TRUMP’S WAR OF DISTRACTION ON VENEZUELA BEGINS This is about domestic politics and distraction - and the start of trying to enforce this new era Monroe Doctrine garbage that died a century or more ago. Unless a successful coup inside the country follows this is all for show. Oddly it’s also going

UKRAINE’S SOUTHERN FRONT The fall of Hulaiapole has been much commented on and the cause is well understood. The problem is that Kupyansk and Pokrovsk have absorbed resources to the exclusion of the south and the price there is now being paid. Meanwhile it’s taken relatively few Russians to make

US MAINSTREAM MEDIA CBS FALLS TO MAGA This is no minor moment in the advancement of the right wing fact free news media in America. The new owners funded by billionaire Larry Eillerson’s money, have declared their surrender to the MAGAverse. At 6.30pm they announced they would no longer use experts

RUSSIANS INTERFERING IN IRAN Four Il-76 transports filled with riot gear have arrived in Tehran this afternoon, suggesting an emergency request from the Tehran regime. Russia is panicked that the regime will collapse and leave it even more isolated. Authorities today are becoming increasingly harsh

A second revolution in Iran? Is an imperial restoration on the cards? Current crashing, inflation rampant and there's no water...something has to give?

RUSSIA IS A MESS AND THESE DAYS WE CAN SEE RIGHT THROUGH IT Russia occupied 4336 square kilometers of Ukrainian land, or 0.72% of its total territory according to DeepState. On a casualty count of some half million men give or take, because it’s been a bad year. Having seen a Russian soldier sit

I KNOW BUT SHE’S FUNNY AND USUALLY RIGHT!

This is no ordinary defence line. Its a statement of intent and designed to make Russia think, and once they have ignored their own obvious conclusions it will rip them to shreds- if they ever get there.

AUSTRALIA MAKES A DIFFERENCE Australian M-1 Abrams have gone straight to the Pokrovsk front as part of a counter attack to stabilise the line and get Ukraine’s forces into the city while helping extract others from Myronrahd. This just shows you that despite the long winded transfer time, the

A MILITARY SUMMARY AS WE START THE NEW YEAR In the South the loss of Hulaiapole has yet to be truly felt. Ukraine’s forces were spread thin and expected to defend too much with too little. It resulted in the death of two senior commanders and we’ve seen the pictures of an intact Brigade HQ overrun.

STILL FIGHTING

TO EVERYONE EVERYWHERE HAPPY NEW YEAR! May 2026 as the start of the second quarter of this century, bring something better for everyone. Darkness does not prevail - except fleetingly - If good men & women make sure it fails. To a better future!

And it continues…..

#ukrainianview A LONG NIGHT FOR MOSCOW Ukraine sent in a drone swarm designed to act as decoys, jammers and concealers - allowing a strike to take out enough of the power grid to kill the electricity to 600,000 Muscovites. At last the Russian capital is experiencing what it rains down on Kyiv and

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#ukrainianview RUSSIA INVENTS EXCUSES TO WIN OVER TRUMP The latest in a long line of derivative excuses was used on Monday when Trump had his second call with Putin. The later said that Ukraine had attacked one of his residences and he was “pretty upset about it”. Trump later said that this was why

Valerii Zaluzhnyi is allegedly preparing to step down as Ukraine’s ambassador to the UK in early January, Radio NV reports. While no next role is confirmed, sources say he previously discussed options with Zelensky. The move comes amid persistent rumors that Zaluzhnyi may run for president.

#UkrainianView NO BREAKTHROUGH IN MIAMI AS TRUMP APPEARS BAMBOOZLED My take from Trump’s reaction to what was presented is that he in the surface recognises that it’s a good thing. He couldn’t easily find anything to argue with until someone tells him he should pick this point or that.

VAST EXPANSION IN CHINESE NUCLEAR WEAPONS MANUFACTURING: CHANGE OF STRATEGY Intelligence services and analysts alike have detected a huge increase in the past year, of the facilities China uses to manufacture nuclear warheads. The facilities seem to have been vastly expanded: one added a 430ksqft

RUSSIA ROUBLE PROBLEM… The Russian currency has increased in value against the dollar by around 35% since the start of the year, sitting at around 78 to $1. You might think this is positive for Russia. On top of that latest forecasts are that oil taxation receipts will fall 55% year on year.

RUSSIA AGAIN sorry but this is AppleNews and not everyone has access. apple.news/AdeYST5xzQ0K...

THE COURSE OF MASS HUMAN BEHAVIOUR CAN BE PREDICTED Ever since I read Foundation as a teenager, the concept of Asimov’s Psychohistory has fascinated me. The ability to predict the course of human behaviour over hundreds of years based on vast global trends. If you think we’re not predictable just

ZELENSKY CALLS RUSSIA AND AMERICAS BLUFF President Zelensky has placed the ball firmly in Trumps courts on the one hand Putin’s on the other. Trump swallowed the whole thing - saying of the 20 point plan that it was only Ok if he, Trump, said it was. The fact is it’s all a game, and Putin won’t

TÜRKIYE LOSING PATIENCE WITH RUSSIAN DRONES Another drone, this time an Orlan-10 has been shot down entering Turkish air space. This comes on top of two more being found - one with an explosive warhead intact in woodland outside of Asian Istanbul. Another was also found crashed on the Asian side

UNFORTUNATE EVENT A Ukrainian Brigade HQ was overrun at Huliapole and the Russians captured the bunker intact. The troops had fled, but left laptops and screens still running as the Russians have been keen to show off. It could be they were wiped remotely- there must be a protocol for such an

THE KINGS CHRISTMAS MESSAGE Came from Westminster Abbey. The end of it was a Ukrainian Choir singing - Henry-III of the House of Plantagenet-Lancaster and his successors who finished building the abbey in 1272, knew how to create acoustics. It’s stunning to listen to and had both of is in tears.

VISA WAR ON FREE SPEECH MAGA argues that free speech is being hindered by Europeans policing hate speech and fining X. So they ban the people responsible speaking about it in the US. So the MAGA doctrine is it’s free speech if they say it but if you you’re liberal and appalled by online hatred and

JD VANCE THINKS BRITAIN & FRANCE ARE AMERICAS LIKELY ENEMIES. The world is getting bizarrely screwed with this kind of bull being spewed out.

HEADING TO THE FRONTLINE - IN HANDCUFFS So likely are the new batch of Orcs to retreat and run off, Russia is now using handcuffs to take troops to the front line in a video I’ve just seen. How can they possibly sustain this. And they still haven’t worked out how to get bottled water to the front.

EU & G7 PREPARE TO BAN ALL TANKERS FROM MOVING RUSSIAN REFINED PRODUCT The West is about to stop Russia using Maritime Services - ship insurance and certification specifically. That will mean all western tankers allowed to carry refined oil products (diesel, petrol, kerosene etc) will be banned

They’ll be dead by Friday.

SEASONS GREETINGS! To everyone who follows and contributes thank you so much for making my efforts worth while. For taking the time to debate amongst each other with decency and civility. It’s been a difficult year at times both watching and discussing the war in Ukraine, and at times deeply

TO FINISH THE YEAR…. I thought it would be interesting to list any of the non-fiction books you’ve read this year and just a brief why? So I’ll start with January 2025: Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen The First Cold War 1500-1914 Russia v Britain February: Queen Victoria & Her Prime

ISW & WASHINGTON POST CONCUR PUTIN ISN’T BEING TOLD THE TRUTH Between their own reporting both outlets have decided, that Putin doesn’t understand the battlefield and is being lied to every day. They have concluded long after many others closer to and more involved the way Russia’s military operate

#Greenland GREENLAND BACK ON TRUMPS TARGET LIST If you thought he’d forgotten it appears not. He just appointed the Governor of Louisiana as a special representative to persuade Greenlanders, their land an Autonomous Region of the Kingdom of Denmark (a US NATO ally for what it’s worth these days),

This is fascinating but not really surprising when you remember that it was all bomb shelters underneath already from WW2, great piece of investigative work.

UNBELIEVABLE! An entire US carrier battle group with as many as three E2 Hawkeye AWACS and a carrier full of fighters and other aircraft, AEGIS equipped DDG’s and the entire satellite resources of the US couldn’t find a massive slow moving oil tanker leaving Venezuela as it slipped into the

RUSSIAN GENERAL WHO CLAIMED KUPIANSK HAD BEEN CAPTURED TO PUTIN ON TV… has vanished! As Russian soldiers complain about starvation, Putin’s fury at the lies he was told have resulted in Colonel-General (3 star) Sergei Kusovlev, Commander of Russia’s Zapad Grouping, to disappear. He’s believed dead.

THE EU FINANCE DEAL FOR UKRAINE IS A MAJOR VICTORY I’ve seen a lot of criticism about the deal, that it wasn’t enough and it was a chicken out over the Russian assets held in Belgium. That’s all nonsense and disingenuous, as is the allegation that the EU is ‘taxing its own people’ to pay the loan.

#UkrainianView CYPRUS PROMISES TO KEEP UKRAINE ‘FRONT & CENTRE’ AS IT TAKES OVER EU PRESIDENCY President Christodoulides said yesterday that his presidency of the EU for the six months starting January 1st, will keep Ukraine front and centre of its time in the position, including pushing hard on

#UkrainianView RUSSIAN CROSS BORDER RAIDS & KIDNAPPING PART OF COGNITIVE DISSONANCE CAMPAIGN Russian forces crossed remote parts of Ukraine’s northern border and forced at least 50 residents of a small village to evacuate to Russia. Intelligence proves that there is no offensive being planned or

RUSSIAN DOMESTIC AND INDUSTRIAL DEBT EXPLODES AS END OF YEAR ACCOUNTING REVEALS HIDEOUS FIGURES Defaults are now at a staggering level on 90 day overdue - over $110 billion, a massive leap. 24% of corporate debt is now in 3 months arrears, and on this scale it’s like a disease that spreads as

CHINA’S FUJIAN ‘SUPER’ CARRIER EXPOSED FOR KEY FAILINGS It’s been hyped but not any more. The carrier has a flaw that’s has resulted in a US assessment that it’s sunny about 60% as capable as the 50 year old Nimitz was when she was first commissioned in 1976. Its biggest problem that has impacted

OIL & GAS EXPORTS SO VITAL RUSSIA IS USING EVERY ICE BREAKER IT HAS December ice is unusually thick this year and it’s so bad that Russia is having to use all 8 of its nuclear ice breakers to keep the LNG and oil export lanes open. The high arctic ports are the only places Ukraine cannot reach.

PUTIN CLAIMS RUSSIA NEVER STARTED THE WAR Western media gives Putin extraordinary leeway. We report what he says as though we should believe it because he does. But really like all dictators it’s not what they say you should attend to, it’s what they do. The fact that Putin sat on live TV and said

CORRUPTION IS WHY THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE WILL FALL: CASE 1: IRAN Iran’s capital Tehran is in the midst of a truly dire and entirely man made water shortage so profound widespread population movements seem inevitable. Corruption caused it and exacerbates it every day. To the west of the city is Lake

WHAT UKRAINIANS THINK

SO THE EPSTEIN FILES REVEAL NOTHING….DISTRACT THE PUBLIC OPS UNDER WAY The Epstein files have been almost completely sanitised and the government has not released them all despite the law demanding it. The redactions are vast. Meanwhile an attack on Syrian positions around Palmyra was carried out