/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

So a bunch of trucks with tricked-out containers were driven into Russia, where they launched a drone attack on Russian military airports. They damaged a few planes. They also killed a bunch of civilians that crossed a bridge while it was being attacked.

It kinda reminds me of the beeper terror attack that was carried out by the mossad terror organization where they blew up children in Lebanon. It's similar in the sense that it represents weaponizing a part of the civilian supply chain. A weapon disguised as civilian cargo trucks or a weapon disguised as an electronic gadget.

This has been attributed to Ukraine, but there are strong suspicions the US was behind it. Since many of the planes that were targeted was part of Russias nuclear triad, it looked like attempt of destabilizing the balance of terror from nuclear weapons, and could be interpreted as a preamble to a full scale nuclear war. (whether nuclear bombers are still relevant as part of a strategic deterrent is questionable given the advances in air defenses, but I'll put that aspect to the side)

Obviously if the US did this, they didn't seem to have considered that Russia could apply the same tactic to attack US warplanes. Many are stationed on the 800+ US military bases around the world. Arguably those are even more vulnerable.

It seems very reckless while at the same time not really changing the dynamic of the Ukraine war.

The Russians seam to have ditched tit-for-tat game-theory logic for rational outcome-maximization logic some time ago. So it's unclear whether they will retaliate, it might take a while, because R.O.M. suggests delaying retaliations until it can be aligned with the desired outcome.

There also is the question whether the planes that were struck weren't just decoys made from decommissioned planes, since those planes were stationed outside of protective hangars in order to allow for cold-war arms-controle via satellite. Since most of the cold war arms controle treaties were dissolved by the US, this could make some sense.

Many people think this was done in order to bootstrap WW3. I sometimes wonder whether the nuclear-war-crazies are actually the same species as us, because from an evolutionary perspective a desire to eradicate your own species seems rather implausible.

It could all be a nothing burger since many of these planes were old, as in upgraded versions of stuff that was originally designed in the 60s and not really all that relevant in contemporary warfare. The Russians would obviously still be mad about the dead civilians.

I think the lasting legacy of this might be, paranoia about cargo containers.

>>489851
One of the points Alexander Mercouris made on this yesterday is that the planes had dual-purpose use: they were conventional bombers as well as strategic bombers. So it wasn't purely an attempt to attack Russian nuclear retaliation infrastructure. There's a lot of American bias in the press reporting on this in the sense that aircraft form a major component of American strategic nuclear forces, but this is not at all true of Russia. If the focus was purely on Russian nuclear deterrence they would go after ICBMs or submarines fleet.

>>489856
Yeah I'm not entirely convinced the Russians see it as oh it's just the least important pillar of our nuclear triad getting attacked, that's fine

I'll give you the point about the motivation, the target could have been the conventional bomber aspect. But the Russians can't know that for sure.

>>489865
Oh I think we can be sure about the motivation: this was just another means to sabotage peace talks and keep the war going as long as possible. The Ukrainians have no hope of winning this war and this changes nothing on the battlefield. If the US wasn't involved in these attacks this time then we can at least be sure intelligence from some other NATO country had a hand in a desperate attempt to saving the failing political career of some European ruler.

>>489867
>Oh I think we can be sure about the motivation: this was just another means to sabotage peace talks and keep the war going as long as possible.
There was talk this attack took 18 months planning, if that's true, the timing would have been difficult. But you are not wrong, it did interfere with the peace talks.

I still don't really get the rational for prolonging this war. Well, obviously there are the war-profiteers that want to keep the gravy train rolling, but that doesn't explain the hysterical behavior of the "Russia-warriors".

They said provoking this war would weaken Russia economically and militarily as well as fracture it politically , but that doesn't appear to be the case at all. The result seems to be that both Europe and the US have been weakened economically and militarily instead, and Europe seems to have suffered political fractures. And it also caused diplomatic isolation of the west because most of the world did not participate in the sanctions war against Russia. The longer this war drags on, the worse it will become.

>a desperate attempt to saving the failing political career of some European ruler.
So all this shit, because of careerism ? Bruh if that's true, that's fucked up.
Also is it actually working ? There doesn't seem to be much public support for this war, despite the high intensity warmongering in the media. If I was a politician i wouldn't double down on this, i would try to get out of the war and then memory-hole it as quickly as possible.

>The Ukrainians have no hope of winning this war and this changes nothing on the battlefield.
I think that was clear from the beginning, they never intended Ukraine to win, Ukraine's purpose was supplying cannon-fodder. Guys, guys Ukropia can totally win against a super-power was always just intended as a deception.

>If the US wasn't involved in these attacks this time then we can at least be sure intelligence from some other NATO country
Agreed. Obviously the question who done it is important, but I wonder if this won't get copied by others, and then burning question becomes who's doing it currently.

Another incredible scoop by Kit Klarenberg, revealing secret Britain plans to blow up the Kerch Bridge, entrap Russian officers in sexual blackmail, and train Ukrainians to plant limpet mines to sink Russian ships:

https://thegrayzone.com/2025/06/11/uk-plans-russian-black-fleet/

Chechnya leader Kadyrov: "Feeling emboldened by their impunity in the genocide of the Palestinian people, the Zionists have now decided to provoke Iran and create yet another hotspot on the world map.

For decades, we have heard Zionists and Western Satanists spreading disinformation that Iran is on the verge of developing nuclear weapons.

Thirty years ago, it was “any day now” and “on the threshold,” twenty years ago it was “any day now,” ten years ago—still “any day now.” So where is it? Probably in the same place as Iraq’s nuclear weapons.

On the pretext of the supposed existence of nuclear weapons, they flattened all of Iraq, killed Saddam Hussein, slaughtered hundreds of thousands of civilians, and pushed the country back by decades—and now they plan to do the same to Iran.

I believe the reaction of the Iranian military is entirely logical and a tactically sound decision. Iran has not refused international inspections and openly declares that it is working on enriching peaceful nuclear fuel.

But the Satanists are not satisfied even with the fact that Iran, under sanctions for over 40 years, has its own independent energy program.

After years of provocations and Zionist terrorist operations targeting Iranian military personnel and scientists, the Iranian authorities were left with no choice but to respond to Israel’s Satanic aggression—a country that dreams of turning the entire Middle East into a lifeless desert.

The international community must now raise a far more important global question:

How many nuclear warheads does Israel have, and why should its military nuclear program cause less concern than Iran’s peaceful one?"

Alexander Mercouris thinks that the current Goverment in Ukraine will sooner or later go into exile and form a pretend-Government in some western country. They will then demand funding and will try to join Nato as performance art. And their sole purpose will be yelling: "we da true true goberment of ukropistan"

Is he right ? Will the Zelensky reality show continue ?

>>490327
The Z-man is already transitioning from green combat fatigues to half-suits. He's trying desperately to become a respectable politician so his western handlers will decide to keep him around.

>>490328
oh dear, it's true, then.

Can this be avoided ? imagine how annoying this guy will become after a decade or more. The international embarrassment of it all.

Okay, what's this all about?

>>490337
virtue signaling with guns and bombs

>>490340
I'm thinking more like it's an attempt to force Australia into a geopolitical position it can't back out of, by getting Australians killed by Russian soldiers. Russia has said repeatedly now that it considers foreign soldiers in Ukraine to be legitimate targets.

>>490337
The butchers are running out of sacrificial Ukrainian meat, and are now trying to expand their meat collection operation into western countries. They can't do a draft because that would change the political landscape in the west in such a way that they get executed for treason. So they try to ease their way into normalizing the slaughter with small batches.

>>490341
You think it's a political trip-wire force ?
I doubt it will work.

>Russia has said repeatedly now that it considers foreign soldiers in Ukraine to be legitimate targets.
You are putting it mildly, the Russians treat soldiers from nato countries as priority targets, to be hunted and destroyed with maximum prejudice. It's a nope you're not sticking the nato flag on this hill type of sentiment.

>it's an attempt to force Australia into a geopolitical position it can't back out of, by getting Australians killed
So you think the neocons are trying to exploit the sunken cost fallacy ? And the sunken cost are 100 Aussies ?
Lets ignore the savageness of this calculation for a moment. Idk, the body bags that get send back post haste, have a political dissuasion effect also.

these rich western people do hate russians intensly, they would even support literal nazis for it. or maybe they themselves are nazis.

Is this stupid fucking war finally going to come to an end soon? Every time hear someone hyping up the next big Russian advance it seems like I get blueballed.

Looks like the Z-man's time is finally coming to a close. There's Maidan-style protests (likely with Maidan-style CIA support) outside the Z-man's office in Kiev against his attempts to take over an independent weapons procurement oversight agency. Some mainstream news sources on the protests:
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/young-ukrainians-find-new-voice-wartime-protests-2025-07-24/
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/22/protesters-in-ukraine-denounce-law-curbing-anticorruption-agencies

It seems like the CIA has gotten the word out to its mouthpieces because all the standard NATO propaganda rags seem to be turning on Zelensky and writing negative pieces about him at once now.

>>490675
What's the deal with the agencies?

>>490675
The Duran boys did a good piece on this yesterday. Apparently these two "oversight" agencies were set up by none of than Joe Biden after the Maidan coup. It's seems more like they were tools to control the presidency rather than anything legitimately stopping corruption.

I still don't understand how Russia plans to resolve this little Nazi problem when the war is over.

>>490818
Did Russia even really resolve its own Nazi problem?
Ukraine would be a bitch to hold onto in any case after all this.

>>490821
As John Mearsheimer says frequently, it would be like swallowing a porcupine for Russia. It's in Russia's interest to create a dysfunctional rump state out of what's left of Ukraine. The question is still how they plan to address the Nazi problem without taking direct control.

Trump is meeting Putin in Alaska on August 15:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/8/trump-announces-august-15-meet-up-with-putin-in-alaska-warns-of-land-swap

https://x.com/iwasnevrhere_/status/1953986952560070898
🇦🇲 🇷🇺 Armenia set plans to withdraw from CSTO by early 2026. US has secretly promised NATO membership to Armenia and Azerbaijan in recent meeting in White House. NATO access to Caspian sea will be facilitated by Zangezur corridor.

(The CSTO is Russian founded military alliance in Eurasia consisting of six post-Soviet states: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan.)

This is NATO staging a silent coup in the Caucasus, collapsing the CSTO’s flank and prying open Zangezur as a supply artery straight to the Caspian. It’s an Anglo-Atlantic push to sever Russia and Iran’s shared frontier depth, plant NATO flags on both banks, and pre-position the Caspian rim for encirclement without firing a shot.

Can't believe Putin is going to meet on US territory. I think that puts him in serious danger of being assassinated by a spook agency.

>>490882
Why? Nothing happens.

>>490882
Brian Berletic seems to share my worries here.

Key takeaways from the Trump/Putin summit in Alaska?
Here are mine at a glance, having barely watched this story:

1. Fucking nothing happened.
2. Trump seems to be practically begging for a renewed "Russian interference" circus to distract from him being on the list and heavily involved in the ongoing genocide in Palestine.
He has a deep desire to have people discuss something other than him actually being a pedophile.
3. "Anti-imperialist" 5D chess by Russia.
4. The US will use the ICC against you and then invite you over and not even arrest you.

>>490968
I have a suspicion that what's actually going on here is the US trying to use Ukraine as a bargaining chip to get Russia to backstab Iran.

Why do Soviet/Eastern Bloc states get called Soviet satellite states while Ukraine being NATO-supported is considered normal or praised?

"Today America's top military brass is huddled together in a nuclear-bomb proof shelter and the US and Poland have issued emergency instructions to their citizens to leave Belarus. I don't know what's up but should it be the balloon going up I want to say not goodbye but to curse those who filled it, those who fell for it and those who preferred a policy of silence, of pretending the biggest elephant in the room simply wasn't there."

- George Galloway today

So apparently Z-Lensky actually visited Raytheon right before his recent white house visit, in anticipation of free cruise missiles. The absolute balls on this panhandler.

New attack in Kiev.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/11/14/live-ukraines-capital-kyiv-comes-under-deadly-russian-attack

I can't believe this fucking bullshit war is still going on after another year. I really thought it was coming to an end around this time last year.

>>492267
It's so fucking stupid. It's looking like things are going to accelerate in 2026. I haven't been following this front closely, but we're headed into another economic disaster and that's liable to make all of this much worse.

Zelenskyy says Kyiv faces ‘difficult choice’ as Trump pushes for end to war
Ukrainian president says working on US plan to end war with Russia as European allies raise concerns about concessions.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his country risks losing its dignity and freedom — or Washington’s backing — as it mulls a United States plan to end the Russia-Ukraine war that observers say endorses many of Moscow’s demands.

In a speech delivered on Friday in the street outside his office, Zelenskyy appealed to Ukrainians for unity and said he would never betray Ukraine.

“Now is one of the most difficult moments of our history … Now, Ukraine can face a very difficult choice — either losing dignity or risk losing a major partner,” the Ukrainian leader said.

“I will fight 24/7 to ensure that at least two points in the plan are not overlooked – the dignity and freedom of Ukrainians,” he added.

Zelenskyy’s comments come as US President Donald Trump appears to have given Kyiv less than a week to agree to his 28-point proposal to end the war, nearly four years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.

Trump told Fox News Radio on Friday that he believed next Thursday was “an appropriate” deadline for Ukraine to accept the deal.

Citing two unnamed people familiar with the matter, the Reuters news agency reported that the Trump administration has threatened to cut Kyiv off from intelligence sharing and weapons supplies to pressure it into accepting the plan.

According to media reports this week, the US proposal includes several stipulations that Russia has been pushing for, including that Ukraine cede additional territory, curb the size of its military and be barred from joining NATO.

At the same time, the West would lift sanctions on Russia, and Moscow would be invited back into the Group of Eight (G8), which it was expelled from for seizing and annexing Crimea in 2014, the AFP news agency said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin called the US proposal “a new version” of what was discussed with Washington ahead of a summit in Alaska earlier this year.

Noting that Moscow had received the “modernised plan”, Putin said during a meeting of Russia’s National Security Council on Friday that he believed it “could form the basis for a final peace settlement”.

But the Russian leader said that the “text has not been discussed with us in any substantive way, and I can guess why”, adding that Washington has so far been unable to gain Kyiv’s consent.

“Ukraine is against it. Apparently, Ukraine and its European allies are still under illusions and dream of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia on the battlefield,” Putin said.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/21/zelenskyy-says-trumps-ukraine-plan-must-ensure-real-and-dignified-peace

>>492354
Things have been happening so fast the last several days I almost missed this. I guess Trump is just terrified of an embarrassing Afghanistan-style loss and wants to end this as soon as possible now. The Banderite Nazis aren't going to tolerate this, so what will be the fate of the Z-man? Is he finally going to hang from a lamppost in Kiev? It seems like all this NABU (an institution set up by the West) corruption "investigation" recently has been about putting pressure on the Z-man's administration. Is he finally finished or will his friends in Western spook agencies abscond him off to form a clown government in exile somewhere? There's no way Russia is going to agree to some of these stupid proposals, so it seems like a Kiev government collapse is still in the cards.

>>492383
I kind of suspect that Russia got this pressure/these US concessions in exchange for something in west Asia, but I could be wrong.

I don't rule out something underhanded occurring, because it seems like EU "leaders" are more than willing to help the US continue to prolong this less directly.

Russian power and heat station hit by drone attack
A major heat and power station in the Moscow region has been hit by a drone attack, triggering a fire and forcing backup power and heat to be switched on, the governor of the Moscow region said, while blaming Ukraine for carrying out the attack.

The attack on the Shatura electricity and heat station triggered a fire, Andrei Vorobyov said.

…

Moscow region governor, Andrei Vorobyov, said Ukrainian drones struck the Shatura Power Station, about 120km (75 miles) east of the Kremlin.

“Some of the drones were destroyed by air defence forces. Several fell on the territory of the station. A fire broke out at the facility. Now it is localised,” Vorobyov said.

More on drone attack in Moscow region
The Moscow region’s governor is convening a task force to determine next steps to restore infrastructure in Shatura after the drone attack on a local power plant, according to Russia’s TASS news agency.

“Water, sewer and electricity services in Shatura are operating normally. All measures are being taken to promptly restore heat,” Vorobyov was quoted as saying.

The report said the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Moscow region reported three transformers were on fire when the first fire and rescue unit arrived.

There has been no immediate comment from Ukraine on the attack.

The Shatura Power Station, one of Russia’s oldest, was founded under Vladimir Lenin after the Russian Revolution and used to run on peat. It now uses mostly natural gas.

In the fourth year of the conflict, both countries have been targeting one another’s energy infastructures.

Restrictions at Moscow airport after drones shot down
Russia’s Federal Air Navigation Service says temporary restrictions are in place at Moscow’s Vnukovo International Airport after three Ukrainian drones headed for the capital were shot down.

As we reported earlier, Kyiv struck​ the Shatura Power Station, a heat and power station ​​about 120km (75 miles) east of the Kremlin, in a major attack that ignited a fire and cut off heating to thousands of people.

Russia says it takes control of three villages in Ukraine
Russia’s Defence Ministry says its troops have captured three villages in two regions of Ukraine.

The villages are Tykhe and Odradne in the Dnipropetrovsk region and Petrivske in the Donetsk region.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/11/23/ukraine-live

Professor of applied economics Steve Hanke on estimating the level of embezzlement on Ukraine aid money:

https://xcancel.com/steve_hanke/status/1992313381592916130

Guys i think Russia is about to take tge Dombass

https://x.com/Megatron_ron/status/1995272011271360964
🇸🇳🇷🇺A third Russian shadow vessel was struck by USVs, this time off the coast of Senegal.

The tanker is currently sinking.

Britain's ruling class seems to be so desperate to keep this war going that they've actually decided to revive the old Skripal hoax, this time attempting to lend credibility to it by citing some of the worst clowns in the United States behind the Russiagate hoax.

https://x.com/Currentreport1/status/1997005145234895305
Earlier today a Ukrainian drone struck a high-rise building 1500 km inside Russia, housing key Chechen government offices.

In response Chechen commander Ramzan Kadyrov warned 'Our response will not take long, the enemy will soon receive my personal gift'

>>492564
Elaborate?

It's kinda funny that there are still people calling this a "Special Military Operation" when it's nearing 4 years of the most intense continuous period of war since Maidan and the annexation of Crimea in 2014.

https://x.com/RT_com/status/1997423746337116211
RT - HUGE explosions rock Fastov, Kiev as strikes slam Ukraine

Power outages up to 11 hours hit the capital

Russia hitting back after Kiev’s strikes on civilian sites

>>492576
It still makes some degree of sense because Russia could have done far worse Ukraine years ago if they had used all the military tools at their disposal and did things like decapitation strikes. The point was never to completely obliterate Ukraine though, it was to dismantle the Ukrainian military and exhaust NATO's arms supplies.

Russian attacks cut power for thousands in Ukraine as peace talks press on
A ceasefire deal appears distant as energy facilities are hit in Ukraine and Russia says a drone has killed two people.

Russian attacks have left thousands without power in Ukraine, while a drone attack killed two people in Russia, as United States-led peace talks on ending the war, deep in its fourth year, press on.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday that Russian night-time attacks damaged more than a dozen civilian facilities, disrupting power in seven regions.

…

Russian authorities in the southwestern Saratov region, home to an important Russian army base, said a drone killed two people and damaged a residential building. Several windows were also blown out at a kindergarten and clinic.

Russia’s Ministry of Defence said it had shot down 41 Ukrainian drones over Russian territory overnight.

The latest round of attacks came after Kremlin adviser Yury Ushakov said on Friday that Russian police and National Guard will stay on in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas, which comprises the fiercely contested Donetsk and Luhansk regions, and oversee the industry-rich region, even if a peace settlement ends Russia’s nearly four-year war in Ukraine.

Ukraine has rejected Moscow’s demands to maintain its presence in Donbas post-war as US-led negotiations drag on.

…

In the absence of a breakthrough in negotiations to end the conflict, hostilities recently intensified in the Black Sea, with Russian forces attacking two Ukrainian ports and damaging three Turkish-owned vessels, including a ship carrying food supplies.

An attack on the city of Odesa on Friday caused grain silos to catch fire at the port, according to Ukrainian deputy prime minister and reconstruction minister, Oleksii Kuleba. Posting video footage on social media of firefighters tackling a blaze on board what he described as a “civilian vessel” in Chornomorsk, Zelenskyy said the Russian attacks “had no … military purpose whatsoever”.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/13/russian-attacks-cut-power-for-thousands-in-ukraine-as-peace-talks-press-on