WEAKNESS ON DISPLAY Putin’s pathetic weakness was on full display last night as civilians died and were injured for absolutely no reason at all. War crime after war crime, the Russian regime achieved nothing and just reinforced why Ukrainians will never give in. Missiles won’t break them.

THE REAL REASON TRUMP DIDN’T ATTEND HIS SONS WEDDING Waiting to fly this morning and I read that the wedding was taking place in the Bahamas. They don’t allow convicted rapists to enter the country, nor anyone who has been found guilty of a felony where they have not had the sentence discharged or

CHANNEL ANNOUNCEMENT It’s time for my annual vacation which means I’ll be out of the country and largely banned from online for my mental betterment! I accept this because frankly, it’s a good thing. This is just a short trip, I’ll be back June 3rd from a trip on the Danube. January ‘27 I’ll be

AS UKRAINIANS MAKE SMALL ADVANCES IN EVERY MAJOR SECTOR RUSSIA….. still insists on its maximalist objectives even as elites start to appreciate that’s just not viable. TV debates hosted by Olga Skabeeva have become a forum to complain about Ukrainian drones all over western Russia and how weak it

THE COST OF A KILL According to the leader of Magyars Birds, the cost to kill a Russian soldier with a drone on the front lines is $862. Think how much it cost Russia to get them there, pay them, arm them, and for one badly trained infantryman it amounts to some $15,000 and then some. Every Shaheed

RUSSIAN ECONOMIC INDICATORS The end is in sight and they know it.

THIS JUST TELLS YOU HOW FEW CARDS TRUMP HAS OVER IRAN breakingdefense.com/2026/05/stra...

IRANIAN POSITION STRENGTHENS China is known to be supplying missile components to Iran. The country is rapidly rebuilding its drone capabilities along the lines of Ukraine- dispersed and impossible to cripple. The supreme leader laid the law down on HEU and said the stockpile would never leave Iran

RUSSIAN MEDIA BEGINS A BIZARRE DOMESTIC CAMPAIGN State controlled media is in the process of rolling out a campaign to promote that it is not censored and that internet blackouts are a good thing. Having no internet is now being promoted as a mental health positive, and a return to family

GOOD MORNING AND THANK YOU I just noticed I passed 8,000 followers last night. That’s a huge milestone - thank you all so much for your support. More and more interesting people asking questions and debating, imparting valuable information is a wonderful thing.

QUOTE OF THE DAY ON WAR: ‘First, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost?’ Karl Krause, 1916 an Austrian satirist working in the Imperial War Ministry Propaganda Department.

Russia faces a severe banking crisis, with 11% of bank debt non-performing. As the economy declines due to the war in Ukraine, public awareness grows amid government manipulation. The potential for revolution looms if conditions worsen.

$7 BILLION IN AIRCRAFT LOST DURING EPIC FURY As if the war wasn’t already making a fool out of the Trump regime, destroying Americas reputation, the past few days have proven to be scathing. The Senate and House Armed Services Committees grilled Admiral Cooper to a cinder. I actually felt sorry for

THE REALITY OF SCALE CANNOT BE IGNORED: UKRAINE PROVES IT Ukraine is proving that scale matters. It is now at a stage where its drone output levels have reached a scale that Russia has no means now of being able to defend from them. Rather than pushing a handful of drones at a single target,

WHY THE OIL PRICE ISN’T HELPING RUSSIA Urals Crude is almost twice the price it was in January. There’s only one major problem. They can’t export it anywhere other than the very restricted ports in the Far East. Ukraine has hit the export terminals so hard the volumes of oil leaving the Baltic and

UKRAINE WIDELY SEEN AS HOLDING FRONT LINE INITIATIVE Consensus is now that Ukraine, over most of the front lines, has the initiative. There are areas where this more marked - Western Zaporhizia and the south particularly and around Kupyansk and Konstantinivka. The Russians keep using infiltration

PUTIN’S VISIT TO XI YIELDS NOTHING The big item on Putin’s agenda was the Yamal-2 oil pipeline. Putin is desperate to get this built and needs Chinese money to do it. He doesn’t understand that China doesn’t have the money, and even if it did it will never pay for it. China doesn’t need the

AMERICAN PRIMARIES The single most disturbing fact is that whoever Trump endorsed, no matter their suitability for the role or their record, many of whom, are exceptionally dubious people with an atrocious track background, won. That means that the core MAGA acolytes and cult members still, no

SACEUR SAYS MORE AMERICAN TROOPS WILL LEAVE EUROPE The current withdrawals are just the start according to the current NATO SACEUR. Stating that as European rearmament improves then ‘more US forces will be removed as Europe takes increasing responsibility for its own defence’. That’s how they frame

REALITY IS PAINFULLY UNCOMFORTABLE Energy reality is starting to bite in the UK as government clears way for Russia-derived fuel imports newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/uk-clea...

RUSSIAN ECONOMIC WOES WORSEN AMIDST NUCLEAR DRILLS Putin flew to meet Xi yesterday as it was revealed China is training Russian soldiers for the front. Russia announced nuclear weapons exercises in conjunction with Belarus as part of its endless boring attempts to intimidate the West. At home it

ITS A LONG READ BUT INTERESTING: Blacklists, corruption and frontline needs: Ukraine tackles an arms-export puzzle www.defensenews.com/global/europ...

TRUMP TACOS ON ATTACK AS GCC ALLIES PANIC The Saudis, Qataris and Kuwaiti governments asked for the attack due to happen overnight could be put off as they fear Iranian retaliation. Trump obliged even as Irans latest proposals fail to come close to anything the Americans will accept on HEU. The

TRANSNISTRIA IS BACK AS CRISIS LOOMS The fake and illegal state jammed between Moldova and Ukraine is finally going to be dealt with.It actually belongs to Moldova but has 1,500 Russian troops there as ‘peacekeepers’ who have not been able to rotate out since the invasion of Ukraine. Its government

RUSSIAN MILBLOGGERS FACE REALITY They hate Ukraine. They support the war. But they know they are losing it and it’s getting worse. One wrote yesterday that either there would have to be a major mobilisation over the autumn or a peace deal, ‘because there is no third option’. They blame the wars

TURNING POINTS - we often fail to see what is right in front of us - we are at a turning point, Ukraine has transformed the war. America is broken, Russia is broken, Iran & China at a crossroads, Ukraine stands on the edge of greatness and Europe has woken up to its own responsibilities.

RUSSIAN BILLIONAIRE PERFORMS MENTAL GYMNASTICS Konstantin Malofeev who financed Girkin in 2014, a rabid Monarchist and ethno-nationalist said that “loosing to Ukraine isn’t shameful - Ukrainians are really Russians like us. Russians never lose and never give up”. You don’t need me to tell you

PENTAGON CANCELS ANOTHER EUROPE-BOUND ARMY UNIT The 3rd Battalion, 12th Field Artillery Regiment had been scheduled to deploy to Germany later this year as part of episodic deployments of long-range fire capabilities that both countries announced in July 2024. The Pentagon has cancelled the plan

THE CRISIS IN SANCTIONS AVOIDANCE KH-101 missiles that landed in Kyiv were found to have been made as recently as March this year. Parts came from the US, Japan, S.Korea, and Germany. This comes as drone parts are identified as having come from China, Japan, and Italy. Only this week have German

MONDAYS OIL PRICE START It’s reasonably stable but on the high side - even so nothing like as high as was predicted - many thought Brent would be 150 by now. Urals is an anomaly. The two primary oil pumping stations push crude east and west have been disabled so exporting oil is incredibly hard.

IRAN & US ‘ON DIFFERENT PAGES’ The general consensus is that the US and Iran remain miles apart in peace proposals. Trump is starting to become more abrasive again. The pair seem to be getting further apart rather than closer to an agreement but both seem unwilling to commit to another round of

UKRAINE USED MIX ARMOURED UNITS TO PUSH RUSSIANS OUT OF POSITIONS South of Zaporhizia the Ukrainians used a mixed armoured force to help drive Russians further out of their positions. The advance in the area close to the lake has been a zone the Russians have pushed north for months. Ukraine has

MAIN UKRAINIAN TARGETS IN MOSCOW Every one of them except the airport attack created vast palls of smoke and raging fires all of the city could see. The Zelenograd fire was factory that was next to a high rise but also partially under the Moscow ring road anti-clockwise direction. The heat from the

MOSCOW HUMILIATED BY MASSIVE DRONE RAID The Moscow region suffered the largest incursion of Ukrainian drones ever recorded in the past few days - a shocking warning to the Kremlin that if they think attacks on Ukraine’s cities are a one sided affair, that’s no longer the case. Where were the air

IRAN HITS UAE NUCLEAR POWER PLANT WITH DRONES The Iranians used drones to attack the nuclear power plant at Barakha which supplies about 25% of the states electricity. The UAE says the site is under control. This comes as the UAE is demonstrating closeness with Israel and determined resistance to

DOGS, never learn… Dog 1: carry 3m long branch 3 miles and tries to force it through 1.5m wide open gate. Repeats action. Dog 2: analyses situation, grabs the same branch so that now both of them are trying to get a 3m branch through 1.5m gap. I despair. This is probably the 100th in 7 years.

AS PUTIN ANNOUNCES VISIT TO CHINA ON 18-19 MAY: This is the latest published Chinese political cartoon, which tells you how they really see DJT

THE BELARUS CONUNDRUM Having just crawled out from under American sanctions the only dictatorship left in Europe may be on the surface pro-Russia. It owes its existence and the regime its security,to Russia. But Lukashenko has been in power even longer than Putin. And while he knows Putin has every

RUSSIA LOOKING AT HITTING GOVERNMENT SITES IN UKRAINE This is something that I have been expecting for years, and frankly I’m amazed it hasn’t happened before now. Ukraine yesterday noted that Russian drones had been paying particular attention to Kyiv and oblast government sites along with other

NO REASON GIVEN AND THATS THE ISSUE. POLAND & EAST EUROPEANS FURIOUS Out of the blue after a spat with the German chancellor that Trump saw as an insult, he ordered 5,000 troops out of Germany and home. Despite a grilling from the Senate Armed Forces Committee yesterday nobody from the Head of the

AN OBSERVATION ON TRUMP AND XI Many of the images leave me under the impression that Trump looked old and worn out. His mental acuity is down, and he acts more like a kid in a candy store than a president. Xi looked bored and fed up with having to be around him. There was a moment where Xi led

RUSKIYA OBSHINA IS EXACTLY THE TYPE OF ORGANISATION THAT FASCISTS RELY ON. Be careful what you wish for, you might get more than you bargained for Mr Putin. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I was watching the Sopranos for the first time since it came out in 1998/99. (the box set is in Apple for £29.99 and ones better half has never seen it). Trump is just like them. Random acts of violence and a belief they can get away with anything. Even as they know the world is closing in on them.

WE SHOULD MARK THIS The US defence budget is likely to soar by 50% to a staggering $1.5 trillion - only in 1942 was a bigger jump made. The cost will be met through government borrowing when the debt has just passed $40 trillion- forty thousand billion dollars. That debt is something republicans

RUSSIAN OIL INDUSTRY IN CHAOS AS NURLINO AND PERM DISABLED Russian oil fields are largely in the far north of the country and require thousands of kilometres of pipelines to reach refineries and export terminals. Perm and Nurlino are key to how this operates. They hold around one million tonnes of

MALA TOMAKCHA - A TURNING POINT? The tiny village has held out against Russian attempts to take it for four years. Thousands of Russians have died trying. A couple of days ago they withdrew and ended their efforts to do so. What has changed? The losses are almost certainly being re-examined. The

CENTCOM COMMANDER SAYS ONE THING, CIA ANOTHER Giving testimony yesterday in Congress, CENTCOM’s commander said Irans military was 90% degraded and posed far less of a threat than it did although it wasn’t completely illuminated. Meanwhile the CIA estimates are that it has access to at least 70% of

Air raids and bombings, double taps and civilian deaths. Thats Putin's last gamble. It won't work now and it's never worked because like Russia, the policy is bankrupt as well as bankrupting.

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PENTAGON INTEL ASSESSMENT FOR THE JCS WARNS CHINA IS USING IRAN CONFLICT TO GAIN STRATEGIC POINTS The DIME report leaked last night and is scathing in its analysis that the US has allowed China to gain major points and portray itself as a solutions provider. They have supplied weapons to every one