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Soft targets: Ukraine cravenly attacks four civilian Wildberries e-commerce warehouses

ukraine attack wildberries commercial warehouse civilian
© Exilenova+A massive fire destroys a Wildberries logistics hub in Krasnodar, Russia, following a drone attack on the night of July 21-22, 2026.
Wildberries, which is widely referenced as 'Russia's Amazon', has seen four of its top ten distribution hubs attacked by Ukrainian long-range drones in only a matter of days, potentially putting their business operations in doubt.

Stunning footage is widely circulating Wednesday of some of the latest attacks, which came overnight. A large fire broke out in the outskirts of Krasnodar in southern Russia at a sprawling Wildberries warehouse.

Regional media has cited several separate fires in the area, before which witnesses reported hearing some 20 to 30 explosions across the city and its outskirts.

Another key logistics hub for Wildberries, which is far and away the country's biggest online retailer, was also hit in the Stavropol region overnight, resulting in the urgent evacuation of employees.

Comment: Wildberries has also been compared to Etsy, with thousands of individual craftsmen and artisans trying to earn a living selling their products through the platform. What sort of military importance would an embroidered tea towel have to the Russian military effort? Zelensky and his neonazi thugs just wants to see ordinary people suffer


Bizarro Earth

Israel's bloody carnival: Netanyahu is pushing the world to the precipice to save himself

Netanyahu buttons to push
© UnknownIsraeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu • Hands on!
Netanyahu is a political corpse. His time has come and gone, but he's clinging to power with desperate fury — by igniting the most dangerous conflict of our era.

They talk about "strategic windows." They whisper about "regime change." In Washington's back offices, they paint rosy pictures of the Iranian people rising up beneath a hail of American and Israeli bombs. But any Palestinian — anyone who's ever stared down the barrel of an Israeli soldier's rifle at point-blank range — knows this playbook by heart. This isn't strategy. This is justification. This is bloody madness wrapped in patriotic rhetoric that the West swallows with the same eagerness it once gulped down promises of "freedom" in Iraq and "democracy" in Libya.

This isn't about Israel's security. It never was. When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sets his sights on assassinating Iran's supreme leader — as his own defense minister revealed back in March — he isn't thinking about the fate of Israeli children. He's thinking about his own political hide, about his chair, which rocks more violently beneath him with each passing day.

That statement isn't just a loud military threat. It's a mirror reflecting the true face of the Israeli regime: the face of an arsonist ready to burn down the entire Middle East just to extend his own grip on power. And while the world's media naively tallies up planes and ships, we Palestinians know what comes next: another wave of blood. Only this time, Iran is the target, but the method remains the same — fear, destruction, and arrogance without limits.

Comment: The horrendous turns of events support a deadly and diabolical agenda. Netanyahu is 'the hand' inside the glove.


Hiliter

US and Saudi Arabia sign nuclear agreement that could lead to Saudi uranium enrichment

US Energy Sec Chris Wright
© Energy Department of the United StatesUS Energy Secretary Chris Wright at the signing ceremony
The US and Saudi Arabia signed a nuclear agreement on Wednesday under which Washington will help Riyadh establish a nuclear program that could lead to uranium enrichment on Saudi soil.

The Energy Department said that US Energy Secretary Chris Wright and his Saudi counterpart, Abdulaziz bin Salman Al Saud, signed a deal known as a 123 Agreement, named after Section 123 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. The deal lays out terms for the transfer of US nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia.

According to The New York Times, the deal includes a provision that, after a joint study with Saudi Arabia on the economics of producing nuclear fuel, the Saudis may be allowed to enrich uranium or reprocess plutonium on their soil. The agreement is notably different than the 123 Agreement the US signed with the UAE in 2009, which didn't allow uranium enrichment.

Comment: Trump backtracks on Saudi nuclear deal:
US President Donald Trump appeared to backtrack on the Saudi nuclear deal on Thursday by making it conditional on Riyadh normalising ties with Israel.

Trump wrote on Truth Social:
"The Civil Nuclear Deal (There will be no enrichment of material!)... pertains only to non-military use such as the ones that Iran and UAE (and others) already have, will be approved, but is totally subject to Saudi Arabia joining the very respected and successful Abraham Accords.

"The United States is not opposed to Civil (Non-Enriched) Nuclear Facilities."
Washington and Riyadh had agreed to allow the kingdom to build reactors using US technology.

Earlier reports indicated that Saudi Arabia could enrich uranium without accepting the rapid United Nations inspections Washington previously demanded from Iran.

Saudi Arabia maintains that it will not normalise relations with Israel without a credible roadmap towards Palestinian statehood.

Congress will now review the agreement and has 90 session days to block it before it takes effect.

Israel and its pro-Israeli agents in the US have come out against the deal.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has previously insisted that any nuclear agreement with Riyadh would not contribute to proliferation.
Any 'credible' roadmap from Israel leads over a cliff.


Dollars

IMF approves new Ukraine cash tranche despite anti-corruption 'slippage'

Zelensky / Geoprgoeva
© Legion-Media/Ukraine Presidents Office/AlamyUkraine's Vladimir Zelensky • IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva in Kiev, Ukraine, on February 20, 2023
The agency has released $690 million while acknowledging that Kiev hasn't met structural reform benchmarks.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved another tranche of its loan to Ukraine despite acknowledging that Kiev isn't on schedule implementing reforms aimed at tackling corruption.

In a statement issued on Monday, the IMF said its Executive Board had completed the first review of Ukraine's 48-month Extended Fund Facility (EFF), approving the release of a $690 million tranche. The latest payment brings total IMF disbursements under the $8.1 billion loan program to approximately $2.2 billion, according to the fund.

The IMF said the program's performance has been "broadly satisfactory," but noted that reform implementation had slowed. It cited "slippage" in structural reforms, including governance and anti-corruption measures. "Several structural benchmarks [were] completed with a delay or missed," it said, adding that revised timelines for key reforms had been agreed upon.

Comment: A 'return' to sender? No sense in putting big sums of money to unachievable use.


Star of David

America as Zionist muscle: Minister Smotrich says its 'best for us' if US fights Iran while Israel sits out latest round of war it started

West bank and Smotrich
© Public domainBezalel Smotrich leads the Religious Zionism party and wants Israel to annex the West Bank and Gaza
As four more American families grieve the deaths of soldiers killed in the war on Iran, one of the top-ranking ministers in Israel's cabinet told an Israeli audience that having America do all the fighting and dying is "the best for us." Israel had intensely lobbied President Trump to launch a joint war on Iran on Feb 22, and traded blows with Iran up until early June. Since Trump restarted intense, daily bombardment of Iran 11 days ago, however, Israel has sat out the action, sparing Israelis from lethal Iranian retaliation.

"The State of Israel has no interest in joining the contained confrontation between Iran and the United States," far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich said in a session at the Katif Conference for National Responsibility, which endorses Jewish settlement in Palestinian territories. "The current situation is the best one for us."

Comment: The Zionist ghouls aren't even trying to hide anymore. And pretty soon, those same ghouls won't even have to go through the pretense of getting U.S. permission to continue their slaughter campaign.




USA

Democrats dismiss our constitutional traditions as 'nostalgia'

Prayers
'Freedom of Worship', Norman Rockwell
Below is my column in The Hill on the latest spin from the left to convince Americans to abandon core constitutional institutions and values as part of a radical agenda in the upcoming elections. Those who defend our traditions, on the 250th anniversary of our Republic, are now being accused of being "nostalgic" rather than progressive. It is a nostalgia that will take on a truly tragic element if professors, pundits and politicians are successful in this effort.

Here is the column:

It appears that the Madisonian democracy has joined shackets and combat boots as embarrassingly outdated for many on the left. In calling for radical changes to our constitutional system, leading Democrats are now calling the lingering loyalty to our traditions as mere "nostalgia." To be nostalgic in today's parlance is to be a dupe of the oligarchs and an enemy to reform.

"Nostalgia" has become the new coded term for reactionaries among Democratic figures, who are trying to convince Americans to accept radical changes to our republic after 250 years.

Kamala Harris recently insisted that opposition to ideas like packing the Supreme Court is mere "nostalgia" for a system that is no longer working. "I would caution us against talking about rebuilding with any sense of nostalgia about how things work, because even before, they weren't working so well for a lot of folks," she said. That "nostalgia," according to Harris, is preventing us from doing things like packing the Supreme Court with an instant liberal majority.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) last week also declared that "nostalgia is not working" and, while refusing to embrace socialism, added that "capitalism as we know it doesn't work."

Arrow Down

Narrative control: the collapsing authority of the state

Statue disintigration
© UnknownThe Fallacy of Control
The populist surge has become an existential threat to the establishment - and their response is ever-more authoritarian measures to govern what we can read, see and say.

Perhaps the central battleground of contemporary politics is the need of our political elites to control the narrative. Primarily, the role of establishment politicians is not to deliver changes and reforms, not to fix problems identified by people in their everyday lives, and not to change circumstances such that they can attract votes, but to maintain narrative hegemony.

Crucially, this differs from previous attempts to maintain ideological hegemony - that is, to win the societal 'battle of ideas' - because ideological warfare was always related to the real world. For example, Stalinism's ideological success was demonstrated in defeating the Nazi industrial machine at its own game, capitalism defeated communism by offering unparalleled standards of living, social democracy was ideologically effective to the degree it demonstrated you could balance both the demands of organised labour with those of economic growth.

By contrast, the attempt at narrative hegemony treats the political realm purely in the domain of information management. This is a political class that has given up on shaping the world and instead looks to shape the narrative.

Syringe

Fed officers flagged Peter Daszak as 'an extremely high person of interest' - the FBI told them to stand down

peter daszak wuhan covid
© Hector RETAMAL/AFP/Getty ImagesPeter Daszak, who repackaged U.S. government grants and allocated the funds to research institutes including the WIV, arrives there on February 3, 2021, during a fact-finding mission organized in part by the World Health Organization.
Customs officers spent three days building a border examination for the man at the center of the COVID origins fight - until Biden's FBI put a stop to it with a single email.

On February 2, 2021, a national targeting security specialist at U.S. Customs and Border Protection's National Targeting Center circulated a referral to colleagues across the agency. The subject was Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, scheduled to land at John F. Kennedy International Airport three days later aboard Qatar Airways flight 701 from Doha, arriving 2:25 p.m. He was returning from the World Health Organization's mission to Wuhan investigating the origins of SARS-CoV-2.

The referral asked that Daszak be considered for a Tactical Terrorism Response Team examination - a secondary inspection that can include questioning and a review of electronic devices. Which, now we know, never happened.

Comment: More on the shady Peter Daszak:


Black Magic

Ukraine has a new butcher-in-chief - all the better to feed Ukrainians to the grinder

Former Ukrainian commander-in-chief Aleksandr Syrsky
Now former Ukrainian commander-in-chief Aleksandr Syrsky
Syrsky is gone, but his replacement is a sign that Zelensky as committed as ever to prolonging a losing war at terrible human cost.

The rule of Vladimir Zelensky has been a catastrophe for Ukraine, and that is how it will be remembered once the dust of relentless info war campaigns in his favor - and against his critics - settles.

While the corruption of the Zelensky regime is stupendous, that fact - sad as it is - is not what makes him special, however. Because exorbitant, shameless embezzlement, kickbacks, and fraud have been the Ukrainian establishment's perverse normal since independence. Zelensky and his cronies are certain to have cashed in like no one before because the West has pumped in money as never before while turning two blind eyes to what happens to it. But in principle, Zelensky has merely done what they all do. Not that that makes it any better.

Comment: The new military commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian forces:




Bullseye

RNC files lawsuits to stop non-residents from voting in six states

Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters.
© Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty ImagesRepublican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters.
While it seems like common sense that living in a state should be a prerequisite to voting there, the Republican National Committee is suing six states to stop them from doing so.

Fresh off a court win in North Carolina, the RNC has filed lawsuits against Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, New Jersey, Virginia, and Nebraska, each targeting a version of the same loophole. In these states, a person who has never set foot as a resident within their borders can still cast an absentee ballot there, often because a parent or legal guardian once lived in the state decades ago.

"If you've never lived in a state, you shouldn't be voting in its elections," RNC Chairman Joe Gruters told the Daily Signal.

"The RNC already put a stop to this unconstitutional loophole in North Carolina, and we're taking Nebraska, Colorado, Nevada, and New Jersey to court to do the same," Gruters added,

"We'll keep fighting to ensure elections are only decided by legal residents."

Comment: Common sense is, of course, in short supply these days. Good luck to the RNC. Whatever one may think of the Republican party, this is a worthy fight.