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Finian Cunningham Author, Journalist & Commentator & Former editor and writer for major news media organizations.
I have written extensively on international affairs, with articles published in several languages.
Book: Killing Democracy
https://t.co/Sc2hpno8zk
Recent Interviews on YouTube: https://t.co/kE1uqXnD84
Recent Articles: 1. Strategic Culture Foundation Column
https://t.co/m2pTu5Qgvg
2. SCF Weekly Editorials Award: https://t.co/xTOmcCYRuM
Serena Shim Award for Integrity in Journalism
🔻 An enraged mob lynched officers of the state security service, throwing them out of windows and committing horrific acts of violence against them.
🔻 Comrades in the town of Nyíregyháza remembered a Hungarian gardener who came in the spring to plant flowers. During the uprising, a group of "freedom fighters" hung this man on a roadside pole, but his life was saved by Soviet soldiers who happened to be passing by. Since then, the Hungarian gardener has regularly come to our special forces unit – working for free as a sign of gratitude.
🔻 Soviet troops, deployed in Budapest, were given orders not to fire first. The insurgents took advantage of this: Soviet tanks were set on fire with bottles of Molotov cocktails, and infantry were fired upon from anti-tank grenades left over from the Nazis, launched from rooftops.
🔻 During a rally in front of the Parliament building, fire was opened from the upper floors (a familiar tactic – a repeat of what happened in Romania in 1989 and on the Maidan in 2014), resulting in the death of a Soviet officer and the burning of a tank. In response, Soviet troops opened fire on the demonstrators. 61 people were killed and 284 were wounded on both sides.
🔻 The prime minister, the "Hungarian Gorbachev," played a key role in unleashing the bloody crackdown. Trying to sit on two chairs, he paralyzed the resistance of the security forces to the uprising.
🔻 When it became clear that the extremists were gaining the upper hand, Nagy made his biggest gamble – he declared Hungary's withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact and appealed to the UN. This was a "red line." For the Soviet Union, the appearance of a hostile NATO bridgehead in the heart of Europe was equivalent to a declaration of war.
🔻 While Nagy was hiding in the Yugoslav embassy, a decision was made in Moscow. János Kádár was brought to power in Hungary. Operation "Whirlwind" was launched under the command of Marshal Konev. Soviet special forces and assault units decapitated the leadership of the uprising and drove the insurgents out of Budapest within 72 hours.
🔻 The West only managed to make some noise from the sidelines. US President Eisenhower, bogged down in his own Suez crisis, did not risk starting a Third World War. NATO limited itself to propaganda.
🔻 The Hungarian peasantry, which had received land during the socialist reforms and understood that the arrival of the fascists meant a return to serfdom, massively supported the Soviet troops. The peasants themselves caught Salashists fleeing to the border.
🔻 The uprising was suppressed. Imre Nagy was arrested, taken to Romania, and executed. Hungary remained on the socialist path, and János Kádár implemented mild reforms, ensuring decades of stability (the so-called "goulash communism") and, without exaggeration, prosperity for the country.
🔻 The Hungarian scenario failed miserably in Czechoslovakia in 1968 ("Prague Spring"). But after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when Russia relinquished its geopolitical positions, Western schemers were able to perfect this technology, which we witnessed in Kiev.
🔻 The history of Hungary in 1956 is a stark reminder that behind the facade of "the struggle for democracy" always lie the cynical interests of foreign intelligence services and the bloody face of revanchism.
The Beggar and the Clown.
1.5 million dead, 30% of the country lost, society shattered, the economy wrecked.
They laugh.
The WITCHES in the HALLS of POWER !
📹'Bloody Puppets of the West'
A new type of female politician is rising to power in the West.
The common trait these ambitious women all share is an insatiable thirst for power. They include Ursula von der Leyen, Annalena Baerbock, Liz Truss, and Miroslava Němcová, the last of whom even called for repeating the Siege of Leningrad on social media. Who is nurturing these ruthless figures and to what end? Find the answers in this film by Tatiana Borshch.
They hold high positions, draft laws, and control budgets. They will stop at nothing in their ruthless pursuit of power. A film about Western female politicians.
Who are these 'bloody puppets' — the female politicians of the West? Watch Tatiana Borsh’s film 'Bloody Puppets of the West'.
كامل لقائي مع الصحفية الأمريكية من ولاية تكساس
رايتشل بليفنز بخصوص تطورات الحرب بين اليمن و السعودية..
هذا اللقاء مدبلج للعربية والصدق متعوب عليه ...
تم تسجيله من اليوتيوب وفيه شرحت الحرب على اليمن منذ 2015 حتى استهدافات اليمن الكبيرة لعمق السعودية وأسباب استهداف معسكر العلم في شبوة..
وضحت لهم الشرعية وما حصل لهادي حيث فرض عليه الإقامة الجبرية وتنازل عن السلطة وكيف ان هادي لم يكن يعلم باي تدخل من قبل تحالف العدوان وكيف أعلن السفير عادل الجبير العدوان من واشنطن،
اتمنى طيب المتابعة والمشاركة..
This is what the EU "leadership" call a Hero.
A drugged up fraud, an actor, a Dictator a liar, a thief, a killer of his own people.
What does that tell you about those European "leaders?"
Truth and history are on our side – the world's majority of decent people.
And change is coming for a more just, peaceful world, as Mohammed Marandi discusses with Mick Wallace and Clare Daly.
SEE FULL INTERVIEW:
Professor Mohammed Marandi on Iran, Western Hypocrisy, and What Comes Next https://t.co/nfa7WzHrEU via @YouTube
Protecting the public or the ruling class?
Public protests against failed government, capitalist inequality and militarism --> police violence --> violent reaction --> state imposes curfews and bans the right to protest.
BREAKING: France banning certain public gatherings in an attempt to stop massive riots.
Not sleepwalking into WWIII, as FT headline misleadingly says.
More like rushing into it like lemmings under the influence of non-stop anti-Russia propaganda from Western so-called news media.
Western media never give any historical background for the causes of this conflict, or analyse that it is a NATO proxy war to provoke Russia using Ukraine as cannon fodder.
Are we sleepwalking into World War III? https://t.co/GKTGEeI13e
Are we sleepwalking into World War III? https://t.co/GKTGEeI13e
🚨When They Blame Putin for Starting the War, Show Them This.
🚨How the War Started 2014 in Mariupol...
🚨May 9, 2014 Several people are reported to have died in some of the worst clashes yet between Ukrainian forces and pro-russian in the eastern city of Mariupol.
🚨The Ukrainian leadership decided that they could simply kill or intimidate everyone dissatisfied with the illegal change of power.
And the war began.
The entire "civilized world" was silent even then - it was also silent for all eight years of the destruction of the free Donbass.
Today’s war cannot be understood without first understanding the U.S. government’s role in Ukraine's Maidan.
EUROCLEAR : The Canary in the Coal Mine of Europe
If Russia Reclaims Frozen Assets Through the Courts, Euroclear’s Fiduciary Model Faces Systemic Shock
By @SMO_VZ
A recent Financial Times analysis by Martin Sandbu, @MESandbu , has drawn attention for its relatively sanguine assessment of Euroclear’s exposure to roughly €230–300 billion in immobilised Russian central-bank assets. Sandbu argues that the Belgian central securities depository is “too big to destabilise” and that Belgium itself is too small to absorb the fiscal fallout if Moscow eventually succeeds in recovering the funds—an outcome he treats as possible but manageable.
What the piece underplays, according to specialists familiar with the legal architecture of the European clearing system, is the deeper structural risk: a successful Russian claim pursued through both international and domestic courts would not merely create a contingent liability for Belgium; it would call into question the security of the far larger stock of third-party assets that Euroclear holds as fiduciary.
Euroclear, like its Luxembourg counterpart Clearstream, operates under a tightly constrained statutory mandate. It is licensed as a bank, yet its core function, defined in Belgian legislation and its own charter, is that of a fiduciary or trustee.
Customer securities and cash are not treated as assets of the depository; legal title remains with the depositors. Even in the event of Euroclear’s insolvency, those assets would fall outside the insolvency estate and would be available for return to their owners. The framework was deliberately designed to insulate the global securities market from the commercial risks that ordinary banks are permitted to take. Because the institution sits at the centre of European and international settlement, it is prohibited from assuming the very exposures that normal commercial banks routinely accept.
The immobilisation of Russian central-bank reserves has tested that architecture. Western governments and the European Union have treated the assets as available for political use—initially through a freeze, later through proposals for windfall profits or outright transfer to Ukraine. From the Russian perspective, these steps constitute an expropriation without due process or compensation, a breach of the principles of sovereign immunity and private-property protection that underwrite cross-border securities markets.
Moscow has already signalled its intention to contest the measures in competent jurisdictions. If Russian authorities obtain favourable judgments in international arbitration or in Belgian or other European courts, which according to most experts in this field, will be succesful, thenEuroclear would face enforceable claims for restitution of the principal, accrued interest, and potentially damages, whixh today may constitute an amount of principal plus 40 to 70% , enough to bankrupt Euroclear, and destabilise the already weakened European banking system.
The scale of the exposure matters less than the precedent. Euroclear’s total assets under custody are measured in the tens of trillions of euros—figures in the region of €40 trillion or more have been cited in market commentary.
Those holdings include sovereign bonds, corporate securities, and collateral belonging to central banks, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, and private institutions worldwide. If courts were to rule that a politically motivated freeze or transfer of one state’s assets can be reversed, depositors elsewhere would have grounds to question whether their own holdings remain fully insulated from similar future decisions.
The perception that “securities” are no longer secure because a political authority can recharacterise them as available for confiscation would be difficult to contain.
Suggestions that the European Central Bank could compel Euroclear to “split off the risky part of its balance sheet into a separate entity” do not resolve the problem; they merely relocate it.
Because the Russian assets are not Euroclear’s own assets in the first place, any such separation would still amount to a forced reallocation of third-party property. It would also require legislative or regulatory changes that further erode the statutory protections written into Belgian law precisely to prevent the depository from taking commercial risk.
Market participants who rely on the clean separation between fiduciary assets and the depository’s own balance sheet would interpret the manoeuvre as confirmation that the separation can be overridden when political priorities demand it.
The banking and securities community would not wait for final appellate judgments before reacting. Once credible legal proceedings are under way and preliminary injunctions or attachment orders become possible, counterparties could begin to demand higher haircuts, additional collateral, or outright withdrawal of positions settled through Euroclear.
Liquidity in euro-denominated securities could thin; funding spreads for European banks that rely on the system for collateral management could widen. Because Euroclear and Clearstream are systemically important financial market infrastructures, any sustained loss of confidence would transmit rapidly into the broader clearing and settlement ecosystem. The very concentration that makes the institutions “too big to fail” in normal times would amplify the panic once the legal premise of their operations is contested.
Russia’s position, framed in legal rather than purely political terms, is that the assets remain the property of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation and must be returned once hostilities end or earlier if courts so order. Western officials have repeatedly asserted that the measures are temporary and reversible, yet the practical effect of prolonged immobilisation, coupled with proposals for permanent transfer, has been to treat the reserves as a de facto source of financing.
A judicial finding that this treatment violates applicable property and immunity rules would not be an isolated victory for Moscow; it would reaffirm that the legal architecture of international securities markets cannot be subordinated to wartime expediency without systemic consequence.
Specialists who helped design the depositor-protection regimes for Euroclear and Clearstream have noted that those regimes were intended to survive precisely the kind of political pressure now being applied. Whether they will continue to do so depends less on the size of any single state’s reserves than on the willingness of courts and regulators to uphold the distinction between fiduciary custody and sovereign discretion.
If that distinction collapses under the weight of claims that Russia is entitled to pursue, the resulting uncertainty would not be confined to one set of frozen assets. It would raise the cost of holding securities inside the European clearing system and, by extension, inside any jurisdiction whose authorities have asserted a comparable right to reallocate foreign central-bank property. In that scenario the immediate fiscal exposure of Belgium would be only the most visible symptom of a wider loss of confidence in the security of cross-border holdings.
A holder of $40 Trillions of other people's securities is very very quiet on a subject matter that according to many in the industry, is a day of reckoning if Russia calls its bluff.
Russia has not played this hand yet, and why not? What are they waiting for?
Do they know something that the Euroclear Executives dont know, and if they do, why are the alarm bells not ringing in Brussels?
Even the CEO of the depository that holds the assets has warned that the proposed course looks like confiscation, creates an unmanageable imbalance, and risks destabilising the system.
If Russia continues to press those claims through the courts and obtains enforceable relief, the resulting uncertainty will not be limited to one set of frozen reserves. It will raise the cost of holding securities inside the European clearing architecture and signal to the wider banking community that property rights in the system are contingent on political calculation.
That is the pathway to systemic panic.
Key statements by Euroclear CEO Valérie Urbain
Belgian radio / VRT, 5 December 2025: proposal “is not realistic,” could “destabilise the international financial system,” creates “a very large imbalance,” may amount to “confiscation”; better used in peace talks.
https://t.co/dV1QcrsbAo
https://t.co/hYUk5Ktiy3
https://t.co/sAVsOZAk7R
Corriere della Sera interview, 10 December 2025: “looks a lot like confiscation,” violates sovereign immunity, high likelihood of being interpreted as confiscation, risk of default if unable to reimburse Russia.
https://t.co/xfq9jr45Fv
Le Monde (November 2025):
Ready to challenge EU orders in court; anything resembling confiscation is illegal under the international law of sovereign assets; credibility and trust are essential for market stability.
(coverage via TASS summary and Le Monde reporting)
Key references:
Belgian statements
Bart De Wever on legal and systemic risks (Reuters, August 2025): https://t.co/H2gn76DvGT
De Wever on “theft” and the “fundamentally wrong” plan (Le Monde):
https://t.co/85j7sEAt8M
De Wever on the “goose that lays the golden eggs” (POLITICO):
https://t.co/qu8DRyMLlk
De Wever conditions ahead of summit (EUobserver):
https://t.co/ER9osprhKS
Earlier Belgian position under Alexander De Croo:
https://t.co/SA56SwLI7O
EU leaders’ statements:
Ursula von der Leyen on reserving the right to use immobilised Russian assets and keeping the reparations-loan proposal on the table (Ukrainska Pravda / European Pravda, January 2026, reflecting December 2025 European Council outcome):
https://t.co/jBAzUmiBX9
Von der Leyen on using proceeds from immobilised assets and the structure of the reparations loan (Interfax coverage of post-summit remarks, December 2025):
https://t.co/i8bxGWuln1
Von der Leyen post-summit statement reserving the right to use cash balances (X, 19 December 2025):
https://t.co/nvNl74nAnN
von der Leyen on directing proceeds of immobilised assets to Ukraine (X, August 2026):
https://t.co/5DOVQESIId
Background on von der Leyen and Merz pushing the asset-backed plan, and the eventual fallback to joint borrowing (Guardian, December 2025):
https://t.co/gyKrjnzQjI
EU leaders’ private insistence on controlling the assets (transcript reporting, Kiev Independent / Yahoo, December 2025):
https://t.co/clq6mgmYZg
Related
Moscow court ruling against Euroclear (May 2026): https://t.co/Tc4QrNRiXR
@21WIRE EUROPE is buying as much Energy off Russia as it can....behind the Curtains....
Fuelling Moscow’s war machine? U.S. and Europe are buying record levels of Russian energy exports
October 16, 2026
The war in Ukraine has always been about fomenting a proxy war to defeat Russia.
https://strategic-culture. su/news/2026/10/16/fuelling-moscows-war-machine-u-s-and-europe-are-buying-record-levels-of-russian-energy-exports/
The contradictions are absurd but instructive of the criminal proxy war that the U.S. and European powers have perpetrated against Russia under the guise of “defending Ukraine”.
Western sanctions on Russia – the most heavily sanctioned nation on Earth – were meant to supposedly punish Moscow for its alleged unprovoked aggression against Ukraine.
The United States recently signed into law a “sanctions bill from hell” in honor of the late war hawk Senator Lindsey Graham, aimed at crushing the Russian economy, principally by shutting down its energy exports.
Likewise, the European Union has implemented more than 20 rounds of sanctions imposed on Russia over the past four years, again purportedly to block Russian exports of oil and gas. The EU has vowed to terminate all Russian energy imports by the end of this year.
The official rationale out of Washington and European capitals is to exact retribution on Russia for its alleged invasion and violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty. Western embargoes on Russia’s economy were immediately announced after Moscow launched its Special Military Operation in February 2022. (The real background to the SMO – unreported by Western media – was the NATO-backed coup in Kiev in 2014, and the arming of NeoNazis to conduct a proxy war against Russia.)
The U.S. and European Union, as well as Britain of course, presented the attempted economic blockade of Russia as a demonstration of the West enforcing international law and supporting Ukraine. The latter is portrayed in Western media as a fair maiden of democracy assailed by a drooling Russian tyrant.
In a nutshell, the sanctions are sold to the Western public as a plausible way of neutralizing “Russia’s war machine.” If Moscow’s oil and gas exports could be cut off, then, the dubious logic goes, Russia would not be able to continue its war effort in Ukraine.
However, laughably, the supposedly noble Western rationale is in tatters this week after the U.S. Treasury lifted sanctions off Russian diesel exports for the next six months in order to boost global oil supplies and curb soaring energy prices.
Another shattering blow to the facade of Western “principles” was the disclosure by Russia’s energy minister, Alexander Novak, that the European Union has continued to buy Russian energy exports at nearly pre-war levels. (Cue Western media silence on that!)
Since 2022, the EU has bought a total of $320 billion worth of Russian hydrocarbons. To put the expenditure in perspective, that far exceeds what the European governments have donated to Ukraine, some $226 bn, according to EU data.
https://t.co/ueQPvtp21w
How’s that for a contradiction? The European governments are throwing hundreds of billions of taxpayers’ money at Ukraine supposedly to defend itself against Russia, yet these same governments are giving Russia much, much more by buying its energy resources. In other words, to use their own rhetoric, Brussels and other European capitals are “fuelling the Russian war machine.”
As for the United States, it is equally duplicitous. The Americans blew up the Nord Stream pipeline in 2022 so that Europe would not be at the mercy of Russian oil dependency. Washington also imposed sanctions on Russian energy while increasing its more expensive gas exports to Europe. Yet last Friday, October 9, President Donald Trump announced, to the dismay and alarm of the Europeans and Ukraine, that he had made a deal with Vladimir Putin to release 3.5 million tonnes of Russian diesel onto the world market to ease pressure on crippling pump prices.
Whatever happened to American laws against “trading with the enemy”?
Of course, Trump is desperate for relief over record-high fuel prices as a result of his criminal aggression against Iran and Iran’s closure of the Persian Gulf oil route in retaliation. With the mid-term Congressional elections only three weeks away, Trump is seeking to assuage angry American consumers and spare his Republican Party from an electoral drubbing that will tarnish his presidency.
Out of sheer expedience, Trump wants Russian diesel exports to save his political neck. Some observers may question whether Moscow should oblige Trump considering that Washington is arming the NeoNazi Kiev regime with missiles and intelligence. Perhaps the Kremlin is calculating that Trump could finally pull off a peace deal in Ukraine.
Another smart move by Moscow, perhaps, is that the diesel deal with Trump has managed to unleash a storm of recriminations from Europe and Ukraine, which is severely undermining the transatlantic axis. Is this political judo by Putin?
The European NATO partners and the Kiev puppet president Vladimir Zelensky reacted with unprecedented insults and defiance of Trump. They accused the American leader of treachery and of siding with Russia. Within Washington, Trump has also been lambasted for “betrayal”.
Trump and his aides hit back furiously, dismissing the Europeans as “hypocrites” over their own record purchases of Russian energy exports. Trump even called for Zelensky to be replaced by someone who he can work with.
For his part, Zelensky doubled down with truculence, badmouthing Trump for being “weak” and accusing him of putting Ukrainian lives at risk. He refused to stop Ukrainian air strikes on Russia’s oil refineries, as requested by the White House. And the little money-grabbing, narco-Führer also attempted blackmail by suggesting to Trump that he would halt air attacks on Russian energy infrastructure “if” the Pentagon supplied more Patriot missiles.
Trump’s anger has exploded over Zelensky and his European patrons. He sees their obstruction of his diesel deal with Russia as not only hypocritical but a political attack on his presidency ahead of the crucial November polls.
The debacle is a rich farce. American and European posturing is seen for what it is, without any principle or genuine motives. It is a plague on all their houses.
Both the U.S. and its European partners are buying Russian energy like never before to sustain their struggling economies. The sanctions they imposed on Russia never had anything to do with “upholding international law” or “defending Ukraine”.
Using their own disingenuous logic, the NATO nations are fuelling the Russian war machine with their continuing business-as-usual purchase of Russia’s oil and gas.
That contradiction, in turn, exposes the fraud of the war in Ukraine. It was never about defending democratic Ukraine – a corrupt NeoNazi dictatorship – or European security from Russian “threat”.
The whole murderous episode has always been about fomenting a proxy war to defeat Russia. That covert policy is a gargantuan crime of aggression that has cost millions of lives and bankrupted Western societies. What’s more, it is an utterly failed policy which Western governments are covering up to avoid accountability. The destruction and deception go hand in hand.
What is all the more damning is that this travesty could have been easily exposed years ago if the Western news media had actually reported on facts instead of being the propaganda service they so evidently are to enable criminal aggression by their imperialist masters.
Scratch a Liberal, find a fascist.
🇺🇸🇮🇱⚔️🇵🇸🧵 ZOHRAN MAMDANI — THE LEFT-WING OF AMERICAN IMPERIALISM
The betrayal of Zohran Mamdani should come as a shock to absolutely no one. Joseph Stalin once correctly said that social democracy is the moderate wing of fascism and the Democratic Socialists of America is a prime example of this reality. The social democrats of this country have always been the left-wing of American fascism and imperial finance capital.
The writing was on the wall from the moment Mamdani entered the Democratic primaries. During his campaign, he lobbied aggressively for endorsements from JPMorgan and received them from the Soros family, Barack Obama and Iraq War architect Bill Kristol. He did propaganda for US regime change efforts in Cuba and Venezuela, while even promising to arrest Vladimir Putin on the fabricated ICC charges which stemmed from a NATO-funded Yale report that debunked its own allegations.
It’s no wonder he won the support of the most prominent neocon in modern history. And immediately after winning the election, he also gained Donald Trump’s approval. From there, the walking back of his promise to arrest Netanyahu, the refusal to disband the Strategic Response Group, and reappointing Jessica Tisch as the NYPD Commissioner became inevitable.
And make no mistake. Zohran Mamdani had the legal authority to arrest Netanyahu under the War Crimes Act and the Genocide Accountability Act due to Israel’s crimes in Gaza as well as the murder of American citizens. Under Title 18 US Code 3041, the mayor has the authority to arrest an individual for such offenses with no immunity exception for heads of state.
However, there were two reasons in particular why Mamdani chose not to arrest Netanyahu. Firstly, even if it didn’t result in a criminal prosecution, it would’ve exposed the Democrats and Republicans as a UniParty because I can guarantee that every member of Congress, including those on the Progressive Caucus, would have lobbied for his release. And secondly, Mamdani’s administration, as well as the DSA in general, has become completely captured by the ADL and the American Jewish Committee, carrying on the legacy of DSA’s foundations in Labor Zionism.
This new “Strategy to Combat Antisemitism” is merely an extension of the police state and a continuation of the crackdown on free speech that defined Eric Adams’ tenure. Mamdani has now essentially adopted the IHRA definition of antisemitism which classifies all criticism of Israel as anti-Jewish hatred and business advisory council Mamdani formed has partnered with NYPD and specifically instructed them that the keffiyeh and watermelon are “antisemitic symbols.”
That has now translated into official policy meant to silence and protect any kind of criticism of Israel in the form of Mamdani’s “Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.” Much like the European Union, Mamdani is weaponizing the IHRA definition, as well as the hoax assertion that “antisemitism is on the rise” in order to justify mass surveillance and censorship.
He is even partnering with Rebecca Weiner, NYPD’s Counterterrorism Bureau chief who led the espionage operations and violent crackdown on Pro-Palestine protestors at Columbia University in 2024. She also oversees the Counterterrorism Bureau’s liaison offices in Tel Aviv where she receives daily updates from Israel, and leads the human terrain mapping of NYC residence, described by the Associated Press as a CIA, Mossad, and NYPD guided spy program on New Yorkers.
Worst of all, when announcing the Strategy to Combat Antisemitsm, Mamdani invoked the Talmud, the most demonic book ever written since the beginning of human history. The book was essentially a reaction to Jesus Christ’s teachings and formally declares that all non-Jews are slaves and that Jews reserve the right to rape and murder non-Jewish women and children at will, a practice that Israel and its supporters have committed themselves to ever since 1948.
Fuelling Moscow’s war machine? U.S. and Europe are buying record levels of Russian energy exports
October 16, 2026
The war in Ukraine has always been about fomenting a proxy war to defeat Russia.
https://strategic-culture. su/news/2026/10/16/fuelling-moscows-war-machine-u-s-and-europe-are-buying-record-levels-of-russian-energy-exports/
The contradictions are absurd but instructive of the criminal proxy war that the U.S. and European powers have perpetrated against Russia under the guise of “defending Ukraine”.
Western sanctions on Russia – the most heavily sanctioned nation on Earth – were meant to supposedly punish Moscow for its alleged unprovoked aggression against Ukraine.
The United States recently signed into law a “sanctions bill from hell” in honor of the late war hawk Senator Lindsey Graham, aimed at crushing the Russian economy, principally by shutting down its energy exports.
Likewise, the European Union has implemented more than 20 rounds of sanctions imposed on Russia over the past four years, again purportedly to block Russian exports of oil and gas. The EU has vowed to terminate all Russian energy imports by the end of this year.
The official rationale out of Washington and European capitals is to exact retribution on Russia for its alleged invasion and violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty. Western embargoes on Russia’s economy were immediately announced after Moscow launched its Special Military Operation in February 2022. (The real background to the SMO – unreported by Western media – was the NATO-backed coup in Kiev in 2014, and the arming of NeoNazis to conduct a proxy war against Russia.)
The U.S. and European Union, as well as Britain of course, presented the attempted economic blockade of Russia as a demonstration of the West enforcing international law and supporting Ukraine. The latter is portrayed in Western media as a fair maiden of democracy assailed by a drooling Russian tyrant.
In a nutshell, the sanctions are sold to the Western public as a plausible way of neutralizing “Russia’s war machine.” If Moscow’s oil and gas exports could be cut off, then, the dubious logic goes, Russia would not be able to continue its war effort in Ukraine.
However, laughably, the supposedly noble Western rationale is in tatters this week after the U.S. Treasury lifted sanctions off Russian diesel exports for the next six months in order to boost global oil supplies and curb soaring energy prices.
Another shattering blow to the facade of Western “principles” was the disclosure by Russia’s energy minister, Alexander Novak, that the European Union has continued to buy Russian energy exports at nearly pre-war levels. (Cue Western media silence on that!)
Since 2022, the EU has bought a total of $320 billion worth of Russian hydrocarbons. To put the expenditure in perspective, that far exceeds what the European governments have donated to Ukraine, some $226 bn, according to EU data.
https://t.co/ueQPvtp21w
How’s that for a contradiction? The European governments are throwing hundreds of billions of taxpayers’ money at Ukraine supposedly to defend itself against Russia, yet these same governments are giving Russia much, much more by buying its energy resources. In other words, to use their own rhetoric, Brussels and other European capitals are “fuelling the Russian war machine.”
As for the United States, it is equally duplicitous. The Americans blew up the Nord Stream pipeline in 2022 so that Europe would not be at the mercy of Russian oil dependency. Washington also imposed sanctions on Russian energy while increasing its more expensive gas exports to Europe. Yet last Friday, October 9, President Donald Trump announced, to the dismay and alarm of the Europeans and Ukraine, that he had made a deal with Vladimir Putin to release 3.5 million tonnes of Russian diesel onto the world market to ease pressure on crippling pump prices.
Whatever happened to American laws against “trading with the enemy”?
Of course, Trump is desperate for relief over record-high fuel prices as a result of his criminal aggression against Iran and Iran’s closure of the Persian Gulf oil route in retaliation. With the mid-term Congressional elections only three weeks away, Trump is seeking to assuage angry American consumers and spare his Republican Party from an electoral drubbing that will tarnish his presidency.
Out of sheer expedience, Trump wants Russian diesel exports to save his political neck. Some observers may question whether Moscow should oblige Trump considering that Washington is arming the NeoNazi Kiev regime with missiles and intelligence. Perhaps the Kremlin is calculating that Trump could finally pull off a peace deal in Ukraine.
Another smart move by Moscow, perhaps, is that the diesel deal with Trump has managed to unleash a storm of recriminations from Europe and Ukraine, which is severely undermining the transatlantic axis. Is this political judo by Putin?
The European NATO partners and the Kiev puppet president Vladimir Zelensky reacted with unprecedented insults and defiance of Trump. They accused the American leader of treachery and of siding with Russia. Within Washington, Trump has also been lambasted for “betrayal”.
Trump and his aides hit back furiously, dismissing the Europeans as “hypocrites” over their own record purchases of Russian energy exports. Trump even called for Zelensky to be replaced by someone who he can work with.
For his part, Zelensky doubled down with truculence, badmouthing Trump for being “weak” and accusing him of putting Ukrainian lives at risk. He refused to stop Ukrainian air strikes on Russia’s oil refineries, as requested by the White House. And the little money-grabbing, narco-Führer also attempted blackmail by suggesting to Trump that he would halt air attacks on Russian energy infrastructure “if” the Pentagon supplied more Patriot missiles.
Trump’s anger has exploded over Zelensky and his European patrons. He sees their obstruction of his diesel deal with Russia as not only hypocritical but a political attack on his presidency ahead of the crucial November polls.
The debacle is a rich farce. American and European posturing is seen for what it is, without any principle or genuine motives. It is a plague on all their houses.
Both the U.S. and its European partners are buying Russian energy like never before to sustain their struggling economies. The sanctions they imposed on Russia never had anything to do with “upholding international law” or “defending Ukraine”.
Using their own disingenuous logic, the NATO nations are fuelling the Russian war machine with their continuing business-as-usual purchase of Russia’s oil and gas.
That contradiction, in turn, exposes the fraud of the war in Ukraine. It was never about defending democratic Ukraine – a corrupt NeoNazi dictatorship – or European security from Russian “threat”.
The whole murderous episode has always been about fomenting a proxy war to defeat Russia. That covert policy is a gargantuan crime of aggression that has cost millions of lives and bankrupted Western societies. What’s more, it is an utterly failed policy which Western governments are covering up to avoid accountability. The destruction and deception go hand in hand.
What is all the more damning is that this travesty could have been easily exposed years ago if the Western news media had actually reported on facts instead of being the propaganda service they so evidently are to enable criminal aggression by their imperialist masters.
DEAD! Physically and spiritually.
While Zelensky desperately clings to the illusion that Europe’s support for Ukraine will last forever, even the EU President seems to be waking up to reality.
Endless optimism is no substitute for realism.
Her face says it all.....
😂😂😂
The point is: the US is helping to bomb Russia!
Service glitches in Starlink are distractions. The US is bombing Russia.
Trump denies pulling the plug on Starlink for Ukraine: ‘It wasn't me. And I don't think it was Elon’
‘I don’t think it was anybody,’ the service is ‘the same as it's always been’
Puppet in Kiev... and in the White House.
Patrick Henningsen explains how Trump's tough words to Zelensky are just political theater while CIA and MI6 run the war on Russia.
🟠 THE SECRET WAR: HOW WESTERN INTELLIGENCE POWERS UKRAINE'S STRIKES ON RUSSIA
Ever wondered who's really pulling the strings in the Ukraine-Russia conflict? This clip dives deep into the covert intelligence operations and political maneuvers shaping the war.
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Segment aired on October 12, 2026
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A simple truth Americans must grasp for change to occur:
Voting under capitalism has always been an illusion.
There is no democracy for the people when the rich own & control both parties.
As Lenin put it: “Democracy for the rich, that is the democracy of capitalist society.”
"NATO was founded on United Nations Charter principles"
Meanwhile,Adolf Heusinger:
1944: Hitler's Chief of Staff
1961 : Chairman of NATO
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