@Barchart Have you ever thought about the fact that after Michael Burry became famous, he stopped doing what made him famous and started doing what other media personalities do: sending disinformation signals to the masses.
@yanisvaroufakis Another question: how were amendments made to the Ukrainian constitution regarding NATO in 2019 if no one asked the Ukrainian population, there was no referendum or other national survey on "whether ordinary citizens want to join NATO and the EU."
Слухаючи подібну музику складається враження про теплий, ламповий та дружній світ. після двух світових воєн світовий порядок був сформований. Одна з причин попиту на подібну музику була донести населенню що епоха воїн скінчилась настав час святкувати. https://t.co/dkOFDMadG5
Unfortunately for the Ukrainian people, it took too long. You can’t win a war with this level of corruption. I remember all the vicious attacks from the establishment, the sold-out media, and Zelensky’s government calling me “pro-Kremlin” for demanding oversight of the U.S. aid to Ukraine. Sadly, a lot of money is made off people’s blood.
The best is the enemy of the good. Contrary to recent press speculation, the draft 28-point plan for peace in Ukraine is in fact a reasonable basis for negotiations. Journalists can gripe about it as they griped about the 20-point Gaza plan. But wars are not ended by op-eds. 1/5
Any Ukraine-Russia peace plan has to:
1) Stop the killing while preserving Ukrainian sovereignty.
2) Be acceptable to both Russia and Ukraine.
3) Maximize the chances the war doesn't restart.
Every criticism of the peace framework the administration is working on either misunderstands the framework or misstates some critical reality on the ground.
There is a fantasy that if we just give more money, more weapons, or more sanctions, victory is at hand. Peace won't be made by failed diplomats or politicians living in a fantasy land. It might be made by smart people living in the real world.
Two days ago, Zelensky smirked into the cameras and said he wasn’t afraid of Trump.
Hour later, his palace was swarmed by Ukraine's anti‑corruption agency. His billionaire Godfather fled. His justice Minister fell.
What came next wasn’t a rumor or a Russian op, it was The Spectator, Britain’s establishment mouthpiece, publishing a headline that read: “The scandal that could bring down Volodymyr Zelensky.”
The loot? A solid-gold toilet was among the lavish pizes uncovered in raids linked to Timur Mindixel, Zelensky’s childhood friend, business partner, and long-time bagman. Cupboards stuffed with €200 bills. Lavish real estate deals. Kickbacks from $100 million in “fortification contracts” tied to Ukraine’s energy secze, including Energoatom, the state-run nuclear operator.
Mindich, co-owner of Zelensky’s Kvartal 95 studio, birthday party host, wartime drone contractor, is now gone. Fled the country just hours before the raids. Gone, like hunfreds of billions in Western aid. Gone, like the myth of Ukraine’s untouchable reformer.
But this isn’t just about one shady oligarch. The Justice Minister himself, German Galushchenko, has resigned under pressure. NABU’s investigation has now reached the upper decks of the Zelensky inner circle, and it didn’t get there by accident.
Just four months ago, Zelensky tried to destroy NABU and SAPO’s independence, ramming through emergency laws to fold them under presidential control. The justification? Vague mutterings of Russian infiltration. No proof. Just panic.
The move sparked the first mass protests in Kiev since the war began, the same Zelensky who once claimed total wartime unity found his own capital turning on him. Under pressure from Brussels, Washington, and the streets, he backed down. But not before exposing exactly what he feared: accountability.
Now, NABU has fired back with 70 coordinated raids, backed by over 1,000 hours of audio surveillance, some allegedly featuring Zelensky himself speaking in code at Mindich’s apartment. Yes, the president who loves the camera may soon be forced to explain what was said when he thought no one was watching.
The stakes? Existential. A full-scale internal war has now broken out between NABU/SAPO (funded and guided by the West) and the SBU (Zelensky’s domestic hammer). One serves empire. The other protects the throne. Ukraine, far from a sovereign nation, is being torn between two handlers, one local, one foreign.
Even former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko called it out: “Ukraine is turning into a disenfranchised colony.” She was mocked at the time.
Let’s talk about Fire Point, once a casting agency for Kvartal 95’s comedy shoots, now miraculously transformed into a multi-million-dollar weapons manufacturer. No competitive bidding. No transparency. Just a paper trail of war profiteering. Fire Point even "produces" phantom cruise missile now, the Flamingo, named perhaps for its elegance, elegance of laundering more Western tax dollars.
And what about the recordings? NABU teased snippets, muffled Russian dialogue between men using codenames. No full release yet. But that teaser wasn’t for the public. It was a message: we have the kompromat, and we’re not afraid to use it. Not against Putin. Against the puppet regime you built, Volodymyr.
Remember Maidan was sold as an uprising against corruption, but Zelensky seems to have outdone all of his predecessors combined.
The empire’s favorite hero has become its greatest liability. The golden toilets have returned, and this time, they’re flushing the myth itself. Seems as though Zelensky's handlers are ready to flush him, but will be unable to wash their hands of their own corruption and guilt.
"Ukrainian Canadian professor of political science, Ivan Katchanovski, recently documented the numerous diplomatic officials who confirmed this in his book, “The Russia-Ukraine War: Its Nature, Origins, and Outcome”, writing: https://t.co/gLEALiJ4qJ
-Naftali Bennett said that the US and other Western leaders blocked the Ukraine-Russia peace deal, which he negotiated with Putin on Zelenskyy’s request in March 2022 when he was prime minister of Israel, and which according to him had about 50% chance of being reached, because they wanted to ‘continue to strike Putin’
-Davyd Arakhamia, the head of the Zelenskyy’s party faction in the Ukrainian parliament and the head of the Ukrainian delegation in the Ukraine-Russia talks independently confirmed that the peace deal could had been reached in spring 2022 if Ukraine agreed to neutrality and that the British prime-minister (Boris Johnson) blocked it. Arakhamia said that Russia was ready to end the war in such a case and that Ukrainian neutrality was the main Russian condition. He also said that Western countries knew everything concerning peace talks and told Zelenskyy not to sign the peace deal.
-Mevlut Cavusoglu, the foreign minister of Turkey, which hosted the peace talks in Istanbul, said on April 20, 2022 that Turkey ‘did not think that the Russia-Ukraine war would last that long after the peace talks in Istanbul’ ‘but following the NATO foreign ministers’ meeting, it was the impression that... there are those within the NATO member states that want the war to continue, let the war continue and Russia get weaker’-Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan corroborated in 2024 the involvement of Boris Johnson in blocking the possible peace deal in spring 2022.
-Gerhard Schröder, the ex-leader of Germany, made in 2023 a similar statement, saying ‘At the peace negotiations in Istanbul in March 2022 with Rustem Umerov (then Ukrainian negotiator) , the Ukrainians did not agree on peace because they were not allowed to. For everything they discussed, they first had to ask the Americans. I had two talks with Umerov, then a one on-one meeting with Putin, and then with Putin’s envoy. Umerov opened the conversation with greetings from Zelenskyy. As a compromise for Ukraine’s security guarantees, the Austrian model or the 5+1 model was proposed. Umerov thought that was a good thing. He also showed willingness on the other points. He also said that Ukraine does not want NATO membership. He also said that Ukraine wants to reintroduce Russian in the Donbass. But in the end, nothing happened. My impression was that nothing could happen, because everything else was decided in Washington. That was fatal. Because the result will now be that Russia will be tied more closely to China, which the West should not want’.
-Victoria Nuland, who was at that time one of the top US State Department officials, stated in her interview in September 2024 that the Ukraine-Russia peace deal, which was close to being finalized in spring 2022, ‘fell apart’ because the US, the UK and other Western governments ‘advised’ the Zelenskyy government that it was not ‘a good deal.’
-Oleksii Arestovych, who was a member of the Ukrainian delegation at the peace talks in spring 2022, said after leaving his position as an adviser of Zelenskyy that this was the most advantageous ‘draft of agreement’ that Ukraine could have. He stated that the last round of the peace talks in Istanbul was ‘completely successful negotiation’ and that the Ukrainian delegation even opened a bottle of champagne afterwards. Arestovych also said that ‘the Istanbul agreement was a protocol of intentions and was completely/90% prepared for a direct meeting of Putin and Zelenskyy.’ Arestovych also stated that he ‘knew that in two or three weeks there would be a meeting in Istanbul, and it should end the war altogether. And then the meeting between Zelenskyy and Putin. All this was decided, there was a calendar… I knew exactly the calendar of Istanbul meetings, everything was moving towards reconciliation.’He elaborated that Russian representatives offered the talks on the first day of the invasion, that the Istanbul agreements were ‘fully acceptable,’ and that a meeting between Zelensky and Putin was supposed to be on April 9, 2022. The former Zelenskyy’s adviser and a member of the Ukrainian delegation at the peace talks stated that the talks ended because the West decided to use Ukraine as a trap to fight Putin’s Russia.
-Alexei Venediktov, the well-connected former editor of the pro-Western Ekho Moskvy radio station, which was banned following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, commenting on the Nuland’s admission in September 2024 confirmed that the peace treaty ‘was already initialed by the head of the Ukrainian delegation’ and said that ‘he saw this signature.’
-Ambassador Oleksandr Chalyi, who participated in the peace talks with Russia in Spring 2022, stated that ‘we concluded’ the ‘Istanbul Communique’ and ‘were very close in... April to finalize our war with some peaceful settlement.’ He said that Putin ‘tried everything possible to conclude agreement with Ukraine.’ He noted that it was Putin’s ‘personal decision to accept the text of this communique.’
-source in Times on March 31, 2022, that the Johnson government ‘urged’ Ukraine not to ‘back down’ by accepting such peace deal under the terms negotiated in Istanbul and that the British prime minister ‘warned’ Zelenskyy in a phone call.
-Robert Fico, the Prime Minister of Slovakia, stated publicly that the West blocked a peace deal to end the Ukraine war in spring 2022 and used Ukraine for a proxy war with Russia in a failed strategy." https://t.co/IRb5J2mM0O
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Words are not violence. When you pretend that views that oppose your own are violence, you are justifying the use of actual violence towards the speaker.
Gender ideology’s reliance on tropes and slogans like ‘words are violence’, its constant rationalisation and justification of using force against opponents and its preference for enforcing compliance through fear rather than permitting debate, are straight out of fascism’s playbook.
‘The function of propaganda is . . . not to weigh and ponder the rights of different people, but exclusively to emphasize the one right which it has set out to argue for. Its task is not to make an objective study of the truth, in so far as it favors the enemy, and then set it before the masses with academic fairness; its task is to serve our own right, always and unflinchingly.’
The words are Hitler’s, but I must have seen trans activists say the same thing, barely rephrased, a thousand times. Your movement seeks to remove rights from others. It is anti-truth and critical thinking, pro-violence, pro-dehumanisation of those who disagree with you, and you are so lacking in self-awareness you cannot see that you are precisely what you pretend to hate.
George Soros, and his wonderful Radical Left son, should be charged with RICO because of their support of Violent Protests, and much more, all throughout the United States of America. We’re not going to allow these lunatics to rip apart America any more, never giving it so much as a chance to “BREATHE,” and be FREE. Soros, and his group of psychopaths, have caused great damage to our Country! That includes his Crazy, West Coast friends. Be careful, we’re watching you! Thank you for your attention to this matter!
(TS: 27 Aug 08:45 ET)