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Ukraine's top general admits Russia superior on front line


RT
Mon, 08 Sep 2025 12:16 UTC
Syrsky
© Vadim Ghirda/APAleksandr Syrsky
Moscow has called for a diplomatic resolution of the conflict, but says it will use military means until the root causes are addressed.

The Russian Armed Forces outmatch Kiev's army in both manpower and equipment, Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Aleksandr Syrsky has said. His remarks come after months of Ukrainian setbacks on the front lines and mounting struggles to replenish the ranks, with the country's leader, Vladimir Zelensky, accused of dragging out peace efforts by insisting on Western-backed security guarantees.

In a Telegram post on Monday outlining the situation on the front line, Syrsky said August was a difficult month for Ukraine, acknowledging that Russian troops prevailed in all key areas.
"August 2025 was a month of great trials for our troops. The enemy has a three-fold advantage in troops and means, and in the main areas of concentration of their forces outnumber us four to six times."
The general said Kiev's main efforts are currently focused on holding back Russian advances in the Limansky, Dobropolsky, Pokrovsky, and Novopavlovsky areas, which he described as "the most threatening."

Comment: The only 'win' in a losing war is to end it quickly.

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'Go Talk To Bill Gates About Me': How JP Morgan Enabled Jeffrey Epstein's Crimes, Snagged Netanyahu Meeting

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Tue, 09 Sep 2025 13:43 UTC
Jeffery Epstein and JPMorgan Chase
© FTIllustration via FT
On an autumn day in 2011, Jeffrey Epstein stepped into JPMorgan Chase's headquarters at 270 Park Avenue and rode the elevator to the executive floors where the bank's leaders, including Chief Executive Jamie Dimon, kept their offices. Epstein, who had pleaded guilty to a sex crime in Florida three years earlier, had a message for the bank's top lawyer, Stephen Cutler: he had "turned over a new leaf," he said, and powerful friends could vouch for him. "Go talk to Bill Gates about me."

Key takeaways:
  • Epstein was connected to Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, not just former PM Ehud Barak
  • He wired 'hundreds of millions of dollars in payments to Russian banks and young Eastern European women'
  • Accounts for young women were opened without in-person verification (in one case a SSN could not be confirmed)
  • Jes Staley was constantly running interference for Epstein vs. JPM compliance concerns
    • At Jes Staley's urging, compliance spoke with Epstein's lawyer Ken Starr, who insisted "no crimes" had been committed.
  • Epstein had accounts at JPM for at least 134 (!) entities
  • JPMorgan funded/serviced pieces tied to Ghislaine Maxwell (millions, incl. $7.4M for a Sikorsky helicopter) and helped finance MC2, the modeling agency linked to Jean-Luc Brunel.

Comment: For more on Epstein's money trail:

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On your knees: This EU move has just revealed the scale of their insignificance


RT
Tue, 09 Sep 2025 08:56 UTC
Macron, Merz and Starmer
In 2018, Europe swore it would shield the Iran deal from Trump. In 2025, it brought Trump's 'maximum pressure' back under their own banner

Back in 2018, Europe blasted Donald Trump for pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal. Paris, Berlin, and London warned of a looming crisis in the Middle East and insisted the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was the only safeguard against another regional war. They even rolled out a special financial vehicle, Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges (INSTEX), to shield trade with Tehran from US sanctions. For a moment, it looked as if Europe was finally ready to assert its own strategic autonomy.

Seven years later, the picture couldn't be more different. Britain, France, and Germany have triggered the snapback mechanism - a procedure written into UN Security Council Resolution 2231 back in 2015. On paper, snapback is a technical clause: if one of the deal's signatories claims Iran is in breach, all the pre-2015 UN sanctions come rushing back. In practice, it's a political bombshell. The very governments that once positioned themselves as defenders of the deal are now taking the first steps to dismantle it.

Comment: Europe is being destroyed. Its economy, its culture, its credibility, its trustworthiness, its sovereignty and more is all being pulled apart.
There is a way back though not with the current crop of leaders and that way back will be hard and long with many obstacles in the way.

See also:

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Migrant children lost under the Biden Administration found dead or working as sex slaves

MaryAnn Martinez
Daily Mail
Sat, 06 Sep 2025 08:38 UTC
Two-year-old migrant girl from El Salvador
An unaccompanied two-year-old girl from El Salvador explains she arrived in the US by herself and that her parents are in the US, Texas Department of Public Safety posted in November. The child had a piece of paper with a phone number & name
After an estimated 233,000 children who crossed the US-Mexico border alone during President Joe Biden's tenure were lost, law enforcement has started to locate them - only to learn of the horrors they have faced.

Since March, the Trump administration has tracked down 22,638 kids, finding some in 'deplorable' conditions, dead and others being used as sex slaves, officials told Fox News.
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Elite UK divers likely behind Nord Stream sabotage - Putin aide


RT
Mon, 08 Sep 2025 08:29 UTC
Gas leaks from the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea, September 30, 2022.
© Anadolu / Getty ImagesGas leaks from the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea, September 30, 2022.
Ukraine lacked the expertise to bomb the Baltic Sea pipelines, Nikolay Patrushev has said.

The sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines could not have been carried out without Western commandos, a top aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed, singling out Britain as the likely culprit.

German prosecutors have attributed the explosions in international waters in September 2022, which disabled the twin pipelines supplying Russian gas to Germany via the Baltic Sea, to a group of Ukrainian nationals.

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Ending a war that never should have started

Kevin Rosenhoff
Mises Wire
Tue, 02 Sep 2025 00:00 UTC
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© Adobe Stock
Six months after Zelenskyy's historic humiliation in the Oval Office, Trump's meeting with Putin hopefully signals an end of the Russia-Ukraine war. From a moral point of view, this is to be welcomed, as the war — from both sides — has been morally illegitimate from the outset.

A Morally Justified War Must Be Proportionate

The central framework for evaluating the morality of war is the so-called just war theory — an ancient tradition shaped by various philosophers. Within it, a fundamental requirement for starting and continuing a war is proportionality. Generally, this means the evils caused must stand in due proportion to the evils prevented. American philosopher Jeff McMahan differentiated this idea with his distinction between narrow and wide proportionality. Simply put, while narrow proportionality concerns the appropriate harms inflicted on aggressors (e.g., Russian soldiers), wide proportionality deals with harms inflicted on innocents (e.g., Ukrainian and Russian civilians).

More specifically, narrow proportionality concerns harm to those who are liable to be harmed — meaning they have, to some extent, forfeited their right against harm, and thus would not be wronged by being harmed to that degree. A harm is deemed proportionate in this sense if it corresponds to the forfeiture of the right against harm, and disproportionate if it exceeds it. A common way to determine such forfeiture is to ask whether the individuals harmed could legitimately complain or claim an apology or compensation. If they could do neither, it seems that no injustice has been done. Following this reasoning, deadly defense against a cold-blooded knife attacker might be judged proportionate, since he appears to have forfeited his right to life. After all, he could hardly complain or demand compensation if the victim used deadly force to fend off his unjust attack.

Comment: Vast differences between adversaries create proportionally small commonalities, complicating the determination of good/bad, right/wrong outcomes.

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Israel has officially moved on from destroying Hamas to erasing Palestine

Nurad Sadygzade
RT
Fri, 05 Sep 2025 19:40 UTC
Tanksitters
© Amir Levy/Getty ImagesIsraeli soldiers sit on a tank near the border with the Gaza Strip
Despite objections from across the world, Netanyahu's government is redrawing the map with tank tracks.

In early August, Benjamin Netanyahu dispelled any lingering ambiguity. In a direct interview with Fox News, he made explicit what had long been implied through diplomatic euphemisms: Israel intends to take full military control of the Gaza, dismantle Hamas as a political and military entity, and eventually transfer authority to a "non-Hamas civilian administration," ideally with Arab participation.

"We're not going to govern Gaza," the prime minister added. But even then, the formula of "seize but not rule" read more like a diplomatic veil for a much harsher course of action. The very next day, Israel's security cabinet gave formal approval to this trajectory, initiating preparations for an assault on Gaza City. The UN secretary-general responded swiftly, warning that such an operation risked a dangerous escalation and threatened to normalize what had once been an avoidable humanitarian catastrophe.

August exposed the war in its most unforgiving clarity. Strikes on Zeitoun, Shuja'iyya, Sabra, and operations in the Jabalia area became a part of the daily rhythm. The encirclement of Gaza City tightened slowly but relentlessly. Brigadier General Effi Defrin confirmed the launch of a new phase, with troops reaching the city's outskirts. At the same time, the government called up tens of thousands of reservists in a clear signal that Israel was prepared to take the city by force, even if the window for a negotiated pause technically remained open.

In this context, talk of "stabilization" rings hollow. Infrastructure lies in ruins, the healthcare system is on the verge of collapse, aid lines often end under fire, and international monitoring groups are recording signs of impending famine. The conflict is no longer a conventional war between armies. It is taking on the contours of a managed disintegration of civilian life.

Comment: Author is spot on. Regarding strategy and outcome, the rest of the world is merely sand in Israel's hand.

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Days of Thunder

James Howard Kunstler
kunstler.com
Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:00 UTC
BlueJackets
© UnknownThe Blue Jackets, a reflection
"If we hadn't won this election we would have all been vaxxed to death and censored so no one could hear our dying screams"
— Mike Benz on "X"
That reckoning you've heard about lo these many years? It's here now. We're in it. You just can't see all the moving parts, and if you did, you might not understand how or where they are moving, and what they are fixing to do next. Aside from certain US senators playing their pre-scripted mad scenes for the cameras, a disquieting quiet blankets the swamp like a miasma. It feels like a long, still moment before some shaking of the earth. Everyone senses it and the guilty must feel it most keenly.

That's why they are laying low and keeping their traps shut. Every criminal defense lawyer inside the beltway is burning the midnight oil (and racking up the billable hours, ka-ching). Meanwhile, where are their clients? No longer peddling alibis on MSNBC (MSNOW), at least. I doubt that John Brennan is even in the country. My guess would be he's cooling his heels in Abu Dhabi, where the extradition protocols with the USA remain comfortably squishy to his advantage. (He reportedly became a Muslim while running the CIA station in Riyadh between 1996-99, just in time for 9-11. . . hmmmm. . . .)
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Putin and Trump 'will prevent WWIII' - Kremlin envoy


RT
Sun, 07 Sep 2025 11:56 UTC
Dmitriev
© Sergei Savostyanov/SputnikPresidential Aid Kirill Dmitriev
Peace in Ukraine is close because the two leaders are engaged in dialogue, Kirill Dmitriev has said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart, Donald Trump, are bringing the end of the Ukraine conflict closer, Kirill Dmitriev, a presidential aide on international economic affairs, has said. He added that the diplomatic efforts of the two men could prevent World War III.

Dmitriev, who is also the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), the country's sovereign wealth fund, wrote on X on Saturday: "Stalin, Roosevelt & Churchill won WWII. Putin & Trump will prevent WWIII."

He accompanied his post with a picture of the Soviet, US, and British leaders made during the historic 1945 Yalta Conference, which laid the foundations for the post-war order after the defeat of Nazi German
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Zero hour for French President Macron as Prime Minister Bayrou's government collapses

Kurt Zindulka
Breitbart
Mon, 08 Sep 2025 18:17 UTC
macron bayrou president prime minister france
© Ludovic marin / POOL / AFPFrance's Prime Minister Francois Bayrou (R) arrives to hear France's President Emmanuel Macron deliver a speech to army leaders at l'Hôtel de Brienne in Paris on July 13, 2025, on the eve of the annual Bastille Day Parade in the French capital.
Paris politics has once again descended into chaos, as the government of Prime Minister François Bayrou collapsed on Monday after the National Assembly overwhelmingly voted against a confidence measure brought forward by the embattled PM in a last-ditch effort to pass through a national budget.

The deadlock over the budget came in large part as a result of President Macron's Machiavellian move during last summer's legislative elections to form a pact between his centrist coalition and the leftist New Popular Front (NFP) in the second round of voting after Marine Le Pen's National Rally looked to be on the cusp of taking power. The move resulted in a three-way split within the National Assembly, with no faction able to govern effectively.

Macron first turned to former EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier; however, despite his reputation as a firm hand, his government collapsed in just over three months after the Eurocrat attempted to push through budget measures without a vote in the parliament. Unable to dissolve the National Assembly for a year after the previous election, Macron then turned to long-time ally and Mayor of Pau, François Bayrou, in a second attempt at bridging the divided legislature.

Comment: NY Post adds:
Bayrou conceded in his last speech as prime minister to the National Assemnly that putting his fate on the line was risky. But he said that France's debt crisis compelled him to seek legislative support for remedies, in the face of what he called "a silent, underground, invisible, and unbearable hemorrhage" of excessive public borrowing.

"The greatest risk was to not take one, to let things go on without changing anything, to go on doing politics as usual," he said. "Submission to debt is like submission through military force. Dominated by weapons, or dominated by our creditors, because of a debt that is submerging us — in both cases, we lose our freedom."

At the end of the first quarter of 2025, France's public debt stood at 3.346 trillion euros, or 114% of gross domestic product. Debt servicing remains a major budget item, accounting for around 7% of state spending.

[...]

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen called for Macron to again dissolve the National Assembly, seemingly confident that her National Rally party and its allies would win a majority in another snap legislative election, positioning it to form a new government.

"A big country like France cannot live with a paper government, especially in a tormented and dangerous world," she said in the National Assembly.

[...]

Macron's chosen successor will operate in the same precarious environment and face the same pressing budget problems that dogged Bayrou and his predecessors. Macron himself has vowed to stay in office until the end of his term, but risks becoming a lame duck domestically if political paralysis continues.

Under the French political system, the prime minister is appointed by the president, accountable to the parliament and is in charge of implementing domestic policy, notably economic measures.
The reason France (and Germany and the UK) are going broke is their unhinged financial commitment to propping up Ukraine. The EU talking shop's policies are having real effects on the citizens under their heel, but they don't care. The grift must go on.

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