Dmitry Orlov

A lot of chattering heads are currently chattering about a great many things, such as:

• Trump said something about holding elections in the former Ukraine. Zelensky said something about that too, but nothing too important. He wants to hold on to his job for as long as possible and will say random things hoping that this will prolong the former Ukraine’s agony.

• Some congresscritter filed a bill for the US to leave NATO, which is 70% US money, 80% US technology and 100% US-controlled, so the word “disband” would be more appropriate. US defense contractors, who would have to approve this bill using their congressional hand puppets, will have none of it, of course, as long as there is any chance of milking that NATO job some more.

• A new National Security Strategy document has been accidentally located on the White House web server, according which Europe is an enemy, Russia is a friend and the US is a pumpkin. Its author seems to have been an AI engine that’s been force-fed Russian political talk shows and Putin’s speeches. Lots of people reacted in shock, as if this is something real. But strategy needs to become policy and that policy then has to be followed, so let’s not hold our breath.

• The EU has a strategy too. It is to wait and to stall. They want to wait until Trump gets impeached or croaks or his term runs out and he’s replaced with the usual sort of globalist warmongering stooge. It’s only a hope but at this point that is all they have.

• In the UK, fake news outlets are once again yammering about the Skripal/Novichok nonsense and trying to scare everyone about Russian spies/drones/whatever in a desperate effort to distract the populace from the fact that the UK is bloody broke, run by idiots and generally falling apart.

• Various EU-critters are still circling frozen Russian funds stuck at Euroclear in Belgium like a pack of hungry hyenas, stupidly oblivious (or pretending to be) that there is no money there, just debt — Europe’s own debt to Russia.

• Off the coast of Venezuela, the US fleet tired of sinking fishing boats (the fish are on drugs, you see!) and have instead resorted to piracy. They hijacked an oil tanker and intend to steal its oil. Americans will pay for that stolen oil through higher prices at the gas pumps, of course.

• The latest bit of fake news is a leaked plan: Americans are considering organizing something called C5: five core nations that include Russia, China, India, Japan and, of course, the United States. Little do they know that there is already an organization of five core nations: BRICS. The US would be the 6th but it won’t be invited.

This is all fake news, of course. And now for some real news:

Servicemen from the 123rd and 6th Guards Separate Motorized Rifle Brigades of the 3rd Combined Arms Army of the “Southern” Group of Forces liberated the town of Seversk, completing the clearing of Ukrainian Armed Forces units from the city’s neighborhoods. Servicemen from the “Southern” Group of Forces unfurled the Russian Federation National Flag near the Seversk City Administration building, the Memorial to the Heroes of the Great Patriotic War, and the monument to the legendary Soviet T-34 tank in Victory Park, as well as on the streets and rooftops of the city, which has come under the control of the Russian Armed Forces.

Why is this important? Because Seversk was the last Ukrainian fortress, built up since 2022, and now it has fallen. It has been a long, hard slog blasting apart a series hardened concrete bunkers using rockets, artillery and air bombardment, but now it is over. For the Russian army, the path is now open to Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, the last two large cities left under Ukrainian occupation in the Donbas. The Russian forces are moving faster than ever and are very much enthused by the idea of an outright victory.

That is all that matters: victory. Victory will bring peace. Everything else is just noise.
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