President Vucic accuses Kosovo of creating a security threat on the border.

Kosovo is challenging Serbia's security and creating the risk of violent clashes in the region, President Alexander Vucic warned on Tuesday while addressing the national parliament.

Vucic accused Kosovo authorities of exacerbating tensions on the territory's border with Serbia by increasing the presence of special forces.

"We are at a moment when Serbia, due to the steps of Pristina, is facing significant security challenges... I want to say that the presence of the special forces of Pristina police in the north of Kosovo and Metohija is increasing. I will also tell you about the strengthening of our posts," Vucic explained.

He stressed that "there is no creation of a crisis by the Serbian side," and warned that "the danger is close, objective and serious."

The EU leadership is resolved to ignore protest messaging, however loud it becomes.

There is a whiff of desperation floating across the Brussels battlespace. Forget the Ukraine war - that is a lost cause, and just a matter of time, until its final unravelling; yet the Ukraine - as icon of how the Euro-élite have elected to imagine themselves - could not be less existential. It is (cynically) seen in Brussels to be key to keeping the 27 member states in 'lockstep' that is - and an opportunity for a power grab: 'We Europeans are 'victims', like Ukraine, of Putin's actions'; 'All must sacrifice to the newly installed command 'war economy''.

Consider the fears (as perceived by Brussels) of abandoning Ukraine to plead with Moscow for gas and oil. A speech by President Macron last week gave a 'teaser' to what might follow: Macron told an ambassadors' conference in the Élysée last week, that the EU should not allow East European warmongers to determine EU foreign policy, or even allow East Europeans to act unilaterally in support of Kiev. "A commentator joked that Macron at least avoided Jacques Chirac's infamous remark that Eastern Europeans had missed an opportunity to 'shut up'".

Wars are not won by psyops. Ask Nazi Germany. Still, it's been a howler to watch NATOstan media on Kharkov, gloating in unison about "the hammer blow that knocks out Putin", "the Russians are in trouble", and assorted inanities.

Facts: Russian forces withdrew from the territory of Kharkov to the left bank of the Oskol river, where they are now entrenched. A Kharkov-Donetsk-Lugansk line seems to be stable. Krasny Liman is threatened, besieged by superior Ukrainian forces, but not lethally.

No one - not even Maria Zakharova, the contemporary female equivalent of Hermes, the messenger of the Gods - knows what the Russian General Staff (RGS) plans, in this case and all others. If they say they do, they are lying.

As it stands, what may be inferred with a reasonable degree of certainty is that a line - Svyatogorsk-Krasny Liman-Yampol-Belogorovka - can hold out long enough with their current garrisons until fresh Russian forces are able to swoop in and force the Ukrainians back beyond the Seversky Donets line.

All hell broke loose - virtually - on why Kharkov happened. The people's republics and Russia never had enough men to defend a 1,000 km-long frontline. NATO's entire intel capabilities noticed - and profited from it.

There were no Russian Armed Forces in those settlements: only Rosgvardia, and these are not trained to fight military forces. Kiev attacked with an advantage of around 5 to 1. The allied forces retreated to avoid encirclement. There are no Russian troop losses because there were no Russian troops in the region.

Arguably this may have been a one-off. The NATO-run Kiev forces simply can't do a replay anywhere in Donbass, or in Kherson, or in Mariupol. These are all protected by strong, regular Russian Army units.

It's practically a given that if the Ukrainians remain around Kharkov and Izyum they will be pulverized by massive Russian artillery. Military analyst Konstantin Sivkov maintains that, "most combat-ready formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are now being grounded (...) we managed to lure them into the open and are now systematically destroying them."

The NATO-run Ukrainian forces, crammed with NATO mercenaries, had spent 6 months hoarding equipment and reserving trained assets exactly for this Kharkov moment - while dispatching disposables into a massive meat grinder. It will be very hard to sustain an assembly line of substantial prime assets to pull off something similar again.

The next days will show whether Kharkov and Izyum are connected to a much larger NATO push. The mood in NATO-controlled EU is approaching Desperation Row. There's a strong possibility this counter-offensive signifies NATO entering the war for good, while displaying quite tenuous plausible deniability: their veil of - fake - secrecy cannot disguise the presence of "advisers" and mercenaries all across the spectrum.

Up to 100 employees at the King's former official residence, including some who have worked there for decades, received notification that they could lose their jobs just as they were working round the clock to smooth his elevation to the throne.

Private secretaries, the finance office, the communications team and household staff are among those who received notice during the thanksgiving service for the Queen, at St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh on Monday, that their posts were on the line.

Many staff had assumed they would be amalgamated into the King's new household, claiming they were given no indication of what was coming until the letter from Sir Clive Alderton, the King's top aide, arrived.


One source said: "Everybody is absolutely livid, including private secretaries and the senior team. All the staff have been working late every night since Thursday, to be met with this. People were visibly shaken by it."

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday held 90-minute telephone talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the situation in Ukraine and food security problems, the German government said.

"In view of the serious military situation, the chancellor insisted on making the soonest diplomatic decision based on a ceasefire, complete withdrawal of Russian troops, and respect to Ukraine's territorial integrity and sovereignty," it said.

Germany has crossed a red line with Russia by sending arms to Ukraine, Moscow's ambassador in Berlin said on Monday. The decision undermined decades of reconciliation since the end of World War II and the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, the diplomat added.

"The very fact that the Ukrainian regime is being supplied with German-made lethal weapons, which are used not only against Russian military service members, but also the civilian population of Donbass, crosses the red line," Ambassador Sergey Nechaev said in an interview with Izvestia newspaper.

He added that Berlin should have known better, "considering the moral and historic responsibility that Germany has before our people for the Nazi crimes."

Russia is no longer fighting a Ukrainian army equipped by NATO, but a NATO army manned by Ukrainians. Yet, Russia still holds the upper hand despite its Kharkiv setback.

The Ukrainian army began a major offensive against Russian forces deployed in the region north of the southern city of Kherson on Sept. 1. Ten days later, the Ukrainians had expanded the scope and the scale of its offensive operations to include the region around the northern city of Kharkov.

While the Kherson offensive was thrown back by the Russians, with the Ukrainian forces suffering heavy losses in both men and material, the Kharkov offensive turned out to be a major success, with thousands of square kilometers of territory previously occupied by Russian troops placed back under Ukrainian governmental control.

Instead of launching its own counteroffensive against the Ukrainians operating in the Kharkov region, the Russian Ministry of Defense (MOD) made an announcement many people found shocking.

The government's latest motion strongly suggests the Biden administration is all-in on pursuing a criminal case against the former president.

Hiding behind the horror of 9/11, the Biden administration demands that a federal judge and the country trust its targeting of a top political opponent — all while leaking details of classified documents to a pliant press.

This development and six others flow from recent court filings in former President Donald Trump's efforts to obtain a special master's oversight of the FBI's seizure of thousands of documents and personal effects from his Mar-a-Lago home. The government doesn't want to allow an independent review of the documents it's seized. Trump's legal team does.

First, The Backdrop

Three days after the August 8, 2022, raid on Trump's Florida home, an attorney representing the former president spoke with Jay Bratt, the chief of the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section of the Justice Department's National Security Division. Bratt has apparently been leading the investigation into the former president.

Trump's lawyer asked Bratt "to agree to the appointment of a Special Master to protect the integrity of privileged documents." Bratt refused. A week-and-a-half later, Trump filed a separate action in a Florida district court seeking judicial oversight and the appointment of a special master.

Beware: Ukraine's touted Kharkov offensive is probably not what the US news media cracks it up to be....

The Russians called their move into Ukraine last February a "special military operation" for a reason. The description was precise. It was not a "war" prosecuted on the people of Ukraine. Russia could have completely disabled the Zelensky regime in an afternoon with air power, but they did not want to smash up the country's vital infrastructure and foreclose the peoples' future.

The operation was designed to expel Ukrainian military forces from their forward dug-in positions along the Donbas frontier, where they had been shelling, harassing, and killing the Russian-speaking population for eight years — ever since the 2014 CIA-backed Maidan "color Revolution" brought Ukraine under American control.

The precipitating event of the operation begun last winter was the renewed threat to bring Ukraine into NATO, for the purpose of putting bases on Russia's border. Russia would not tolerate that any more than America would tolerate Russian bases planted across our border with Mexico. The special operation was mounted to reestablish firm boundaries, both geographically and in geopolitical psychology, for an adversary, the West, who displayed an increasingly psychotic drive to smash all boundaries that make civilized life possible, even in their own countries.

On September 8, a session was held in the UN Security Council on the topic of arms delivery to Ukraine by the West.

In the introductory part of the session, Dragana Trifković, director of the Center for Geostrategic Studies, spoke about the weapons that were delivered to the battlefield during the war in Yugoslavia, comparing it to the current situation in Ukraine. Below you can read the entire speech of Dragana Trifković:

Dear Chairman, Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished members of the Security Council,

At the beginning, I want to express my special respect for this high body of the World Organization and to thank you for the opportunity to speak, which at the same time I consider a great responsibility for every word spoken.

When we talk about the war in Ukraine, it is very important to look at it consistently and to take into account the arguments of both warring parties. Of great concern is the fact that one can often hear only accusations that are not supported by arguments, much less evidence.

The view of the war of someone who is from Serbia and who has survived and learned about the special methods of warfare, may differ from many others who do not have that experience. That is why, from the beginning, I considered the war in Ukraine to be a hybrid war and compared it to the one that was waged on the territory of the former Yugoslavia in the nineties of the last century, in terms of the external influence of the preparation of the war to the direct and indirect participation in the war through the training and arming, bringing in volunteers, and commanding of the army.