expire. No renewal, no extension, no renegotiation, just silence as the June 9th deadline passed and the most important financial arrangement of the post-war era simply ceased to exist.	”
—Yanis Varoufakis, December 26, 2025.^[253]

“	So here is the historic moment before us: The Donald now needs to tell Rubio in no uncertain terms to take a hike and then return to the essence of the 28-point plan and agree with Putin to a partition of Ukraine. So doing, he would not only end the utter stupidity of NATO's proxy war on Russia, but in the process accomplish something more of literally epic proportions: Namely, the defenestration of the neocons, official Washington, NATO, the rules based international order and all the other globalist humbug that has saddled America with $1.5 trillion per year Warfare State and Global Empire that it cannot afford and doesn’t need.	”
—David Stockman, December 27, 2025.^[254]

“	Trump had come to blame Ukraine, not the Kremlin, for the 2016 election interference that spawned the Russia investigation. And it was his effort to have Ukraine investigate the Bidens that led to his first impeachment. In meetings, according to five aides, Mr. Trump would sometimes say of Mr. Zelensky, “He’s a m***f***”.	”
—Adam Entous, NYT, December, 30, 2025.^[255]

2026

“	2025 was a year when it became clear to everyone that an era in international politics had come to an end, with President Trump's inauguration dealing the final blow to that old era...As a result, in 2026 we are already living in a new era...There will surely be enough written to fill a library on how to define and verbally describe the old era, and how to describe the new era ahead of us...For now we are still using the simple approach of calling the era that ended in 2025 "the liberal world order"...This had its own rules – let's say its old rules, which are no longer valid.	”
—Victor Orban, January 5, 2026.^[256]

“	The US has an established power, but one that is gradually turning away from some of its allies and freeing itself from international rules that it was still promoting not so long ago – whether in the field of trade or certain elements of security.	”
—Emmanuel Macron, January 8, 2026.^[257]

“

But there is also the fact that our most important partner, the United States, has broken with the values that it helped to establish and, above all, has played a decisive role in shaping over decades.

In my opinion, we have now moved beyond the stage where we can lament the lack of respect for international law or the erosion of the international order; we are far beyond that, I believe.

Both disrespect and erosion are well advanced. I believe that, and I want to emphasise it a little: Today it is a matter of preventing the world from turning into a den of robbers, in which the most unscrupulous take what they want, in which regions, entire countries are treated as the property of a few great powers, in which attempts are made to push even the medium-sized states – and that includes us – to the margins of history, and small and weaker states are left without any protection at all.

”

—Frank-Walter Steinmeier, January 9, 2926.^[258]

“	We're going to do something on Greenland whether they like it or not...I would like to make a deal, you know, the easy way...But if we don’t do it the easy way, we’re going to do it the hard way.	”
—Donald Trump, January 8, 2026.^[259]

“	America is the world's most powerful nation, yet many of the richest and most capable countries do not balance against it — they ally with it...They defer to it on core security questions...They host its forces...They integrate their militaries with its...That is not normal in the long sweep of modern history...It is, in fact, close to unique.	”
—Fareed Zakaria, January 9, 2026.^[260]

“	War is back in vogue and a zeal for war is spreading.	”
—Pope Leo XIV, January 9, 2026.^[261]

“	Mine is the first visit of a Canadian prime minister to China in nearly a decade. The world has changed much since that last visit. I believe the progress that we have made and the partnership sets us up well for the new world order.	”
—Mark Carney, January 16, 2026.^[262]

“	Maybe we should have put NATO to the test: Invoked Article 5, and forced NATO to come here and protect our Southern Border from further Invasions of Illegal Immigrants, thus freeing up large numbers of Border Patrol Agents for other tasks.	”
—Donald Trump, January 22, 2026.^[263]

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↑ Interview with Gerhard Schröder: How the peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia failed, Tomasz Kurianowicz and Moritz Eichhorn, Berliner Zeitung, 22.10.2023.
↑ KanekoaTheGreat, Oct 19, 2023. Original source: Prof. Mearsheimer interview with Judge Napolitano, October 12, 2023. YouTube.
↑ The Failed Ukrainian Peace Deal, By Abdul Rahman, Consortium News, June 22, 2023.
↑ Western Allies Led By UK's Johnson Sabotaged Tentative Ukraine-Russia Peace Deal... In April, Tyler Durden, AUG 31, 2022.
↑ WHEN, HOW AND WHY DID THE WAR IN UKRAINE TRULY BEGIN?, Aearnur, Oct 17, 2024. aearnur.substack.com/
↑ Poland announced the deployment of US nuclear weapons in the country, Yuette Agude, Apr 5, 2022. YouTube. "Poland announced preparations for the deployment of US nuclear weapons on its territory. American nuclear weapons will be deployed on the territory of Poland. According to the Deputy Prime Minister of Poland, agreements have now been fully reached allowing Washington to relocate its nuclear arsenals to the country in any required quantity. "Poland is open to the deployment of US nuclear weapons," says Jarosław Kaczynski, leader of Poland's ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party. In an interview with the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag, the influential politician said that this "clearly strengthens the containment of Moscow." As far as we know, the Americans have no plans to deploy nuclear weapons in Poland, but according to Kaczynski, this could quickly change under the influence of Russia's special operation (ed.) in Ukraine. According to him, it would be a logical step to have nuclear weapons on the eastern border of the NATO zone.", according to the Teller Report. The deployment of nuclear weapons on the territory of Poland could lead to an extremely serious escalation between NATO and Russia, since if even tactical nuclear weapons appeared in Poland, a very serious threat would appear both for the Kaliningrad region and for neighboring Belarus, which is not only a member of the Union State, but and a member of the CSTO. The Russian side has not yet responded to Poland's calls to deploy US nuclear weapons in the country."
↑ The Leaders of France, Germany, and Italy Favor Negotiations to End Ukraine War, by Dave DeCamp, May 16, 2022. antiwar.com
↑ Andromeda11711 tweet, Jun 18, 2023:💥 "I know for a fact that the war could have been stopped back in March." Ukrainian journalist Diana Panchenko on the Istanbul peace treaty: "A man from Zelensky's inner circle told me: 'We just got rid of the Russians in March. He bragged about it... Friends, I know them all personally. They are ruled by sociopaths. They don't understand the consequences. Yesterday, Putin gave the Kiev regime a real knockout blow. Imagine Zelensky beating his chest and assuring the Ukrainians that there are no agreements with Russia. That's exactly why the Bucha fake was staged: the Kiev regime needed to show that the Russians hadn't left on their own, but that the Kiev region had supposedly been liberated by the Ukrainian military. The provocation in Bucha was necessary to falsify the reason for the rejection of the agreements by making a fuss in the Western media. Britain, China, the USA, Turkey, France and Belarus were listed as security guarantors for Ukraine in the Istanbul Treaty, which Ukraine did not want to fulfil. Of course, Zelensky was forbidden by Washington and London to comply, but in this situation it does not matter, because it was Ukraine that violated the treaty. Yesterday's statement by Vladimir Putin completely destroys the myth of Ukraine's independence in decision-making and clearly shows the people of Ukraine what Zelensky got them into: he had an opportunity to avoid a disaster. There would have been no deaths or destruction. A viable Ukrainian economy would have been preserved. No one would have interfered with Ukraine's "independence"! But it was the Kiev regime that dragged Ukraine into a major war, and it can no longer stop what is happening. https://t.me/ukraine_watch/4397
↑ Putin and the African Leaders - The Treaty of Istanbul, Jun 18, 2023. YouTube.
↑ IN UKRAINE THE WESTERN POWERS HAVE CREATED A POISONOUS WEB OF LIES, AEARNUR, NOV 11, 2023. aearnur.substack.com
↑ The War in Ukraine Is Getting Complicated, and America Isn’t Ready, By The Editorial Board, New York Times, May 19, 2022.
↑ WESTERN LEADERS CONTINUE TO TURN THE HANDLE OF THE UKRAINIAN MEATGRINDER, AEARNUR, SEP 16, 2023. aearnur.substack.com
↑ Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post Columnist Calls for the End of Impartiality and Balance in Journalism, September 24, 2022. jonathanturley.org
↑ Status of US Dollar as Global Reserve Currency and USD Exchange Rates: Long, Slow, Uneven Decline Continues, January 2, 2024, By Wolf Richter, editor at Wolf Street. Originally published at Wolf Street. www.nakedcapitalism.com
↑ In for a Pound, WILLIAM SCHRYVER, DEC 23, 2023. Originally published December 23, 2022.
↑ A conversation with Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki, Atlantic Council, April 13, 2023. atlanticcouncil.org
↑ The Ontological Incoherence of American Imperial Exceptionalism, William Schryver, Feb 23, 2023. imetatronink.substack.com
↑ Robert Freeman, Ukraine: The Tunnel at the End of the Light, Consortium News, February 28, 2023. consortiumnews.com
↑ Ukraine Sitrep - Reality Defeats The War Narrative, Moon of Alabama, July 18, 2023. moonofalabama.org
↑ John Mearsheimer: Ukraine war is a long-term danger, The Grayzone, Jul 30, 2023. YouTube
↑ Ukraine’s slow counteroffensive is a wake-up call for the West, By Maksym Skrypchenko, Atlantic Council, August 7, 2023. atlanticcouncil.org
↑ Viktor Orbán- "Everybody Knows Ukraine Cannot Win", Good Lawgic, Streamed live on Aug 30, 2023. YouTube
↑ Entangled in a Web of Deceit, interview with Larry C. Johnson, Dialogue Works, Sep 10, 2023. YouTube
↑ The War in Ukraine Has Become a Turning Point in the History of Civilization – Yaroslav Hrytsak, Ukrainian Catholic University, 11 SEPTEMBER, 2023. https://ucu.edu.ua
↑ Secretary Blinken's speech at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, U.S. Department of State, Sep 13, 2023. YouTube.
↑ Rewriting the rules of globalization, By GAVIN BADE, Politico, 09/22/2023
↑ Jews, Poles, & Russians Have United To Condemn Canada For Glorifying A Literal Nazi, ANDREW KORYBKO, SEP 25, 2023.
↑ From Applauding Nazis To Backing An Actual Genocide In Under A Month, CAITLIN JOHNSTONE, OCT 19, 2023.
↑ JPMorgan Chase & Co. New Release, October 13, 2023
↑ Rush by west to back Israel erodes developing countries’ support for Ukraine, Henry Foy, Financial Times, OCTOBER 17 2023. ft.com
↑ Remarks by President Biden at a Campaign Reception, OCTOBER 20, 2023. www.whitehouse.gov
↑ Most dangerous and important decade since WWII lies ahead, Putin says, 27 OCT 2022. TASS. tass.com
↑ Itapirkanmaa2, October 29, 2023, YouTube
↑ Leading Russian foreign policy expert expresses 3rd World War is underway, 11/1/2023. menafn.com
↑ BRICS Overtaking G7 In Economic Might, 13/11/2023.
↑ How Obama And Biden’s America-Last Ethos Demoted The U.S. From World Leader To Loser, SHAWN FLEETWOOD, The Federalist, NOVEMBER 14, 2023. thefederalist.com
↑ House Homeland Chair Green to warn US is at 'one of the most dangerous times' in history during threat hearing, By Brooke Singman, Adam Shaw, Fox News, November 15, 2023. foxnews.com
↑ WaPo: Opinion Joe Biden: The U.S. won’t back down from the challenge of Putin and Hamas, By Joe Biden, November 18, 2023.
↑ Empty Quiver, WILLIAM SCHRYVER, DEC 21, 2023.
↑ European leaders brace for ‘some kind of a new cold war’ with Russia, By PAUL MCLEARY, Politico, 12/21/2023.
↑ Sergei Ryabkov: Diplomatic relations with the United States are not a totem to be worshipped, 22 December 2023. www.interfax.ru
↑ Oleksiy Arestovych: Zelenskyy’s challenger, Unherd, January 15, 2024. unherd.com
↑ This Is Normal..., Andrei Martynov, Reminiscence of the Future, January 16, 2024. smoothiex12.blogspot.com
↑ 'Incredibly stark': Biden aides give lawmakers a grim assessment of Ukraine without more aid, By Monica Alba and Julie Tsirkin, NBC News, Jan. 20, 2024. nbcnews.com
↑ Why We're Interviewing Vladimir Putin, Tucker Carlson, Feb 6, 2024. YouTube.
↑ Ukraine’s Nazi foreign minister says ‘era of peace’ in Europe is over, Burç Eruygur, Giovanni Legorano, posted by INTEL-DROP, February 18, 2024. www.theinteldrop.org
↑ Why America Can’t Have It All, By Stephen Wertheim, February 14, 2024. foreignaffairs.com.
↑ UKRAINE: THE LEADERS OF THE COLLECTIVE WEST WILL TWIST & TURN IN VAIN: Humiliation for all who worked to use Ukraine as a weapon against Russia is coming closer by the day. The political/geopolitical consequences of the West-promoted Ukrainian debacle will be immense. Aearnur’s Newsletter, Feb 28, 2024.
↑ Munich dispatch: Gaza 'wind blowing against the West', MARC MARTORELL JUNYENT, Responsible Statecraft, FEB 18, 2024. responsiblestatecraft.org
↑ The Bitter Pill of Decisive Strategic Defeat, William Schryver, Feb 28, 2024. imetatronink.substack.com
↑ No More Hegemony of the West, a New World Order is Emerging, Warns Viktor Orbán, MTI-Hungary, March 6, 2024. hungarytoday.hu
↑ Tusk: Time of peace in EU is over, we live in pre-war times, Ukrinform, March 10, 2924.
↑ This Prophetic Academic Now Foresees the West’s Defeat, book review of Emmanuel Todd's La Défaite de L’Occident (The Defeat of the West), NYT, March 9, 2024.
↑ US destroyed anti-terrorism cooperation – Moscow, RT, March 24, 2024. rt.com
↑ Polish leader warns of 'prewar era,' urges European nations to invest in defense, Louis Casiano By Louis Casiano, Fox News, March 29, 2024.
↑ Media ADMITS Ukraine Is COLLAPSING!!!, Steve Turley, April 4, 2024. YouTube
↑ Jamie Dimon Warns World Faces "Risks That Eclipse Anything Since World War II", BY TYLER DURDEN, APR 09, 2024. zerohedge.com
↑ My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away. [1]
↑ BORIS JOHNSON: If Ukraine falls, it'll be a catastrophic turning point in history - and an utter humiliation for the West... Why the hell are we waiting to give this heroic nation the weapons it needs?, By BORIS JOHNSON, Daily Mail, 12 April 2024.
↑ The US Army's power to rapidly defeat enemies may be a thing of the past, Michael Peck, Business Insider, April 14, 2024. msn.com
↑ The World You Knew No Longer Exists, SAM FADDIS, APR 15, 2024. andmagazine.substack.com/
↑ Post-WWII order on 'brink of collapse': Amnesty head, James Pheby, Yahoo News, April 23, 2024. yahoo.com
↑ Macron warns Europe ‘can die’ in alarmist speech on protectionism, geopolitical threats, BY CLEA CAULCUTT, Politico, APRIL 25, 2024. politico.eu
↑ The liberal international order is slowly coming apart Its collapse could be sudden and irreversible, The Economist, May 9, 2024. www.economist.com
↑ RAY McGOVERN: Russia & China — Two Against One, Consortium News, May 17, 2024. consortiumnews.com
↑ Russia ‘done’ with Western Europe ‘for at least a generation’ – Lavrov, RT, 18 May, 2024. rt.com
↑ Ukraine Weekly Update, Dr. Rob Campbell, 24 May 2024. robcampbell.substack.com
↑ Col. Douglas Macgregor Exposes: U.S Neocon Agenda Ignites Chaos in Ukraine & Bosnia for Global Power, May 24, 2024.
↑ President of Russia Vladimir Putin’s speech at the meeting with senior staff of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Moscow, June 14, 2024. mid.ru
↑ Sergei Karaganov: Nuclear escalation may open Pandora’s box, but it will also free the world from the 500-year-long Western yoke, Ukraina.ru, June 21, 2024. karaganov.ru.
Karaganov goes on: "But when the Americans felt that they were losing their global leadership, they decided to dump all restrictions in the hope of restoring military superiority, the foundation upon which the West's dominance in other areas had rested for five centuries, and most importantly the possibility to syphon off world wealth. But it didn’t work out, and it won’t. Russia’s hypersonic, Poseidon and other systems have ruined these hopes. They abandoned the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles [the treaty between the USSR and the USA, signed by Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan on 8 December, 1987 during a Soviet-American summit in Washington ]. They unilaterally renounced the Russia-NATO Founding Act, the ABM Treaty, and so on. Instead they have got a war that they will lose either in disgrace or otherwise. It’s regrettable that we will have to sacrifice our men for that… However we will ensure our security and sovereignty, and we will also free the world from the 500-year-long Western yoke. I hope we will stop at nothing to make sure that the threat of war never comes from Europe again. Europe is the spawn of evil for the whole world. This is where both world wars started, during the life of one generation, the sin, which has long been forgotten by the Europeans, who are also apparently losing their mind on top of it all. Europe’s current ruling circles bring the feeling of disgust and disdain. Let’s hope new ones will come to take their place."
↑ The Big Picture behind Viktor The Mediator’s peace shuttle, PEPE ESCOBAR, 9 JUL 24. thealtworld.com/pepe_escobar
↑ The Russo-Ukrainian war as a war of transition, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Ukrainska Pravda, 22 July 2024. pravda.com.ua
↑ Commission on the National Defense Strategy Final Report, Rand Corp., July 29, 2024. www.rand.org
↑ Opinion The next president must restore our faith in America, By Jamie Dimon, Washington Post op-ed, August 2, 2024. washingtonpost.com
↑ This Is The End Of Bretton-Woods, CDM, August 5, 2024. rumble.com
↑ Doug Casey's Take ep.#339 Michael Yon: The Life You Had Before is Over..., August 8, 2024. odysee.com/@dougcasey:5
↑ How BRICS and the SCO Are REMAKING the World Order, Dr. Steve Turley, Aug 12, 2024. YouTube
↑ Dmitry Trenin: This European region could be the next Ukraine, August 15, 2024. www.sott.net
↑ Amazon.com, America's Final War – by Andrei Martyanov (Author)
↑ Standing for Freedom Center Staff, August 16, 2024. standingforfreedom.com
↑ John Rubino. rubino.substack.com
↑ From Soviet Dissident to Target of US Deep State | Dimitri K. Simes Interview, Counter Currents, Aug 30, 2024. YouTube
↑ Security Council of the Russian Federation: The United States is trying to squeeze Russia out of all international anti-terrorist formats, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, September 9, 2022. rg.ru
↑ Washington tasks Kiev with attacking ordinary Russians — ambassador, TASS, September 12, 2024. tass.com
↑ Andrei Martyanov: Russia Ready for All-Out War if NATO Strikes!, Dialogue Works, Sep 26, 2024. YouTube
↑ Economic Collapse & the Post-American World, Glenn Diesen, Oct 02, 2024. glenndiesen.substack.com
↑ Exclusive: Russia's Lavrov Warns of 'Dangerous Consequences' for US in Ukraine, Newsweek, Oct 07, 2024. www.newsweek.com
↑ Donald Trump Is the Only Choice to Keep Us From Sleepwalking to Armageddon | Opinion by Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, October 14, 2024. msn.com
↑ MAINSTREAM ALT-MEDIA, by Observer R, 15 October 2024. sonar21.com
↑ Opinion World War III is already under way. Not that Harris or Trump has noticed. By George F. Will, The Washington Post, October 16, 2024. www.washingtonpost.com
↑ [https://tass.com/politics/1858435 BRICS summit, not US elections, will determine course of history — Russian official, TASS, 19 Oct 2024. tass.com
↑ Putin says BRICS, not the West, will drive global economic growth, Reuters, Oct 19 2024 cnbc.com
↑ PUTIN Re-Shaping the World Right in Front of Us w/Larry Johnson, Daniel Davis / Deep Dive w Larry Johnson, October 22, 2024. YouTube.
↑ IMF Sees Growth Shift Toward BRICS and Away From G-7 in New Outlook, By Alexandre Tanzi, Bloomberg News, October 23, 2024. bloomberg.com
↑ Donald Trump, October 24, 2024.
↑ World War III Has Already Begun, JP Morgan Boss Says, By Suzanne Blake, Newsweek. Published Oct 29, 2024 Updated Oct 30, 2024. newsweek.com
↑ World now has three superpowers, Mark Milley, October 31, 2024. www.herald.co.zw
↑ ‘Trump fundamentally doesn't care about Ukraine’ – Michael McFaul on US elections, by Francis Farrell, Kyiv Independent, November 3, 2024. kyivindependent.com
↑ Election Aftermath: Notes on the 'Grand Realignment', Simplicius, Nov 06, 2024. simplicius76.substack.com
↑ Putin commented on the results of the elections in the US, Geopolitics Live, Nov 7, 2024. t.me/geopolitics_live
↑ Celente Just Warned A Radical 2025 Will See One Wildcard Played After Another, November 15, 2024. kingworldnews.com
↑ "On the unconfirmed decision to strike “deep into Russia” and the decision on Russia’s nuclear policy approved by the President of Russia, Dmitri Medvedev, November 19, 2024.
↑ Biden Authorised Long-Range Strikes on Russia - Colonel Douglas Macgregor & Professor Glenn Diesen, Nov 20, 2024. YouTube.
↑ 'World War 3 has already begun' according to chilling warning from Ukrainian ambassador, By Will Stewart Russia Correspondent Liam Buckler Senior US News Reporter, The Mirror, 21 Nov 2024. www.mirror.co.uk
↑ Biden Attempting to Start World War Three with Russia Before Trump Takes Office, David T. Pyne, Nov 21, 2024. dpyne.substack.com
↑ Putin warns ruling elites. Orban/Vucic; Russia not bluffing. BIDEN return nuclear weapons to Ukraine, Alex Christoforou, Nov 22, 2024. YouTube.
↑ 'WW3 HAS begun': No atomic mushroom clouds. No nightmare 'day after' scenario to survive. But military experts explain why they believe the third world war has already started By ELENA SALVONI, SENIOR FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER and DAVID AVERRE, CHIEF FOREIGN REPORTER and MIRIAM KUEPPER, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER. Published: 08:47 EDT, 1 December 2024 | Updated: 10:49 EDT, 1 December 2024. dailymail.co.uk
↑ Can Rahm Emanuel Flip the Script Again?, Bret Stephens, NYT oped, Dec. 3, 2024.
↑ We're back in Moscow. Here's why. Tucker Carlson, Rumble, December 3, 2024.
↑ Will Schryver, X, December 3, 2024.
↑ World War III Has Already Begun – And Businesses Need To Take Note, Bryce Hoffman, Forbes magazine, December 8, 2024. forbes.com
↑ Recep Erdogan, December 8, 2024. https://t.me/geopolitics_live
↑ "Nuclear war is good, it benefits us." 17.12.2024. poland.news-pravda.com
↑ On American expansionism. Russians With Attitude, January 8, 2025.
↑ DMITRI ROGOZIN ON FIGHTING AND FINISHING THE WAR DIFFERENTLY – ACCELERATION, DECAPITATION, MOBILIZATION. John Helmer, Dances With Bears, January 14, 2025. johnhelmer.org
↑ 2025: The Year the Global Order Unravels, by Nick Giambruno. zerohedge.com
↑ They will all stand at the feet of their master and gently wag their small tails!, Russia News, Feb 3, 2025
↑ Russia has chosen a sovereign path and changed the world order, Anton Belikov, Readovka, January 23, 2025. https://t.me/readovkanews
↑ Michael Hudson: Trump's tariff threats could destabilize the global economy, January 24, 2025. geopoliticaleconomy.com
↑ Velyka Novosilka Falls Without Fight, as '100 Day Peace Plan' Reportedly "Leaked", Simplicius, Jan 26, 2025. simplicius76.substack.com
↑ Secretary Marco Rubio with Megyn Kelly of The Megyn Kelly Show, January 30, 2025. state.gov
↑ Hungary’s Orbán Predicts That ‘Trump Tornado’ Will Bring Peace in Europe and Re-Insert Russia in the International Community, by Paul Serran, Feb. 14, 2025. thegatewaypundit.com
↑ Former MI6 boss on Trump, Putin and a 'new era' for international relations, BBC Newsnight, Feb 21, 2025.
↑ Trump’s America is no friend – Russia must stay the course, Fyodor Lukyanov, RT, February 26, 2025. rt.com
↑ Romania Bars Ultranationalist Candidate From Presidential Race, By Andrew Higgins, New York Times, Published March 9, 2025. nytimes.com
↑ The Night I Took On Britain's LBC Radio, Daniel Davis / Deep Dive, Mar 17, 2025. YouTube.
↑ Plenary session of the RSPP Congress, March 18, 2025. kremlin.ru
↑ The Ingraham Angle 3/26/25 YouTube
↑ John Feffer, Can Europe Stop Trump and Putin?, TomsDispatch, March 30, 2025. tomdispatch.com
↑ World majority countries see Russia-China relations as stabilizing factor — Lavrov, TASS, 1 Apr 2025. tass.com
↑ Keir Starmer: Keir Starmer: The world as we knew it has gone. Nobody wins from a trade war, UK Telegraph, 05 April 2025. telegraph.co.uk
↑ Javier Milei con Alejandro Fantino EN VIVO | La Cosa en Si - 14/04, Neura Media. YouTube.
↑ Donald Tusk, The Era of Naive Globalization is Over, Says Polish PM | The Bottom Line, TVP WORLD, April 16, 2025. YouTube.
↑ ‘West as we knew it no longer exists,’ EU Commission chief says as US tariffs bring Brussels and Beijing closer together, Lubomir Tassev. April 17, 2025. msn.com
↑ Alfredo Jalife-Rahme, — 🇮🇷/🇸🇦 Saudi Minister of Defense, April 17, 2025. Facebook post. facebook.com
↑ We Are Witnessing A Major Turning Point In The History Of Humanity, Michael Snyder, Apr 23, 2025. michaeltsnyder.substack.com
↑ Does the West really need to be great again?, Marco Carnelos, Apr 25, 2025. middleeasteye.net
↑ The End of Illusion, Anonymous, April 25, 2025. Voice from Russia. https://voicefromrussia.ch/en/
↑ If Ukraine falls, NATO is dead. Robert Schneider, BILD editor-in-chief, 26.04.2025.
↑ 100 days of change, the United States has changed the world, and we have fallen into the "rabbit hole", Yan Mo, 2025-04-29. www.guancha.cn
↑ Patrick Baab: German War Propaganda in the Ukraine War, Glenn Diesen, Apr 30, 2025. YouTube.
↑ Sic Transit Gloria Mundi, William Schryver, May 22, 2025.
↑ JD Vance Declares ‘Era of Uncontested US Dominance is OVER’ In Pro-Isolationist Speech at the Naval Academy, Mediate, May 23, 2025.
↑ The Metaphysics Behind Putin’s War on Liberalism, by Jussi Backman, June 4, 2025. blog.apaonline.org
↑ Douglas Macgregor: Russia Responds to Attack on Its Nuclear Forces, Glenn Diesen, Jun 10, 2025
↑ Putin's general declares 'WW3 has started' and demands ONE MILLION fresh troops, Will Stewart and Zahra Khaliq Mirror, 13 Jun 2025.
↑ The War in Ukraine Has Shattered the West’s Digital-Age Delusions, by David Betz and Michael Rainsborough, 15 June 2025. /dailysceptic.org "In short, digitalisation — once regarded as the West's ultimate strategic advantage — has failed to deliver the political returns its proponents anticipated. The concept was deceptively simple: combine precision weaponry with real-time data and operational mobility to achieve swift, efficient and low-cost victories. In the words of one tract in the mid-1990s, the aim is to apply massive shock with minimal force, such that the enemy is stunned into compliance. What Western strategists often overlooked was a basic fact: adversaries adapt. And many of them have invested not in apps or digital platforms, but in mass, resilience and industrial depth. The assumption that digital superiority would render conventional war obsolete, where the future of war belongs not to mass armies and tanks, but to decentralised networks and precision strikes', has not merely proven false — it has been inverted.... The war of the future, we were told, would be weightless, networked, almost antiseptic. While it is true that drone warfare has made a dramatic appearance as highly advanced form of surveillance and precision guided artillery, these new technologies have serviced very traditional modes of warfare. Instead of some new conception of war in the digital age, what we got instead was a flashback: steel, trenches and the long, grinding calculus of attrition.... The unspoken truth in all this is bleak but not especially complicated: strategically, Ukraine has already lost. So too — albeit less dramatically and more expensively — has Europe. And for anyone paying attention, this wasn't an unpredictable ending. It was the opening scene, played out exactly as the script always hinted it would. Viewed alongside the other glittering triumphs of Western statecraft — Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, Syria — it raises the uncomfortable question: why does strategic failure keep happening and who keeps hiring these people?
↑ Monitor Breakfast with Steve Bannon, The Christian Science Monitor, Jun 18, 2025. YouTube.
↑ “The war on sovereignty.” Patrick Lawrence, Jun 29, 2025. thefloutist.substack.com
↑ Elon Musk has announced the formation of a new political party, the America Party, declaring it aims to restore individual freedoms in the United States, WarFront Witness, July 5, 2025.
↑ US/Germany low on Patriots. Bibi, Trump Nobel Peace Prize. Kupyansk cauldron. Ursula in trouble, Alex Christoforou, July 8, 2025.
↑ Dmitry Trenin: The West’s war on Russia will go beyond Ukraine, RT, July 9, 2025. rt.com
↑ Prof. John Mearsheimer : Ukraine/Gaza/Iran: Is Peace Possible? Judge Napolitano, July 11, 2025.
↑ Analyst Exposes Epstein, Mossad, and the Real Power Behind U.S. Foreign Policy, Christian E. White, July 11, 2025. YouTube.
↑ Putin’s BIG Interview: ‘West Wanted Geopolitical Advantage, It Was NOT Ideology', Says Russia Prez, Mint, July 14, 2025. YouTube.
↑ The commander of U.S. Armed Forces in Europe and NATO Land Forces, General Christopher Donahue, has for the first time publicly confirmed the existence of a plan to suppress Russian defenses in the Kaliningrad region. July 18, 2025. t.me/ukraine_watch
↑ Anti-Access/Area Denial
↑ Russia says NATO threatens WWIII in latest deterrence plan that could take down Kaliningrad ‘faster than ever’, By Caitlin McFall, Fox News, Published July 18, 2025. foxnews.com
↑ Quoted in Army deep dive into Russian tactics in Ukraine says ‘global conflict’ with West will persist, By JOHN VANDIVER, STARS AND STRIPES, July 21, 2025. www.stripes.com
↑ Ukraine and Israel, Michael Yon, July 21, 2025. michaelyon.substack.com
↑ Lavrov: "They are all Nazis." Sorry to announce the situation is worsening globally. Geopolitical Gymnasium, July 28, 2025. karlof1.substack.com
↑ Dmitry Orlov: Is a MAJOR War Brewing Between the EU and Russia? Dialogue Works, July 25, 2025. YouTube.
↑ Living Through a Global Age of Upheaval and Shifting Justice, John Baker, Military Affairs, 01-08-2025. voennoedelo.com
↑ Michael Yon: “We’re Already in World War III” — Routes, Resources & The War for Your Mind, Christian E. White, YouTube, August 3, 2025.
↑ Alex Krainer: Ukraine, Palestine, Iran War & Cracks in Western Power, August 5, 2025.
↑ THE GREAT CAPITULATION: Washington Comes Crawling to Moscow, 07.08.2025. switzerland.news-pravda.com
↑ Trump–Putin Alaska Summit: Peace Talks And Power Plays On Former Russian Soil, Aug 09, 2025. zerohedge.com
↑ Bear, Dragon, Elephant, Toucan, Nightingale stare down Goldfinger, Pepe Escobar, August 13, 2025. strategic-culture.su
↑ Larry C. Johnson & Col. Larry Wilkerson: Trump & Putin in Alaska: Deals, Drama, and Dangerous Moves, Dialogue Works, August 15, 2025. YouTube.
↑ Larry C. Johnson & Col. Larry Wilkerson: Trump & Putin in Alaska: Deals, Drama, and Dangerous Moves, Dialogue Works, August 15, 2025. YouTube.
↑ The Ukraine War Was Always Going To End This Way, By: John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist, August 18, 2025. thefederalist.com
↑ https://t.me/wartimedia/105982
↑ How to resolve conflict in a multipolar world after the WEST v the REST | Prof Michael Rossi, The Burning Archive, Aug 21, 2025.
↑ Scott Ritter : Alaska Viewed From Moscow. Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom. August 21, 2025.
↑ The West has officially capitulated: it turned out why it is impossible to defeat Russia, Kirill Strelnikov, RIA Novosti, 24.08.2025. ria.ru
↑ A Conspiracy of Injustice. Scott Ritter, Aug 25, 2025. scottritter.substack.com
↑ Statement by the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and the establishment of the United Nations, September 1, 2025. karlof1.substack.com
↑ Putin's speech at the meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the SCO Member States, September 1, 2025, Tianjin, China. kremlin.ru
↑ Full text of Xi Jinping's speech at the "Shanghai Cooperation Organization Plus" Meeting. Xinhua, 2025-09-01. english.news.cn
↑ Concept Paper on the Global Governance Initiative, By Ministry of Foreign Affairs, China, Global Times, Published: Sep 02, 2025. www.globaltimes.cn
↑ Kremlin aide dismisses idea of leaders of Russia, China, North Korea conspiring against US', TASS, 3 Sep, 2025. tass.com
↑ Alex Krainer: Groundbreaking Changes Push the West Toward MASSIVE Clashes! Dialogue Works, Sep 4, 2025. YouTube.
↑ EU Slammed By China For Lack Of Basic History, Novara Media, Sep 5, 2025. YouTube
↑ Looks like we've lost India and Russia to the deepest, darkest, China. May they have a long and prosperous future together!, Donald Trump, Truth Social, September 5, 2025. truthsocial.com
↑ The ‘Reverse Kissinger’ That No One foresaw Nixon's Metternich is turning in his grave at the imbeciles undoing his main geopolitical legacy. Sumantra Maitra, The American Conservative, Sep 9, 2025.
↑ IN BRIEF: What is known about drone incident in Poland, Kirill Strelnikov, TASS, Sep 10, 2025. tass.com
↑ America’s allies may soon have to fend for themselves, By Timofey Bordachev, RT, September 17, 2025. rt.com
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↑ General Harald Kujat: NATO Provoked Ukraine War, Glenn Diesen, Sep 19, 2025. YouTube.
↑ Michael Hudson: Europe's Stockholm Syndrome, Glenn Diesen, Sep 20, 2025. YouTube.
↑ EUROPE IN CRISIS: Economic Isolation, Political Turmoil to Appease The US | Glenn Diesen, Rachel Blevins, Sep 22, 2025. YouTube.
↑ Douglas Macgregor: "War is Inevitable" Glenn Diesen, Sep 25, 2025. YouTube
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↑ The Recent Sino-US Dispute Over Taiwan’s Post-WWII Status Is A Sign Of The Times, Andrew Korybko, 11 Oct 25. https://thealtworld.com/andrew_korybko
↑ Alex Jones Warns of the Globalist Death Cult Fueling the Next Civil War and Rise of the Antichrist, Tucker Carlson, Oct 13, 2025.
↑ Future Global Order Pivots on Ukraine Proxy War, Brian Berletic, 21 Oct 25. thealtworld.com
↑ Trump's Russia Policy Descending Into Chaos, Mark Wauck, Meaning in History, Oct 27, 2025,
↑ Alastair Crooke : Netanyahu's War Against Israel, Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom. October 27, 2025.
↑ John Mearsheimer: New Nuclear Arms Race, Pentagon to Resume Testing, Daniel Davis / Deep Dive, Oct 30, 2025. YouTube.
↑ Pentagon chief likens current world situation with 1939, when World War II began, 8 Nov 2025. TASS. tass.com
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↑ Hungary’s USAID Documentaries Aim to Expose Political Interference by “Progressive” NGOs, Rod Lampard, Nov 11, 2025. caldronpool.com
↑ Aearnur, UKRAINE: THE POWER AND THE LIABILITY OF LIES, Nov 15, 2025. aearnur.substack.com
↑ German chancellor calls for EU to become a full-fledged European defence union, Anadolu Agency, November 17, 2025. tribune.com.pk
↑ New Russian Offensive STEAMROLLING Ukraine in Zaporizhia, HistoryLegends, Nov 19, 2025.
↑ 'Settlement' Carnival Reaches Fever Pitch as Antsy Euros Jockey for Relevancy, Simplicius, Nov 25, 2025. simplicius76.substack.com
↑ Andrey Kartapolov says Europeans will have to kneel before Russia if it wins in Ukraine, Russian Media Monitor, Nov 25, 2025. YouTube.
↑ John Mearsheimer (Clip): This Is Not a Proxy War Anymore - The West Has Gone to War Against Russia, Prof. Glenn Diesen Clips, Nov 27, 2025.
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↑ Trump has shattered the European liberal illusion, By Ladislav Zemánek, 6 Dec, 2025. rt.com
↑ Jack Matlock: NATO Expansion, Coup & Subversion of Ukraine Started the War, Glenn Diesen, December 10, 2025. YouTube.
↑ Politico, Danish intelligence classifies Trump’s America as a security risk, By Antoaneta Roussi, December 11, 2025.
↑ The US is teaching its European allies a harsh lesson in who’s really in charge, 12 Dec, 2025. rt.com
↑ No More Ukraine Proxy War? You're a Traitor! /Glenn Diesen & Lt Col Daniel Davis, Daniel Davis / Deep Dive, Dec 15, 2025.
↑ Yanis Varoufakis | Russia Opens the Odessa Corridor — NATO’s Worst Fear Begins, Yanis Explained, December 15, 2025. YouTube.
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↑ Scott Ritter: This Is How It All COLLAPSES — Russia’s Role Explained, Dialogue Works, Dec 24, 2025. YouTube.
↑ Yanis Varoufakis | The Petrodollar Just Died—And Banks Are Hiding the Consequences | Yanis explained, Dec 26, 2025. YouTube
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User:RobSmith's essays

[1] It became known who supplies drugs to Zelensky and Yermak, Evgeny Falko, 28 July 2025. gazeta.ru

[2] The £1m man: why did Boris Johnson take his donor to Ukraine?, Tom Burgis, Guardian, 10 Oct 2025. theguardian.com

[3] Ted Snider, The Unraveling of Volodymyr Zelensky, The American Conservative, November 29, 2025.

[4] Did Boris Johnson Take a Bribe to Keep the War Going in Ukraine?, Larry C. Johnson, Oct 12, 2025.

[5] BlackRock CEO Larry Fink says Ukraine war spells end of globalization, By Ariel Zilber, New York Post, March 24, 2022. nypost.com

[6] Trump's Hitlerian Month, A September to Remember, Timothy Snyder, Sep 29, 2024. snyder.substack.com

[7] THE ENTIRE WORLD WILL NOW SUFFER DUE TO A CATASTROPHIC FAILURE OF WESTERN LEADERSHIP, Aearnur, March 26, 2022. aearnur.substack.com

[8] Volodymyr Zelensky in his own words. The transcript from his meeting with our journalists. The Economist, Mar 27, 2022.

[9] Ukraine Is Just the Beginning. The Geopolitical Consequences of the Special Operation Will Change the Entire View of the World, Konstantin Sivkov, Translated and Foreword by Lt. Col. Charles K. Bartles, U.S. Army Reserve. May 2022. www.armyupress.army.mil

[10] Former Top Biden Admin Official Admits The U.S. Could Have Prevented War, 'Destruction And Loss Of Life' In Ukraine. One Of Joe Biden's Leading Officials In Ukraine Admitted That NATO Provoked the Proxy War In Ukraine, The Dissident, Dec 11, 2025. the307.substack.com

[11] Andrei Martyanov: The War is Over & Russia May Seize Odessa, Glenn Diesen, Apr 8, 2025.

[12] Thomas Friedman: What is happening in Ukraine is the real World War I, Teller Report, 4/4/2022. tellerreport.com

[13] Tulsi Gabbard Issues Warning About Potential War With Russia, by Eric Garris, Apr 15, 2021. antiwar.com

[14] Viscount Bernard Law Montgomery's Speech In the House of Lords, api.parliament.uk. May 30, 1962.

[15] The Unipole in Twilight, The Independent Institute, Fall 2021. www.independent.org

[16] Elon Musk, January 4, 2024. twitter.com

[17] Kirill Dmitriev, X, Oct 7, 2025.

[18] Declassified Ukraine Report, October 7, 2025.

[19] Biden gave Putin list of 16 critical infrastructure entities 'off limits' to cyberattacks, By Morgan Phillips, FOX Business, June 16, 2021.

[20] "Atlantic press" is a French idiom for English language Angelo-American media outlets.

[21] Russia declares war on the Straussians, by Thierry Meyssan, VOLTAIRE NETWORK | PARIS (FRANCE) | 5 MARCH 2022.

[22] US-Led Drive to Isolate Russia and China Is Falling Short, By Alan Crawford, Jenni Marsh, and Antony Sguazzin, Bloomberg News, August 5, 2022.

[23] The Reagan-Gorbachev Statement: Background, European Leadership Network, 17 November 2021.

[24] Biden Policy Allows First Use of Nuclear Weapons, Arms Control Association, April 2022.

[25] Kiev’s recognition of modern territorial realities on talks agenda — Foreign Ministry The Russian-Ukrainian negotiations began on February 28, March 29, 2022.

[26] The only ones who could settle the war against Ukraine are the Americans.

[27] Interview with Gerhard Schröder: How the peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia failed, Tomasz Kurianowicz and Moritz Eichhorn, Berliner Zeitung, 22.10.2023.

[28] KanekoaTheGreat, Oct 19, 2023. Original source: Prof. Mearsheimer interview with Judge Napolitano, October 12, 2023. YouTube.

[29] The Failed Ukrainian Peace Deal, By Abdul Rahman, Consortium News, June 22, 2023.

[30] Western Allies Led By UK's Johnson Sabotaged Tentative Ukraine-Russia Peace Deal... In April, Tyler Durden, AUG 31, 2022.

[31] WHEN, HOW AND WHY DID THE WAR IN UKRAINE TRULY BEGIN?, Aearnur, Oct 17, 2024. aearnur.substack.com/

[32] Poland announced the deployment of US nuclear weapons in the country, Yuette Agude, Apr 5, 2022. YouTube. "Poland announced preparations for the deployment of US nuclear weapons on its territory. American nuclear weapons will be deployed on the territory of Poland. According to the Deputy Prime Minister of Poland, agreements have now been fully reached allowing Washington to relocate its nuclear arsenals to the country in any required quantity. "Poland is open to the deployment of US nuclear weapons," says Jarosław Kaczynski, leader of Poland's ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party. In an interview with the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag, the influential politician said that this "clearly strengthens the containment of Moscow." As far as we know, the Americans have no plans to deploy nuclear weapons in Poland, but according to Kaczynski, this could quickly change under the influence of Russia's special operation (ed.) in Ukraine. According to him, it would be a logical step to have nuclear weapons on the eastern border of the NATO zone.", according to the Teller Report. The deployment of nuclear weapons on the territory of Poland could lead to an extremely serious escalation between NATO and Russia, since if even tactical nuclear weapons appeared in Poland, a very serious threat would appear both for the Kaliningrad region and for neighboring Belarus, which is not only a member of the Union State, but and a member of the CSTO. The Russian side has not yet responded to Poland's calls to deploy US nuclear weapons in the country."

[33] The Leaders of France, Germany, and Italy Favor Negotiations to End Ukraine War, by Dave DeCamp, May 16, 2022. antiwar.com

[34] Andromeda11711 tweet, Jun 18, 2023:💥 "I know for a fact that the war could have been stopped back in March." Ukrainian journalist Diana Panchenko on the Istanbul peace treaty: "A man from Zelensky's inner circle told me: 'We just got rid of the Russians in March. He bragged about it... Friends, I know them all personally. They are ruled by sociopaths. They don't understand the consequences. Yesterday, Putin gave the Kiev regime a real knockout blow. Imagine Zelensky beating his chest and assuring the Ukrainians that there are no agreements with Russia. That's exactly why the Bucha fake was staged: the Kiev regime needed to show that the Russians hadn't left on their own, but that the Kiev region had supposedly been liberated by the Ukrainian military. The provocation in Bucha was necessary to falsify the reason for the rejection of the agreements by making a fuss in the Western media. Britain, China, the USA, Turkey, France and Belarus were listed as security guarantors for Ukraine in the Istanbul Treaty, which Ukraine did not want to fulfil. Of course, Zelensky was forbidden by Washington and London to comply, but in this situation it does not matter, because it was Ukraine that violated the treaty. Yesterday's statement by Vladimir Putin completely destroys the myth of Ukraine's independence in decision-making and clearly shows the people of Ukraine what Zelensky got them into: he had an opportunity to avoid a disaster. There would have been no deaths or destruction. A viable Ukrainian economy would have been preserved. No one would have interfered with Ukraine's "independence"! But it was the Kiev regime that dragged Ukraine into a major war, and it can no longer stop what is happening. https://t.me/ukraine_watch/4397

[35] Putin and the African Leaders - The Treaty of Istanbul, Jun 18, 2023. YouTube.

[36] IN UKRAINE THE WESTERN POWERS HAVE CREATED A POISONOUS WEB OF LIES, AEARNUR, NOV 11, 2023. aearnur.substack.com

[37] The War in Ukraine Is Getting Complicated, and America Isn’t Ready, By The Editorial Board, New York Times, May 19, 2022.

[38] WESTERN LEADERS CONTINUE TO TURN THE HANDLE OF THE UKRAINIAN MEATGRINDER, AEARNUR, SEP 16, 2023. aearnur.substack.com

[39] Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post Columnist Calls for the End of Impartiality and Balance in Journalism, September 24, 2022. jonathanturley.org

[40] Status of US Dollar as Global Reserve Currency and USD Exchange Rates: Long, Slow, Uneven Decline Continues, January 2, 2024, By Wolf Richter, editor at Wolf Street. Originally published at Wolf Street. www.nakedcapitalism.com

[41] In for a Pound, WILLIAM SCHRYVER, DEC 23, 2023. Originally published December 23, 2022.

[42] A conversation with Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki, Atlantic Council, April 13, 2023. atlanticcouncil.org

[43] The Ontological Incoherence of American Imperial Exceptionalism, William Schryver, Feb 23, 2023. imetatronink.substack.com

[44] Robert Freeman, Ukraine: The Tunnel at the End of the Light, Consortium News, February 28, 2023. consortiumnews.com

[45] Ukraine Sitrep - Reality Defeats The War Narrative, Moon of Alabama, July 18, 2023. moonofalabama.org

[46] John Mearsheimer: Ukraine war is a long-term danger, The Grayzone, Jul 30, 2023. YouTube

[47] Ukraine’s slow counteroffensive is a wake-up call for the West, By Maksym Skrypchenko, Atlantic Council, August 7, 2023. atlanticcouncil.org

[48] Viktor Orbán- "Everybody Knows Ukraine Cannot Win", Good Lawgic, Streamed live on Aug 30, 2023. YouTube

[49] Entangled in a Web of Deceit, interview with Larry C. Johnson, Dialogue Works, Sep 10, 2023. YouTube

[50] The War in Ukraine Has Become a Turning Point in the History of Civilization – Yaroslav Hrytsak, Ukrainian Catholic University, 11 SEPTEMBER, 2023. https://ucu.edu.ua

[51] Secretary Blinken's speech at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, U.S. Department of State, Sep 13, 2023. YouTube.

[52] Rewriting the rules of globalization, By GAVIN BADE, Politico, 09/22/2023

[53] Jews, Poles, & Russians Have United To Condemn Canada For Glorifying A Literal Nazi, ANDREW KORYBKO, SEP 25, 2023.

[54] From Applauding Nazis To Backing An Actual Genocide In Under A Month, CAITLIN JOHNSTONE, OCT 19, 2023.

[55] JPMorgan Chase & Co. New Release, October 13, 2023

[56] Rush by west to back Israel erodes developing countries’ support for Ukraine, Henry Foy, Financial Times, OCTOBER 17 2023. ft.com

[57] Remarks by President Biden at a Campaign Reception, OCTOBER 20, 2023. www.whitehouse.gov

[58] Most dangerous and important decade since WWII lies ahead, Putin says, 27 OCT 2022. TASS. tass.com

[59] Itapirkanmaa2, October 29, 2023, YouTube

[60] Leading Russian foreign policy expert expresses 3rd World War is underway, 11/1/2023. menafn.com

[61] BRICS Overtaking G7 In Economic Might, 13/11/2023.

[62] How Obama And Biden’s America-Last Ethos Demoted The U.S. From World Leader To Loser, SHAWN FLEETWOOD, The Federalist, NOVEMBER 14, 2023. thefederalist.com

[63] House Homeland Chair Green to warn US is at 'one of the most dangerous times' in history during threat hearing, By Brooke Singman, Adam Shaw, Fox News, November 15, 2023. foxnews.com

[64] WaPo: Opinion Joe Biden: The U.S. won’t back down from the challenge of Putin and Hamas, By Joe Biden, November 18, 2023.

[65] Empty Quiver, WILLIAM SCHRYVER, DEC 21, 2023.

[66] European leaders brace for ‘some kind of a new cold war’ with Russia, By PAUL MCLEARY, Politico, 12/21/2023.

[67] Sergei Ryabkov: Diplomatic relations with the United States are not a totem to be worshipped, 22 December 2023. www.interfax.ru

[68] Oleksiy Arestovych: Zelenskyy’s challenger, Unherd, January 15, 2024. unherd.com

[69] This Is Normal..., Andrei Martynov, Reminiscence of the Future, January 16, 2024. smoothiex12.blogspot.com

[70] 'Incredibly stark': Biden aides give lawmakers a grim assessment of Ukraine without more aid, By Monica Alba and Julie Tsirkin, NBC News, Jan. 20, 2024. nbcnews.com

[71] Why We're Interviewing Vladimir Putin, Tucker Carlson, Feb 6, 2024. YouTube.

[72] Ukraine’s Nazi foreign minister says ‘era of peace’ in Europe is over, Burç Eruygur, Giovanni Legorano, posted by INTEL-DROP, February 18, 2024. www.theinteldrop.org

[73] Why America Can’t Have It All, By Stephen Wertheim, February 14, 2024. foreignaffairs.com.

[74] UKRAINE: THE LEADERS OF THE COLLECTIVE WEST WILL TWIST & TURN IN VAIN: Humiliation for all who worked to use Ukraine as a weapon against Russia is coming closer by the day. The political/geopolitical consequences of the West-promoted Ukrainian debacle will be immense. Aearnur’s Newsletter, Feb 28, 2024.

[75] Munich dispatch: Gaza 'wind blowing against the West', MARC MARTORELL JUNYENT, Responsible Statecraft, FEB 18, 2024. responsiblestatecraft.org

[76] The Bitter Pill of Decisive Strategic Defeat, William Schryver, Feb 28, 2024. imetatronink.substack.com

[77] No More Hegemony of the West, a New World Order is Emerging, Warns Viktor Orbán, MTI-Hungary, March 6, 2024. hungarytoday.hu

[78] Tusk: Time of peace in EU is over, we live in pre-war times, Ukrinform, March 10, 2924.

[79] This Prophetic Academic Now Foresees the West’s Defeat, book review of Emmanuel Todd's La Défaite de L’Occident (The Defeat of the West), NYT, March 9, 2024.

[80] US destroyed anti-terrorism cooperation – Moscow, RT, March 24, 2024. rt.com

[81] Polish leader warns of 'prewar era,' urges European nations to invest in defense, Louis Casiano By Louis Casiano, Fox News, March 29, 2024.

[82] Media ADMITS Ukraine Is COLLAPSING!!!, Steve Turley, April 4, 2024. YouTube

[83] Jamie Dimon Warns World Faces "Risks That Eclipse Anything Since World War II", BY TYLER DURDEN, APR 09, 2024. zerohedge.com

[84] My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away. [1]

[85] BORIS JOHNSON: If Ukraine falls, it'll be a catastrophic turning point in history - and an utter humiliation for the West... Why the hell are we waiting to give this heroic nation the weapons it needs?, By BORIS JOHNSON, Daily Mail, 12 April 2024.

[86] The US Army's power to rapidly defeat enemies may be a thing of the past, Michael Peck, Business Insider, April 14, 2024. msn.com

[87] The World You Knew No Longer Exists, SAM FADDIS, APR 15, 2024. andmagazine.substack.com/

[88] Post-WWII order on 'brink of collapse': Amnesty head, James Pheby, Yahoo News, April 23, 2024. yahoo.com

[89] Macron warns Europe ‘can die’ in alarmist speech on protectionism, geopolitical threats, BY CLEA CAULCUTT, Politico, APRIL 25, 2024. politico.eu

[90] The liberal international order is slowly coming apart Its collapse could be sudden and irreversible, The Economist, May 9, 2024. www.economist.com

[91] RAY McGOVERN: Russia & China — Two Against One, Consortium News, May 17, 2024. consortiumnews.com

[92] Russia ‘done’ with Western Europe ‘for at least a generation’ – Lavrov, RT, 18 May, 2024. rt.com

[93] Ukraine Weekly Update, Dr. Rob Campbell, 24 May 2024. robcampbell.substack.com

[94] Col. Douglas Macgregor Exposes: U.S Neocon Agenda Ignites Chaos in Ukraine & Bosnia for Global Power, May 24, 2024.

[95] President of Russia Vladimir Putin’s speech at the meeting with senior staff of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Moscow, June 14, 2024. mid.ru

[96] Sergei Karaganov: Nuclear escalation may open Pandora’s box, but it will also free the world from the 500-year-long Western yoke, Ukraina.ru, June 21, 2024. karaganov.ru.
Karaganov goes on: "But when the Americans felt that they were losing their global leadership, they decided to dump all restrictions in the hope of restoring military superiority, the foundation upon which the West's dominance in other areas had rested for five centuries, and most importantly the possibility to syphon off world wealth. But it didn’t work out, and it won’t. Russia’s hypersonic, Poseidon and other systems have ruined these hopes. They abandoned the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles [the treaty between the USSR and the USA, signed by Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan on 8 December, 1987 during a Soviet-American summit in Washington ]. They unilaterally renounced the Russia-NATO Founding Act, the ABM Treaty, and so on. Instead they have got a war that they will lose either in disgrace or otherwise. It’s regrettable that we will have to sacrifice our men for that… However we will ensure our security and sovereignty, and we will also free the world from the 500-year-long Western yoke. I hope we will stop at nothing to make sure that the threat of war never comes from Europe again. Europe is the spawn of evil for the whole world. This is where both world wars started, during the life of one generation, the sin, which has long been forgotten by the Europeans, who are also apparently losing their mind on top of it all. Europe’s current ruling circles bring the feeling of disgust and disdain. Let’s hope new ones will come to take their place."

[97] The Big Picture behind Viktor The Mediator’s peace shuttle, PEPE ESCOBAR, 9 JUL 24. thealtworld.com/pepe_escobar

[98] The Russo-Ukrainian war as a war of transition, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Ukrainska Pravda, 22 July 2024. pravda.com.ua

[99] Commission on the National Defense Strategy Final Report, Rand Corp., July 29, 2024. www.rand.org

[100] Opinion The next president must restore our faith in America, By Jamie Dimon, Washington Post op-ed, August 2, 2024. washingtonpost.com

[101] This Is The End Of Bretton-Woods, CDM, August 5, 2024. rumble.com

[102] Doug Casey's Take ep.#339 Michael Yon: The Life You Had Before is Over..., August 8, 2024. odysee.com/@dougcasey:5

[103] How BRICS and the SCO Are REMAKING the World Order, Dr. Steve Turley, Aug 12, 2024. YouTube

[104] Dmitry Trenin: This European region could be the next Ukraine, August 15, 2024. www.sott.net

[105] Amazon.com, America's Final War – by Andrei Martyanov (Author)

[106] Standing for Freedom Center Staff, August 16, 2024. standingforfreedom.com

[107] John Rubino. rubino.substack.com

[108] From Soviet Dissident to Target of US Deep State | Dimitri K. Simes Interview, Counter Currents, Aug 30, 2024. YouTube

[109] Security Council of the Russian Federation: The United States is trying to squeeze Russia out of all international anti-terrorist formats, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, September 9, 2022. rg.ru

[110] Washington tasks Kiev with attacking ordinary Russians — ambassador, TASS, September 12, 2024. tass.com

[111] Andrei Martyanov: Russia Ready for All-Out War if NATO Strikes!, Dialogue Works, Sep 26, 2024. YouTube

[112] Economic Collapse & the Post-American World, Glenn Diesen, Oct 02, 2024. glenndiesen.substack.com

[113] Exclusive: Russia's Lavrov Warns of 'Dangerous Consequences' for US in Ukraine, Newsweek, Oct 07, 2024. www.newsweek.com

[114] Donald Trump Is the Only Choice to Keep Us From Sleepwalking to Armageddon | Opinion by Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, October 14, 2024. msn.com

[115] MAINSTREAM ALT-MEDIA, by Observer R, 15 October 2024. sonar21.com

[116] Opinion World War III is already under way. Not that Harris or Trump has noticed. By George F. Will, The Washington Post, October 16, 2024. www.washingtonpost.com

[117] [https://tass.com/politics/1858435 BRICS summit, not US elections, will determine course of history — Russian official, TASS, 19 Oct 2024. tass.com

[118] Putin says BRICS, not the West, will drive global economic growth, Reuters, Oct 19 2024 cnbc.com

[119] PUTIN Re-Shaping the World Right in Front of Us w/Larry Johnson, Daniel Davis / Deep Dive w Larry Johnson, October 22, 2024. YouTube.

[120] IMF Sees Growth Shift Toward BRICS and Away From G-7 in New Outlook, By Alexandre Tanzi, Bloomberg News, October 23, 2024. bloomberg.com

[121] Donald Trump, October 24, 2024.

[122] World War III Has Already Begun, JP Morgan Boss Says, By Suzanne Blake, Newsweek. Published Oct 29, 2024 Updated Oct 30, 2024. newsweek.com

[123] World now has three superpowers, Mark Milley, October 31, 2024. www.herald.co.zw

[124] ‘Trump fundamentally doesn't care about Ukraine’ – Michael McFaul on US elections, by Francis Farrell, Kyiv Independent, November 3, 2024. kyivindependent.com

[125] Election Aftermath: Notes on the 'Grand Realignment', Simplicius, Nov 06, 2024. simplicius76.substack.com

[126] Putin commented on the results of the elections in the US, Geopolitics Live, Nov 7, 2024. t.me/geopolitics_live

[127] Celente Just Warned A Radical 2025 Will See One Wildcard Played After Another, November 15, 2024. kingworldnews.com

[128] "On the unconfirmed decision to strike “deep into Russia” and the decision on Russia’s nuclear policy approved by the President of Russia, Dmitri Medvedev, November 19, 2024.

[129] Biden Authorised Long-Range Strikes on Russia - Colonel Douglas Macgregor & Professor Glenn Diesen, Nov 20, 2024. YouTube.

[130] 'World War 3 has already begun' according to chilling warning from Ukrainian ambassador, By Will Stewart Russia Correspondent Liam Buckler Senior US News Reporter, The Mirror, 21 Nov 2024. www.mirror.co.uk

[131] Biden Attempting to Start World War Three with Russia Before Trump Takes Office, David T. Pyne, Nov 21, 2024. dpyne.substack.com

[132] Putin warns ruling elites. Orban/Vucic; Russia not bluffing. BIDEN return nuclear weapons to Ukraine, Alex Christoforou, Nov 22, 2024. YouTube.

[133] 'WW3 HAS begun': No atomic mushroom clouds. No nightmare 'day after' scenario to survive. But military experts explain why they believe the third world war has already started By ELENA SALVONI, SENIOR FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER and DAVID AVERRE, CHIEF FOREIGN REPORTER and MIRIAM KUEPPER, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER. Published: 08:47 EDT, 1 December 2024 | Updated: 10:49 EDT, 1 December 2024. dailymail.co.uk

[134] Can Rahm Emanuel Flip the Script Again?, Bret Stephens, NYT oped, Dec. 3, 2024.

[135] We're back in Moscow. Here's why. Tucker Carlson, Rumble, December 3, 2024.

[136] Will Schryver, X, December 3, 2024.

[137] World War III Has Already Begun – And Businesses Need To Take Note, Bryce Hoffman, Forbes magazine, December 8, 2024. forbes.com

[138] Recep Erdogan, December 8, 2024. https://t.me/geopolitics_live

[139] "Nuclear war is good, it benefits us." 17.12.2024. poland.news-pravda.com

[140] On American expansionism. Russians With Attitude, January 8, 2025.

[141] DMITRI ROGOZIN ON FIGHTING AND FINISHING THE WAR DIFFERENTLY – ACCELERATION, DECAPITATION, MOBILIZATION. John Helmer, Dances With Bears, January 14, 2025. johnhelmer.org

[142] 2025: The Year the Global Order Unravels, by Nick Giambruno. zerohedge.com

[143] They will all stand at the feet of their master and gently wag their small tails!, Russia News, Feb 3, 2025

[144] Russia has chosen a sovereign path and changed the world order, Anton Belikov, Readovka, January 23, 2025. https://t.me/readovkanews

[145] Michael Hudson: Trump's tariff threats could destabilize the global economy, January 24, 2025. geopoliticaleconomy.com

[146] Velyka Novosilka Falls Without Fight, as '100 Day Peace Plan' Reportedly "Leaked", Simplicius, Jan 26, 2025. simplicius76.substack.com

[147] Secretary Marco Rubio with Megyn Kelly of The Megyn Kelly Show, January 30, 2025. state.gov

[148] Hungary’s Orbán Predicts That ‘Trump Tornado’ Will Bring Peace in Europe and Re-Insert Russia in the International Community, by Paul Serran, Feb. 14, 2025. thegatewaypundit.com

[149] Former MI6 boss on Trump, Putin and a 'new era' for international relations, BBC Newsnight, Feb 21, 2025.

[150] Trump’s America is no friend – Russia must stay the course, Fyodor Lukyanov, RT, February 26, 2025. rt.com

[151] Romania Bars Ultranationalist Candidate From Presidential Race, By Andrew Higgins, New York Times, Published March 9, 2025. nytimes.com

[152] The Night I Took On Britain's LBC Radio, Daniel Davis / Deep Dive, Mar 17, 2025. YouTube.

[153] Plenary session of the RSPP Congress, March 18, 2025. kremlin.ru

[154] The Ingraham Angle 3/26/25 YouTube

[155] John Feffer, Can Europe Stop Trump and Putin?, TomsDispatch, March 30, 2025. tomdispatch.com

[156] World majority countries see Russia-China relations as stabilizing factor — Lavrov, TASS, 1 Apr 2025. tass.com

[157] Keir Starmer: Keir Starmer: The world as we knew it has gone. Nobody wins from a trade war, UK Telegraph, 05 April 2025. telegraph.co.uk

[158] Javier Milei con Alejandro Fantino EN VIVO | La Cosa en Si - 14/04, Neura Media. YouTube.

[159] Donald Tusk, The Era of Naive Globalization is Over, Says Polish PM | The Bottom Line, TVP WORLD, April 16, 2025. YouTube.

[160] ‘West as we knew it no longer exists,’ EU Commission chief says as US tariffs bring Brussels and Beijing closer together, Lubomir Tassev. April 17, 2025. msn.com

[161] Alfredo Jalife-Rahme, — 🇮🇷/🇸🇦 Saudi Minister of Defense, April 17, 2025. Facebook post. facebook.com

[162] We Are Witnessing A Major Turning Point In The History Of Humanity, Michael Snyder, Apr 23, 2025. michaeltsnyder.substack.com

[163] Does the West really need to be great again?, Marco Carnelos, Apr 25, 2025. middleeasteye.net

[164] The End of Illusion, Anonymous, April 25, 2025. Voice from Russia. https://voicefromrussia.ch/en/

[165] If Ukraine falls, NATO is dead. Robert Schneider, BILD editor-in-chief, 26.04.2025.

[166] 100 days of change, the United States has changed the world, and we have fallen into the "rabbit hole", Yan Mo, 2025-04-29. www.guancha.cn

[167] Patrick Baab: German War Propaganda in the Ukraine War, Glenn Diesen, Apr 30, 2025. YouTube.

[168] Sic Transit Gloria Mundi, William Schryver, May 22, 2025.

[169] JD Vance Declares ‘Era of Uncontested US Dominance is OVER’ In Pro-Isolationist Speech at the Naval Academy, Mediate, May 23, 2025.

[170] The Metaphysics Behind Putin’s War on Liberalism, by Jussi Backman, June 4, 2025. blog.apaonline.org

[171] Douglas Macgregor: Russia Responds to Attack on Its Nuclear Forces, Glenn Diesen, Jun 10, 2025

[172] Putin's general declares 'WW3 has started' and demands ONE MILLION fresh troops, Will Stewart and Zahra Khaliq Mirror, 13 Jun 2025.

[173] The War in Ukraine Has Shattered the West’s Digital-Age Delusions, by David Betz and Michael Rainsborough, 15 June 2025. /dailysceptic.org "In short, digitalisation — once regarded as the West's ultimate strategic advantage — has failed to deliver the political returns its proponents anticipated. The concept was deceptively simple: combine precision weaponry with real-time data and operational mobility to achieve swift, efficient and low-cost victories. In the words of one tract in the mid-1990s, the aim is to apply massive shock with minimal force, such that the enemy is stunned into compliance. What Western strategists often overlooked was a basic fact: adversaries adapt. And many of them have invested not in apps or digital platforms, but in mass, resilience and industrial depth. The assumption that digital superiority would render conventional war obsolete, where the future of war belongs not to mass armies and tanks, but to decentralised networks and precision strikes', has not merely proven false — it has been inverted.... The war of the future, we were told, would be weightless, networked, almost antiseptic. While it is true that drone warfare has made a dramatic appearance as highly advanced form of surveillance and precision guided artillery, these new technologies have serviced very traditional modes of warfare. Instead of some new conception of war in the digital age, what we got instead was a flashback: steel, trenches and the long, grinding calculus of attrition.... The unspoken truth in all this is bleak but not especially complicated: strategically, Ukraine has already lost. So too — albeit less dramatically and more expensively — has Europe. And for anyone paying attention, this wasn't an unpredictable ending. It was the opening scene, played out exactly as the script always hinted it would. Viewed alongside the other glittering triumphs of Western statecraft — Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, Syria — it raises the uncomfortable question: why does strategic failure keep happening and who keeps hiring these people?

[174] Monitor Breakfast with Steve Bannon, The Christian Science Monitor, Jun 18, 2025. YouTube.

[175] “The war on sovereignty.” Patrick Lawrence, Jun 29, 2025. thefloutist.substack.com

[176] Elon Musk has announced the formation of a new political party, the America Party, declaring it aims to restore individual freedoms in the United States, WarFront Witness, July 5, 2025.

[177] US/Germany low on Patriots. Bibi, Trump Nobel Peace Prize. Kupyansk cauldron. Ursula in trouble, Alex Christoforou, July 8, 2025.

[178] Dmitry Trenin: The West’s war on Russia will go beyond Ukraine, RT, July 9, 2025. rt.com

[179] Prof. John Mearsheimer : Ukraine/Gaza/Iran: Is Peace Possible? Judge Napolitano, July 11, 2025.

[180] Analyst Exposes Epstein, Mossad, and the Real Power Behind U.S. Foreign Policy, Christian E. White, July 11, 2025. YouTube.

[181] Putin’s BIG Interview: ‘West Wanted Geopolitical Advantage, It Was NOT Ideology', Says Russia Prez, Mint, July 14, 2025. YouTube.

[182] The commander of U.S. Armed Forces in Europe and NATO Land Forces, General Christopher Donahue, has for the first time publicly confirmed the existence of a plan to suppress Russian defenses in the Kaliningrad region. July 18, 2025. t.me/ukraine_watch

[183] Anti-Access/Area Denial

[184] Russia says NATO threatens WWIII in latest deterrence plan that could take down Kaliningrad ‘faster than ever’, By Caitlin McFall, Fox News, Published July 18, 2025. foxnews.com

[185] Quoted in Army deep dive into Russian tactics in Ukraine says ‘global conflict’ with West will persist, By JOHN VANDIVER, STARS AND STRIPES, July 21, 2025. www.stripes.com

[186] Ukraine and Israel, Michael Yon, July 21, 2025. michaelyon.substack.com

[187] Lavrov: "They are all Nazis." Sorry to announce the situation is worsening globally. Geopolitical Gymnasium, July 28, 2025. karlof1.substack.com

[188] Dmitry Orlov: Is a MAJOR War Brewing Between the EU and Russia? Dialogue Works, July 25, 2025. YouTube.

[189] Living Through a Global Age of Upheaval and Shifting Justice, John Baker, Military Affairs, 01-08-2025. voennoedelo.com

[190] Michael Yon: “We’re Already in World War III” — Routes, Resources & The War for Your Mind, Christian E. White, YouTube, August 3, 2025.

[191] Alex Krainer: Ukraine, Palestine, Iran War & Cracks in Western Power, August 5, 2025.

[192] THE GREAT CAPITULATION: Washington Comes Crawling to Moscow, 07.08.2025. switzerland.news-pravda.com

[193] Trump–Putin Alaska Summit: Peace Talks And Power Plays On Former Russian Soil, Aug 09, 2025. zerohedge.com

[194] Bear, Dragon, Elephant, Toucan, Nightingale stare down Goldfinger, Pepe Escobar, August 13, 2025. strategic-culture.su

[195] Larry C. Johnson & Col. Larry Wilkerson: Trump & Putin in Alaska: Deals, Drama, and Dangerous Moves, Dialogue Works, August 15, 2025. YouTube.

[196] Larry C. Johnson & Col. Larry Wilkerson: Trump & Putin in Alaska: Deals, Drama, and Dangerous Moves, Dialogue Works, August 15, 2025. YouTube.

[197] The Ukraine War Was Always Going To End This Way, By: John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist, August 18, 2025. thefederalist.com

[198] ttps://t.me/wartimedia/105982

[199] How to resolve conflict in a multipolar world after the WEST v the REST | Prof Michael Rossi, The Burning Archive, Aug 21, 2025.

[200] Scott Ritter : Alaska Viewed From Moscow. Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom. August 21, 2025.

[201] The West has officially capitulated: it turned out why it is impossible to defeat Russia, Kirill Strelnikov, RIA Novosti, 24.08.2025. ria.ru

[202] A Conspiracy of Injustice. Scott Ritter, Aug 25, 2025. scottritter.substack.com

[203] Statement by the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and the establishment of the United Nations, September 1, 2025. karlof1.substack.com

[204] Putin's speech at the meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the SCO Member States, September 1, 2025, Tianjin, China. kremlin.ru

[205] Full text of Xi Jinping's speech at the "Shanghai Cooperation Organization Plus" Meeting. Xinhua, 2025-09-01. english.news.cn

[206] Concept Paper on the Global Governance Initiative, By Ministry of Foreign Affairs, China, Global Times, Published: Sep 02, 2025. www.globaltimes.cn

[207] Kremlin aide dismisses idea of leaders of Russia, China, North Korea conspiring against US', TASS, 3 Sep, 2025. tass.com

[208] Alex Krainer: Groundbreaking Changes Push the West Toward MASSIVE Clashes! Dialogue Works, Sep 4, 2025. YouTube.

[209] EU Slammed By China For Lack Of Basic History, Novara Media, Sep 5, 2025. YouTube

[210] Looks like we've lost India and Russia to the deepest, darkest, China. May they have a long and prosperous future together!, Donald Trump, Truth Social, September 5, 2025. truthsocial.com

[211] The ‘Reverse Kissinger’ That No One foresaw Nixon's Metternich is turning in his grave at the imbeciles undoing his main geopolitical legacy. Sumantra Maitra, The American Conservative, Sep 9, 2025.

[212] IN BRIEF: What is known about drone incident in Poland, Kirill Strelnikov, TASS, Sep 10, 2025. tass.com

[213] America’s allies may soon have to fend for themselves, By Timofey Bordachev, RT, September 17, 2025. rt.com

[214] General Harald Kujat: NATO Provoked Ukraine War, Glenn Diesen, Sep 19, 2025. YouTube.

[215] General Harald Kujat: NATO Provoked Ukraine War, Glenn Diesen, Sep 19, 2025. YouTube.

[216] Michael Hudson: Europe's Stockholm Syndrome, Glenn Diesen, Sep 20, 2025. YouTube.

[217] EUROPE IN CRISIS: Economic Isolation, Political Turmoil to Appease The US | Glenn Diesen, Rachel Blevins, Sep 22, 2025. YouTube.

[218] Douglas Macgregor: "War is Inevitable" Glenn Diesen, Sep 25, 2025. YouTube

[219] Poland's Tusk warns of generational consequences if Ukraine falls, Yahoo News, September 29, 2025.

[220] Behind the illusion of deadlock: what’s really happening in the Ukraine conflict, Vasily Kashin, Voice Media, Oct 8, 2025. www.voicemedia.global

[221] Arnaud Bertrand, October 7, 2025.

[222] The End of Unipolar Power and the Return of Geopolitical Reality, John Mearsheimer, GeoPulse, October 10, 2025.

[223] The Recent Sino-US Dispute Over Taiwan’s Post-WWII Status Is A Sign Of The Times, Andrew Korybko, 11 Oct 25. https://thealtworld.com/andrew_korybko

[224] Alex Jones Warns of the Globalist Death Cult Fueling the Next Civil War and Rise of the Antichrist, Tucker Carlson, Oct 13, 2025.

[225] Future Global Order Pivots on Ukraine Proxy War, Brian Berletic, 21 Oct 25. thealtworld.com

[226] Trump's Russia Policy Descending Into Chaos, Mark Wauck, Meaning in History, Oct 27, 2025,

[227] Alastair Crooke : Netanyahu's War Against Israel, Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom. October 27, 2025.

[228] John Mearsheimer: New Nuclear Arms Race, Pentagon to Resume Testing, Daniel Davis / Deep Dive, Oct 30, 2025. YouTube.

[229] Pentagon chief likens current world situation with 1939, when World War II began, 8 Nov 2025. TASS. tass.com

[230] Feliz Abt, The Pattern That Ends Empires: How Money Dies Before Nations Fall, Forum Geopolitica, 09 Nov 2025. forumgeopolitica.com

[231] Hungary’s USAID Documentaries Aim to Expose Political Interference by “Progressive” NGOs, Rod Lampard, Nov 11, 2025. caldronpool.com

[232] Aearnur, UKRAINE: THE POWER AND THE LIABILITY OF LIES, Nov 15, 2025. aearnur.substack.com

[233] German chancellor calls for EU to become a full-fledged European defence union, Anadolu Agency, November 17, 2025. tribune.com.pk

[234] New Russian Offensive STEAMROLLING Ukraine in Zaporizhia, HistoryLegends, Nov 19, 2025.

[235] 'Settlement' Carnival Reaches Fever Pitch as Antsy Euros Jockey for Relevancy, Simplicius, Nov 25, 2025. simplicius76.substack.com

[236] Andrey Kartapolov says Europeans will have to kneel before Russia if it wins in Ukraine, Russian Media Monitor, Nov 25, 2025. YouTube.

[237] John Mearsheimer (Clip): This Is Not a Proxy War Anymore - The West Has Gone to War Against Russia, Prof. Glenn Diesen Clips, Nov 27, 2025.

[238] Curro Jimenez, Systemic Entropy and Power: Explaining the Breakdown of World Order, nakedcapitalism, November 27, 2025. www.nakedcapitalism.com

[239] National Security Strategy of the United States of America, November 2025. www.whitehouse.gov

[240] Ray McGovern : Can Rubio Be Trusted?, Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom, December 1, 2025.

[241] Shanaka Anslem Perera, December 2, 2025.

[242] Aurelien, Alone With Our Thoughts. Lost in the supermarket of opinions. Trying to Understand the World, Dec 03, 2025. aurelien2022.substack.com

[243] Let's Build a Multipolar World' - Xi & Macron Full Meeting 2025 (Chinese-French Translation), Freelensia, Dec 4, 2025. YouTube.

[244] Trump has shattered the European liberal illusion, By Ladislav Zemánek, 6 Dec, 2025. rt.com

[245] Jack Matlock: NATO Expansion, Coup & Subversion of Ukraine Started the War, Glenn Diesen, December 10, 2025. YouTube.

[246] Politico, Danish intelligence classifies Trump’s America as a security risk, By Antoaneta Roussi, December 11, 2025.

[247] The US is teaching its European allies a harsh lesson in who’s really in charge, 12 Dec, 2025. rt.com

[248] No More Ukraine Proxy War? You're a Traitor! /Glenn Diesen & Lt Col Daniel Davis, Daniel Davis / Deep Dive, Dec 15, 2025.

[249] Yanis Varoufakis | Russia Opens the Odessa Corridor — NATO’s Worst Fear Begins, Yanis Explained, December 15, 2025. YouTube.

[250] What I Learned in 2025 About the Shifting Balance of Power (USA, China, Russia, India, Europe), The Burning Archive, Dec 16, 2025.

[251] Jeffrey Sachs, European Russophobia and Europe’s Rejection of Peace: A Two-Century Failure, December 23, 2025. consortiumnews.com

[252] Scott Ritter: This Is How It All COLLAPSES — Russia’s Role Explained, Dialogue Works, Dec 24, 2025. YouTube.

[253] Yanis Varoufakis | The Petrodollar Just Died—And Banks Are Hiding the Consequences | Yanis explained, Dec 26, 2025. YouTube

[254] The Real Story Behind The Russia–Ukraine War... And What Happens Next, David Stockman, December 27, 2025. www.zerohedge.com

[255] The Separation: Inside the Unraveling U.S.-Ukraine Partnership, By Adam Entous, The New York Times, Dec. 30, 2025.

[256] Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s New Year international press conference, Cabinet Office Of The Prime Minister, 05/01/2026. miniszterelnok.hu

[257] Macron accuses US of 'turning away' from allies, breaking rules, Delphine Touitou, Francesco Fontemaggi and Valerie Leroux, AFP, Jan 8, 2026. www.cbs19news.com

[258] Jake Tapper, X, January 9, 2026.

[259] Trump says US will do something on Greenland 'whether they like it or not', By Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, January 9, 2026. abcnews.go.com

[260] Fareed Zakaria, Trump is teaching the world to fear America, The Washington Post, January 9, 2026.

[261] Pope Leo warns 'war is back in vogue,' hardens stance on abortion, by Justin McLellan, National Catholic Reporter, Jan. 9, 2026. ncronline.org

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(Left) The United State pledge not to move "one inch east" of the Oder-Neisse line when the Soviet Union allowed East Germany to withdraw from the Warsaw Pact and join NATO paving the way for German Reunification. (Right) The Oder-Neisse Line, the line of demarcation between present-day, post-1945 Germany and Poland agreed to by all sides.