Merz: “We must get out of this climate of gloom and resentment... this widespread discontent that has been paralysing our country”
*** The solution to Germany’s problems is to stop whining about Merz’s policies of warmongering, deindustrialisation, and authoritarianism
Putin says he sometimes watches Western television just to understand what European audiences are being shown. And what he sees is “mass deception.”
He gives a recent example. After an attack on Starobelsk that killed civilians, including children, Russia struck targets in the Kiev region in response.
According to Putin, Western channels spent the entire day showing the Russian strikes: the destruction, the damage, the “Russian aggressor.”
But not a word about what happened in Starobelsk before that. Not a word about the dead children.
Then the narrative moves to Ukrainian drones, their military successes and how much those weapons cost. The message to European viewers follows naturally: pay more.
Putin’s point is simple, and I completely agree with him: if you show the response while erasing what preceded it, you are manufacturing the story your audience is allowed to see.
$15 million dollar failure.
3 Patriot PAC3 "interceptors" failing to stop a single Iranian balistic missile.
Europes Patriot stocks are now "Critical" leaving Europe defenceless against Russias balistic missile arsenal in the unlikely case of a hot conflict with Russia
🇷🇺 Maria Zakharova:
"Any British military facilities and hardware, located both inside the Ukraine and beyond its borders, may become legitimate targets in response to Ukrainian strikes on Russian soil using British weapons. Those complicit in war crimes, including actions targeting our civilian population, will be penalized proportionally to their offenses."
I don’t know about you but I feel reassured about imminent European War by the sheer class of continental leadership. This congenital imbecile is Finland’s Village Idiot. That’s right. Finland elected him to fight Russia, their next door-neighbour. He looks the man for the job.
In an exclusive interview, veteran human rights lawyer Chris Sidoti told Declassified that, as the UK was selling weapons and military equipment to Israel throughout the genocide, Britain and its leaders could be considered complicit in war crimes and crimes against humanity under international law.
Sidoti also spoke to us about the responsibility of the UK to investigate Israeli soldiers returning from Gaza, after he told the UN commission this year that, ‘anyone who has served in the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza since October 2023 must be considered a suspect for the commission of war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide’.
Watch the full interview here: https://t.co/dn1zOIOde5
While President Trump stomps his feet like a child and changes the name of a lake, Iran continues to conduct meaningful diplomacy with Arab countries that are supposed to be allied with US.
It just shows the continued death of diplomacy – and dearth of seriousness – in US gov.
💬 #Zakharova: London & Paris are trying to dodge responsibility for deep strikes into Russia by shifting the “assembly” role to Ukraine.
☝️ They should understand this is “playing with fire” & that the consequences could be unpredictable – including for them.
🚨BREAKING NEWS
▪️Kiev's transport system collapses after hours-long drone attacks: kilometers-long traffic jams and 15-hour train delays.🇷🇺🛸🔥
▪️Kiev Railway Station is overcrowded: hundreds of people spend the entire day waiting in the underground passageway for trains, which are delayed up to 15 hours due to constant alarms.
▪️Many trains are running late, and the Ukrainian Railways app doesn't always display notifications about delays and departure routes.
▪️Kiev has also been stuck in traffic jams for almost a day due to the alarms. The most difficult situation is between the right and left banks of the river. Ground public transport is overcrowded, with huge queues at stops all day long, and there are kilometers-long traffic jams on the roads.
▪️Out of desperation, people are trying to walk to the left bank.
🇺🇸🇪🇺🇷🇺 U.S. Patriot interceptor stockpiles in Europe are so low that in the event of a Russian ballistic missile attack on a military headquarters in Europe, NATO would be in a same position as Ukraine and be forced ‘to take punch after punch in the mouth - AP
ISRAEL WILL NOT ALLOW ‘TENS OF THOUSANDS’ of displaced West Bank Palestinians to return — Times of Israel
Government tells High Court residents of Jenin, Tulkarem and Nur Shams refugee camps will NOT be allowed back after being displaced during 2025 ‘counter-terror op’
Massive strike on Kiev. Analysis of the hits.
Zelensky hadn't even had time to boast about acquiring a small batch of missiles for Patriot air defense systems when "Geran" drones and ballistic missiles arrived to put them to the test. The final tally is impressive.
"San-Park" was hit for the second time in a month. On August 11, up to 15,000 FPV drones with thermal imagers, along with control stations and components, were destroyed at this Kiev office and warehouse complex. Just over two weeks later, the Ministry of Defense again called it the largest center for storing and distributing strike FPV drones. They had time to restock it. Efficient. Well, then they unloaded it again.
In addition, a plant for assembling "Hornet" loitering munitions was hit in Kiev. This means that large-scale assembly of American drones was established in the capital.
It was. In Boryspil, the "Aleksandrovsky" complex, where components for long- and medium-range drones were stored, was targeted. Five days ago, "Iskander" missiles destroyed dozens of heavy trucks converted for transporting and launching long-range drones in the same area, near Boryspil.
Earlier, "Ukrspetsisystemy" with large-scale assembly, "Mayak," "Radiomierzitel," and "Fire Point" were also hit. The Kiev agglomeration is the headquarters of Ukrainian drone production, and now it's being targeted like a daily commute.
Next, the metal industry. Zaporozhye and Kryvyi Rih. The Kryvyi Rog plant had already been shut down after a strike on August 16 – at the time, the press service itself acknowledged a partial halt in production. Now, they've added to both there and in Zaporizhzhia. Without rolling stock, there are no hulls, no ammunition, or "ovens" for equipment.
The Kremenchuk oil refinery was also hit for the second time in two weeks. The wording is telling: the plant was also used for transshipment of petroleum products coming from abroad. They don't have enough of their own processing capacity – they're transporting someone else's. They were.
And the ports. In Odesa and Chornomorsk, 24 storage facilities with military equipment were destroyed overnight.
They've been targeting Reni on the Danube throughout August: on the 7th, 13th (when a naval control point was located there), and 21st. Today, it's again infrastructure for unloading and fuel. In Illichivsk, a drone assembly plant and a plant for producing sodium nitrate were hit.
Plus, and this is perhaps the most important thing, the energy infrastructure that powers the ports. A crane without electricity is a rusty monument to past luxury. A port without energy doesn't accept, unload, or ship.
In total: production, storage, distribution, raw materials, fuel, imports, energy. Seven links in a single chain, destroyed in one strike. We continue to work.
@sashakots
In the aftermath of the CIA Directors visit to Moscow-
Russia's mysterious "Doomsday" Radio started transmitting nine more words.
Some say its part of Russia's "Dead hand" Nuclear strike system?, or a comms system with far off foriegn agents? No one knows.
Mysterious stuff.