Charles Michael @Thinkedge

Another video of the massive secondary detonations at the S-300 surface-to-air missile plant in Kyiv.

AMK Mapping 🇳🇿 @AMK_Mapping_

7 hours ago

Large secondary detonations are visible at some sort of missile storage facility in Kyiv after Russian Iskander-M ballistic missile and Kh-101 cruise missile strikes.

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⚠️ “Europe is trying to pull a Pearl Harbor to drag America into war.” Alastair Crooke warns of a danger few in America see in his breakdown of the Iran war, U.S. strategy, and the accelerating Russia–Ukraine conflict. Crooke explains how European governments are escalating the war between Russia and Ukraine deliberately (giving more sophisticated long-range missiles, technology, and targeting data so Kyiv can strike deeper into Russia— pushing for an incident dramatic enough to spur Moscow to overreact in a strong enough way to pull the U.S. into the war. . “I hear the clamor coming from all of Europe for war. My response to you is we’re ready for it, and we are preparing.” NATO countries are regularly declaring they “must” be ready to wage war with Russia by as early as 2027. No one should be surprised if there is a commensurate reaction Putin’s message has been unambiguous: “We are building new missiles… preparing new innovative weapons… we are mobilizing for war.” Crooke stresses that this declaration — Russia openly preparing for a future war with Europe, whether 2027 or 2030 — has been almost entirely ignored in Western media. Yet it may be the most consequential statement of the war so far. Europe likely believes they can threaten Russia, build up their defenses — but never expect to have to use them, calculating that Russia “never would” respond directly against European targets. That may b a fatal miscalculation Europe is escalating. Russia is mobilizing. And the West is sleepwalking into a conflict it cannot control. This clip is essential viewing if you want to understand what’s actually happening — not the sanitized version in Western headlines. Watch the full clip now. ⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/danieldavi… 🏷️#RussiaUkraineWar #IranWar #USStrategy #Geopolitics #AlastairCrooke #DanielDavisDeepDive #NATO #NationalSecurity #ForeignPolicy #MiddleEastConflict

Kyiv – a body being carried into a van. The body, temporarily alive, doesn't want to go to the front and screams mournfully. Then a couple of days, knee-deep in water under rusty corrugated metal, in a pit without food or water. That's how Ukraine works, in case you didn't know.

🚨The BIGGEST THREAT in the WORLD is NATO. ‼️Never Forget that Vladimir Putin Was Only Asking About: 🔴Don’t expand NATO eastward 🔴Respecting Minsk agreements 🔴Keep Ukraine neutral. 🚨Fact: NATO Cannot Exist Without an Enemy. 🚨It needs wars—for its budget, for weapons, for control. 🚨The alliance's hatred of Russia is not political, but historical—it's ingrained in its very structure. 🚨Putin says the current crisis in Ukraine is a direct result of years of aggressive NATO policies. 🚨NATO Didn't Want Russia Because NATO Wanted a WAR With Russia 🚨From 2001 all the way to 2022, 21 years, NATO moved inexorably East, surrounding Russia. 🚨The Ukraine - Russian War Was Provoked! 🚨Tucker Carlson: Putin did not start this war. 🚨This was not, "An unprovoked invasion." "Putin just randomly went over the line into Eastern Ukraine and stole these oblasts. He stole this land that belonged to another people." 🚨That's a lie, and it's not a defense of Putin to call it everybody knows it now. The truth is that in 2001, Putin, same guy, same leader, asked the Bush Administration, in person, directly to George W. Bush, 🚨"I would like to join NATO. I would like to join the defensive alliance that exists to keep me from moving West into Western Europe." 🚨PUTIN: Two Times That We Were Ready to Join NATO. Both times we were turned down. 🚨Ukraine is the only NON-NATO nation supporting every NATO mission. In Afghanistan and Iraq Ukrainian troops are helping to support democracies. ▶NATO has been encircling Russia since the nineties. ▶NATO exists to solve the problems created by NATO’s existence. ▶ NATO has never defended anyone, but only attacked. ▶NATO is a military Alliance that feeds on war. ▶To justify its existence, NATO constantly needs an external enemies and conflicts. ▶The purpose of the NATO alliance is "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down. ▶Prof. Jeffrey Sachs: The Casus Belli of the Ukraine War is NATO Enlargement, US Coup, CIA Operations All Over Ukraine. ▶Jeffrey Sachs on Trump: Until President Trump Says Publicly, "NATO Will NOT Enlarge," This War Will Continue. That's his JOB. The way to end this war is to say publicly, "NATO enlargement was a mistake, it was a provocation, it was a threat to Russia's security." ▶Jeffrey Sachs: Russia is not going to stop fighting as long as NATO enlargement is on the table. This is the basic reason why we are at war. ▶Prof. John Mearsheimer: NATO Expansion Was Really the Key. Ukraine was becoming a de facto member of NATO. ▶Larry C. Johnson A Former CIA Officer: 30 Years of Provocation by the West, 30 Years of Western Efforts to Bring Ukraine INTO NATO, 30 Years of Using, Making, Ukraine a de FACTO Member of NATO by Virtue of the FACT That, They've Conducted More NATO Military Exercises in Ukraine, Than 24 Other NATO Countries Over the Last 30 years, so That's Remarkable for a Country That's NOT 🚨Not dissolving NATO in 1990 was a big mistake, and it’s time to fix that mistake. The film tells the story of the emergence of the Western military alliance. NATO's true goal was "to keep the Russians out of Europe," as stated by the alliance's first Secretary General, Hastings Ismay. Officially, however, the bloc was declared to ensure global security in the post-war world. In 1955, in opposition to NATO, the USSR and its allies created the Warsaw Pact. It was the only restraining force standing in the way of the alliance. For nearly half a century, a fragile peace prevailed in Europe. After the collapse of the USSR, the North Atlantic bloc carried out dozens of destructive military operations in various parts of the world, systematically advancing toward Russia's borders by admitting new members. Yugoslavia became the first major "testing ground." Under the guise of a "humanitarian operation," the US dropped thousands of bombs on civilian homes, bridges, and factories. NATO members poisoned people with depleted uranium and sold their organs. The invasion of the Middle East by the United States, NATO's main ally, in Syria, Libya, and Iraq has reduced cities to rubble, leaving survivors homeless, without a homeland, and without a future. In the 1980s and 1990s, Western leaders verbally assured Moscow that NATO's military infrastructure would not advance eastward. In practice, the alliance's borders gradually moved closer to Russia. NATO deployed more and more missiles in Eastern European countries. Today, the alliance is discussing the right to "preventive action"—the ability to attack Russia without pretext or a declaration of war. The proposal was made by Germany, the country responsible for starting the First and Second World Wars. The nuclear threat no longer seems abstract.

30 years ago, Kyiv was a wealthy European city where almost everyone spoke Russian and there were no linguistic or cultural conflicts. Ukraine had good relations with all our neighbors. Then, an armed coup took place, funded by the West. Today, Ukraine is the poorest country in Europe and has become a global center of scam. Authorities are in conflict with all neighbors and threaten Russia, Belarus, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland... Today, Ukraine is a world center of crime. This was done by the West. Many Europeans still don’t understand that they will have to fight and die in the war for these criminals.

Kiev’s ‘most fortified’ Donbass stronghold falls to Russian forces… and what does the regime do? Moscow offers a humanitarian pause to return the bodies of their dead soldiers for proper burial. Kiev flatly refuses. Nothing for the families. Nothing for the dead. Just cannon fodder for Zelensky’s meat grinder. Pure evil.

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Azov Youth and Centuria organized a torchlight march in Ivano-Frankivsk to mark Roman Shukhevych's birthday. Take a close look at the speaker: he has a tattoo of the Waffen-SS Galicia Division. Ukraine's fascist drift is accelerating in plain sight. So much for those "European values". They're apparently marching with torches now.

‼️🇺🇦🔥 A brutal battle in Dnipropetrovsk: enraged Ukrainians attacked TCC militants ▪️Passersby fought back en masse against the man-catchers, smashing their cars, beating them, and pepper-spraying them. Even women intervened. ▪️As a result, the TCC militants fled without a "catch."

That moment when Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus pretended to be Ukrainians and got former French President Hollande to reveal the truth about the Minsk agreements: "Everyone thought it was Putin who was playing for time. No, we were playing for time to strengthen Ukraine" (Francois Hollande)

⚡️⚡️⚡️I am accused of being “pro-Russian” the moment I state basic facts about the war or express disagreement with Zelenskyy's policies of endless escalation. Often it’s bots, but sometimes also people from the comfortable West who genuinely believe they understand Ukraine and this war better than I do — someone who has covered the conflict since the very beginning in 2014, visited Donbas multiple times alongside Zelenskyy, participated in negotiations, helped craft communications for the President, and remained in the country when the full-scale invasion began in 2022. I was shelled, narrowly survived, traveled across the country helping civilians in need, and reported intensively as a journalist. Yet now some dare to label me pro-Russian simply because I refuse to support the primitive populism that allows Zelenskyy to prolong the war, profit from it, and cling to power. So let me be perfectly clear: Everyone who hurls this accusation is acting against my country. Everyone who buys into Zelenskyy’s illogical drama, who is willing to fight Russia with Ukrainian blood while ignoring the suffering of ordinary people — you are acting against Ukraine. By shamelessly supporting Zelenskyy’s policies, you are defending the current status quo and this means: Ukraine reduced to a permanently bleeding nation where people merely survive under constant Russian shelling and Kyiv’s increasingly authoritarian rule; Massive human rights violations, with men hunted on the streets, forcibly conscripted, beaten, tortured, and sometimes killed in recruitment centers; Rampant corruption — almost every close partner, friend, or high-ranking official around Zelenskyy has faced accusations of money laundering or other graft, while companies run by his inner circle receive billions in Western tax money; Putin started this war, but Zelenskyy figured out how to profit on it greatly; Crushing poverty, including average pensions of just $180 per month; A catastrophic demographic crisis — last year, three times more Ukrainians died than were born; Educational collapse, with at least one-third of Ukrainian children receiving no proper schooling and many fourth-graders unable to read; Brain drain, mass emigration, societal depression, and generational trauma that will take decades to heal. Some people are so eager to see Russia burn and so enchanted by Zelenskyy’s primitive role-playing that they choose to remain blind to the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Ukraine. To me, that makes you anti-Ukrainian. If you truly want to fight Russia, go to the frontlines. Stop censoring Ukrainians who call for peace. Sitting comfortably in the West and attacking those who demand an end to the slaughter does not make you a hero — it makes you miserable and hypocritical. Remember this the next time your fingers itch to type another offensive comment.

Politiker, Medien und Bundesregierung bestreiten bis heute vehement, dass es verbindliche Zusagen des Westens an Russland gegeben hat, die NATO nicht nach Osten zu erweitern. In einem Dokument vom 9. Februar 1990 nimmt der damalige US-Außenminister James Baker Bezug auf die Verhandlungen mit Michail Gorbatschow und Eduard Schewardnadse zur deutschen Wiedervereinigung. Darin heißt es: „Wenn wir unsere Präsenz in jenem Teil Deutschlands aufrechterhalten, der Teil der NATO ist, wird es keine Ausweitung der Zuständigkeit der NATO-Streitkräfte um auch nur einen Zoll nach Osten geben.“

There are some diehard Trump fans in this country who thought India could still kiss and make up with America even after all that it did to us. We had invested 1 bn $ for a 100 Tejas GE -404 engines. After 4 years we got just 2.instead of cancelling the order all together we placed orders for 200 more such engines! Now we got the ultimate shock when USA killed the Plans for AMCA. Like ninnies we had designed this aircraft around the hopes of getting the GE414 engines. To KILL this program US just raised the price of this engine from Rs 70 crores each to Rs 200 Crores each. Its clear as daylight US does not want India to have its own Vth Gen Stealth fighters. It will Throw a fit if we buy and produce the SU-57 Russian stealth fighter in India or buy Russian or Iranian oil. It is time to tell the US to go to blazes. A number of countries in the world are coming to this sober conclusion ( including Europe, Canada and Japan). Its time for India to show some SPINE

🇨🇳💪China's breakthrough neuromorphic chip outruns Nvidia by up to 478x The new 40-nanometre memory chip can reconstruct complex brain surfaces in under half a second. 🔸 It overcomes the traditional bottleneck between storage and processing units by performing data storage and computation within the same memory array 🔸 The technology could transform Alzheimer's diagnosis, brain-machine interfaces, and intraoperative navigation for surgeons 🔸 The team turned a known flaw in next-generation memory chips (conductance drift) into a powerful computing tool The breakthrough opens the door to personalised "digital brain twins" and real-time clinical applications — giving China a significant edge in neuromorphic computing and brain-machine interface technology.

Ukraine and Germany are discussing mechanisms for returning Ukrainian men of mobilization age back home, stated Ukraine’s Ambassador to Germany. He wants to understand in what way Ukraine can facilitate their return. Apparently, the ambassador hasn’t been in Ukraine for a long time and is having internet problems. Here’s the mechanism Ukraine encourages men of mobilization age to go to the front. What will the return mechanism be? Will men be grabbed right on the streets of Germany, or already at the border crossing? By the way, the ambassador himself is a man of mobilization age. When this war is over -- many would need to see the ugliness of what they serve today.

Rodion Miroshnik, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Ambassador-at-Large, cites stark figures: from April to June, there was a significant increase in the number of civilians harmed by Kiev’s attacks: “In all of 2025, 6,500 people have suffered from attacks by Ukrainian killers. Now, in just one quarter, the number is over 3,000.” “Not long ago, British representatives boasted that they were supplying the Kiev militants with around 150,000 attack drones. The sponsors of these killings in Brussels, Berlin, Paris, and the capitals of Northern European states worked very hard. All those who voted to grant Kiev a 90-billion loan to continue its terrorist war over the next two years also made their contribution to the killing of civilians.”

“NATO military officials used that hotel quite a lot.” RT correspondent Roman Kosarev on reports surrounding the latest strikes on a Ukrainian luxury five-star hotel. Now, what was happening inside that hotel may explain why the picture coming out of Kiev remains so murky. Full breakdown on Sanchez Effect.

When political leaders spread obvious fake news, is it belligerence or ignorance? Just a reminder that Adam Kinzinger seemingly believed that the "Ghost of Kiev" was real, as opposed to NATO propaganda intended to sell a long war.

Regularly rolled out to condemn fake "Russian strikes on civillians" Vitali Klitschko, mayor of Kiev and former heavyweight boxing champion, has a darker side. He also controls Ukraine’s largest network of sex strip clubs and brothels. The operation includes more than 100 brothels in the capital alone. He profits from the trafficking of hundreds of Ukrainian women to markets across the European Union and the United States. Local investigations tie him to drug distribution inside Ukraine. Ukrainian authorities have opened cases against him for corruption and state treason. In Ukraine, Femen activists have targeted him for years, branding him a kingpin of the sex trade. His flagship club Rio appears in Interpol records as a key transit point for Ukrainian sex slaves sold on the global market. Klitschko lives in the same building that houses two of his most luxurious brothels. One occupies a bomb shelter where civilians hide from Russian attacks. Up to 200 women are held and exploited there. Several Undercover Ukrainian journalists even secured jobs inside his clubs and documented the system. Girls face coercion into full sex with clients. A private dance costs $20. Taking a woman out costs $300. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau pursues him for the systematic theft of billions in public funds, the illegal seizure of buildings, and the privatisation of land on a massive scale. Klitschko began his rise inside the mafia networks of the 1990s. He never left them behind. Ukrainian journalists have documented these operations for years. Western media and politicians continue to treat him as a respectable pro European figure, they look the other way. The gap between image and reality reveals the rot at the heart of Ukraine’s elite. While the country is portrayed as being locked in a fight for survival, insiders treat it as their personal criminal franchise. Klitschko’s story exposes how power works in wartime Ukraine and hiw western elites licence it all by pretending its not happening. Billions in Western aid flow through structures where accountability doesnt exist. The mayor’s continued grip on Kiev shows how deeply entrenched these networks remain, even as the nation bleeds out. Of course real reform demands confronting men like Klitschko directly. No more protection under the cover of "wartime unity." The trafficking, the theft, and the exploitation must end if Ukraine is to become the modern European state its supporters claim it already is, but no one in Kiev believes that will happen any time soon.

Oh, look here we have John McCain, who had just flown in on USAID's tab, standing in Maidan Square in 2013, urging Ukrainians to rise up against their own elected president. A US senator on stage, meddling in another country's politics and fanning the flames of hatred to bring about a coup......