A bomb planted by Ukrainian spies rocked the underbelly of Russia's Kerch Bridge which links occupied Crimea to the Russian mainland.

In what was Kyiv's third attack on the structure, its security service said it detonated 1,100kg of explosives early on Tuesday, damaging some underwater pillars.

According to Ukraine's SBU, its agents had secretly mined the bridge's foundations in a months-long operation aimed at destabilising a vital artery for supplying Russian forces.

The SBU said in a statement: "Today, without any casualties among the civilian population, at 4:44 in the morning the first explosive device was activated!"

Contrary to what we thought in 1991, the fall of the "American Empire" will not resemble that of the USSR. Washington's Western European allies intend to perpetuate it, with or without their leader. It follows that President Donald Trump will abandon them in the cold.

After decoupling the United States from the "revisionist Zionists" in power in Israel, President Trump is decoupling it from NATO and the European Union: he no longer wants his country to have anything to do with the "American Empire" and its hired guns, the Ukrainian "integral nationalists."

As with Israel, he initially gave the impression of giving carte blanche to EU members and the UK, then began to undock.

Remember: President Trump allowed Western leaders to convince themselves that they could fight Russia in Ukraine alone. At numerous meetings in Paris, London, and Kyiv, EU and UK leaders attempted to announce that they would jointly ensure the continent's security against the danger of a "Russian invasion." They considered placing all their nations under the British and French nuclear umbrellas, rather than that of the United States. They contemplated a continental war against Russia and a reorganization of alliances around the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Poland.

America is facing a growing crisis that is unfolding before our eyes and is likely to intensify in the years ahead. Strangely, this issue receives little objective attention in mainstream media. Instead, we are reassured that this new force — artificial intelligence (AI) — will improve our lives, streamline our work, and enhance human potential. We are told it will launch the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It will usher in a new era unprecedented levels of productivity and open the door to life-saving medical breakthroughs.

Indeed, AI has already demonstrated extraordinary capabilities in early cancer detection and the diagnosis of neurological diseases like Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's, and dementia. It is redefining creative fields such as literature, music, filmmaking, and visual arts. AI promises to elevate the quality of education. It will resolve complex legal disputes and optimize systems ranging from supply chains to urban infrastructure. And to a very significant degree, these promises are true.

Yet beneath the optimism lies a deeper and far more troubling reality that is finally gaining attention — not through traditional media channels, but from independent investigators, alternative media outlets, ethicists, scientists, and even prominent tech experts such as Elon Musk, Stuart Russell, Andrew Critch and David Krueger. The late Nobel laureate physicist Stephen Hawking has been widely cited for stating on BBC:

"The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race."

Across the board, these voices warn that without an "off switch" mechanism, AI will not simply cause widespread social and political disruption but will be an existential threat to humanity itself.

Many were misled by top influencers into thinking that Russia supports the Houthis.

Chairman of Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council Rashad Mohammad al-Alimi met with Putin at the Kremlin last week. He importantly told him:

"I have come here today first and foremost to thank you for your support of Yemen's legitimate government. Following the coup orchestrated by the Houthis with Iranian backing, Russia's stance in the Security Council and across international platforms has consistently upheld constitutional legitimacy while promoting Yemen's development and prosperity."

That must have surprised many members of the Alt-Media Community (AMC) who've been misled by top influencers into thinking that Russia supports the Houthis. One such influencer, Pepe Escobar, raged that "Russia's official position on Yemen ABSOLUTELY SUCKS. A credibility disaster." The reality though is that the only "credibility disaster" is the one that just struck the AMC after Alimi's meeting with Putin since members of the AMC might now start asking why they were misled about Russian policy towards Yemen.

"The Caliphate looms; it is inevitable, and the road to its gates is paved with the skulls of English children."
— Peachy Keenan

Do you hear those alarm bells ringing? Looks like June is bustin' out all over, as the old Broadway ditty goes. Bedlam is in the air, and in more varieties than Heinz has pickles. Take your pick: civil war blooming in France and the UK, maybe even Germany — if it can shake off its psychotic stupor. World War III flutters over the continent like an answered prayer coming in for a landing. And here in the USA, genuine insurrection ripens with the summer's peaches.

The Champs Elysees was a battlefield Saturday night as a soccer celebration went all Jihad, leaving two rioters dead and hundreds arrested (unreported inThe New York Times, of course, because. . . reasons). The two Alexanders at The Duran report that a plot is underway in London to deep-six (not eighty-six) Labour PM Sir Keir Starmer, who enjoys the lowest poll ratings in the history of British polling. Ol' Keir likes to throw grannies in jail for rude Facebook posts while Islamic rape gangs do their thing and knife attacks multiply on the indigenous population. Not a good look. Perennial nationalist irritant Tommy Robinson was released from prison the other day, too, and you can expect fury arising around — and at him — as the sceptered isle day-by-day disappears under a burqa.

The bloc does not need militarization, but rather peace talks between Moscow and Kiev to succeed, the Hungarian prime minister has said.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has unveiled a proposal to increase the power of EU members and limit the authority of its bureaucracy. Calling it a "patriotic plan" for the bloc, he said in a series of weekend social media posts that it will revive the "European dream."

The EU elites in Brussels have exploited every crisis to amass more power, Orban claimed in a post on X. This course has so far only translated into less sovereignty for member states and "failed policies," according to the prime minister. "Brussels hijacked our future" by disrupting public safety through migration and eroding prosperity with "green dogmas," he stated in another post. "Europe can't afford this any longer, it's time to take back control," he said.

The prime minister's plan is based on what he calls four pillars:

A path toward peace on the continent and defusing tensions with Russia, removing Brussels' "centralized control" over finances, "bringing back free speech" and strengthening Europe's Christian identity, and tightening control over immigration.

"We want peace, we don't need a new Eastern front," Orban said, commenting on his plan and stating that the bloc should not accept Ukraine as a member. "We don't want our money poured into someone else's war," he added.

Tonight will be fateful for the conflict's future.

Ukraine carried out strategic drone strikes on Sunday against several bases all across Russia that are known to house elements of its nuclear triad. This came a day before the second round of the newly resumed Russian-Ukrainian talks in Istanbul and less than a week after Trump warned Putin that "bad things..REALLY BAD" might soon happen to Russia. It therefore can't be ruled out that he knew about this and might have even discreetly signaled his approval in order to "force Russia into peace".

Of course, it's also possible that he was bluffing and the Biden-era CIA helped orchestrate this attack in advance without him every finding out so that Ukraine could either sabotage peace talks if he won and pressured Zelensky into them or coerce maximum concessions from Russia, but his ominous words still look bad. Whatever the extent of Trump's knowledge may or may not be, Putin might once again climb the escalation ladder by dropping more Oreshniks on Ukraine, which could risk a rupture in their ties.

This was the mood in informed Moscow - only a few hours before the renewed Istanbul kabuki on Russia-Ukraine "negotiations". Three key points.

1. The attack on Russian strategic bombers - part of the nuclear triad - was a US-UK joint operation. Especially MI6. The overall tech investment and strategy was provided by this intel combo.
2. It's patently unclear whether Trump is really in charge - or not. This was confirmed to me at night by a top intel source; he added that the Kremlin and the security services were actively investigating all possibilities, especially who issued the final green light.
3. Near universal popular consensus: Release the Oreshniks. Plus waves of ballistic missiles.

Predictably, the Instabul kabuki came and went like a tawdry spectacle, complete with the Ukrainian delegation in military fatigues and Defense Minister Umarov incapable of speaking even mediocre English at a messy press conference after the brief 1h15 meeting. The Turkish Foreign Ministry epically described the kabuki as concluding "not negatively".

Nothing strategic or politically substantial was discussed: only prisoner exchanges. The mood in Moscow, additionally, was that top Russian negotiator Medinsky should have presented an ultimatum, not a memorandum. It was, predictably, interpreted as an ultimatum by the Beggar of Banderastan; but what Medinsky actually handed out to the Ukrainians was a de facto road map memorandum, in 3 sections, with 2 options for the conditions for a ceasefire, and 31 points, a great deal of them expressed in detail by Moscow for months.

Examples: first option for a ceasefire should be a complete UAF withdrawal from DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporizhia, within 30 days; international recognition of Crimea, Donbass and Novorossiya as part of Russia; Ukraine neutrality; Ukraine holding elections and then signing a peace treaty - approved by a legally binding UN Security Council resolution (italics mine); and a ban on the receipt and deployment of nuclear weapons.

None of that, of course, will ever be accepted by the terror-infused set up in Kiev, the neo-nazi outfits that control it, and assorted, fragmented collective West warmongering backers. So the SMO will go on. Possibly all the way to 2026. Along with extra versions of the Istanbul kabuki: the next one should be held by late June.

The current kabuki, incidentally, composes the Last Chance Saloon for Kiev to retain some measure of - fractious - "sovereignty". As Foreign Minister Lavrov has been reiterating, everything will be really decided in the battlefield.

The former mayor of Kiev, Vitali Klitschko has blasted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and bluntly stated that the country is plagued by authoritarianism.

The former world heavyweight champion boxer told the Times of London that Kiev City Council essentially cannot operate because of "raids, interrogations and threats of fabricated criminal proceedings."

"This is a purge of democratic principles and institutions under the guise of war," Klitschko declared, adding "I once said that it smells of authoritarianism in our country. Now it stinks of it."

Fernand Kartheiser has slammed Brussels' confrontational stance on the Ukraine issue, urging renewed diplomacy with Moscow

Luxembourg MEP Fernand Kartheiser has argued that the EU's confrontational approach to Russia during the Ukraine conflict has led to its own isolation.

The lawmaker made the remarks in an interview with RT released on Tuesday while on a trip to Russia that he was forced to fund personally due to the European Parliament's restrictions.

"Some people in the European Parliament... have an attitude toward Russia that identifies it as a big threat," Kartheiser said. "They think that if we put pressure on Russia and isolate it diplomatically, that might help to find solutions in the context of the conflict in Ukraine... it is not the discussion that we should have."