/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>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

It amazes me that people are so brainwashed that they never stopped to ask why their western government even supports Ukraine in this conflict. Where does their allegiance to Ukraine even come from? Up until the 90's they were part of the USSR, they couldn't have built up good relations that quickly. They can't point to any treaty they signed, and Ukraine isn't part of NATO, so why are people uncritically supporting them?

It seems to me that ignorance tends to side with fascism. And now the west is completely rotten with it.

>>492704
Russia's salami slicing of Europe can't be let happen without consequence.
It had to be stopped in Ukraine, before it reached Europe proper.

The west is rotten, but Russia is an abject hellhole for the people. America's 'shock therapy' meant it basically internalised all the evil of late stage capitalism in one quick hit.

>>492721
I don't agree with what Russia did, but I really doubt that they would have gone further.

It's also entirely evident that the EU is already effectively controlled by the US, and is even more insanely Zionist than Russia itself. EU foreign policy largely prioritizes the interests of the American state at this point, and with that in mind… why wouldn't Russia want to express similar influence over its direct neighbors? Especially when the US is backing coups in these countries - it doesn't justify this stupid war, but it's still weird to tolerate this kind of thing from the US, but not from Russia.

>>492721
I can't tell if this is just an ironic representation of an unhinged NATO/EU leader's screed about Russia, or someone who actually believes their bullshit.

Car bomb kills Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov in Moscow.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/12/22/russia-ukraine-war-live-moscow-probes-kyiv-link-after-bomb-kills-general

>>492873
It kind of feels like Russia is as devoted to wasting Russia's time and resources as NATO is.

Medvedev 2 hours ago: "The stinking Kiev bastard is trying to derail the settlement of the conflict. He wants war. Well, now at least he’ll have to stay in hiding for the rest of his worthless life."https://x.com/MedvedevRussiaE/status/2005722429772247176

>>492993
https://x.com/M_Simonyan/status/2005668567069651191
Lavrov: On the night of December 28-29 the Kiev regime launched a terrorist attack on President Putin's residence in Novgorod with 91 long-range UAVs.

Such actions will not go unpunished. Targets and time for retaliatory strikes have been selected by the Russian Armed Forces.

>>492993
>>493006
The sad thing is it is the Ukrainian people who continue to pay for this CIA rat's games.

>>493006
https://x.com/Alex_Oloyede2/status/2006005446205923389
The mysterious soviet “Doomsday” radio station UVB-76 unexpectedly began playing Swan Lake.

This comes moments after promised retaliation by Moscow against Kiev.

>>493056
Am I gonna die?

>>493057
Eventually, yes.
Probably soon.
Maybe tomorrow.

>>493056
it's just pirates.
also, if you think uvb-76 is nothing else than a channel for spies you are retarded

>>493439
I read that the last time they played this was before the unrest in the '90s.

https://x.com/MenchOsint/status/2009391265016680774
Jan 8th, 5:26PM EST, MenchOsint: Around 50 Geran Kamikaze Drones flying towards Kiev tonight.

Ukraine calls on allies to raise pressure as Russia fires Oreshnik missile
Kyiv labelled the use of the weapon close to the EU and NATO border a ‘grave threat’ to European security.

Kyiv has called on its allies to increase pressure on Russia after Moscow used a newly developed missile in strikes on western Ukraine.

Russia said on Friday that it had used the Oreshnik missile amid a barrage of overnight strikes on Kyiv and Lviv in western Ukraine. Kyiv labelled the use of the weapon close to the European Union and NATO border a “grave threat” to European security.

Russia’s Ministry of Defence said the military has used the new intermediate-range ballistic missile among hundreds of other weapons in strikes that, according to Ukraine, killed four people and injured at least 22 in the capital.

…

Russia also struck critical infrastructure in Lviv using an unidentified ballistic missile, said Mayor Andriy Sadovyi.

Ukraine’s Air Force later said the missile travelled at a speed of 13,000km/h (more than 8,000mph) and that the specific type of rocket was being investigated.

Moscow first fired an Oreshnik – Russian for hazel tree – against what it said was a military factory ‌in Ukraine in November 2024. On that occasion, Ukrainian sources said the missile was carrying dummy ‌warheads, not explosives, and caused limited damage.

Putin has ⁠said that the intermediate-range Oreshnik missile is impossible to intercept because of speeds reportedly more than 10 times the speed of sound and that its destructive power is ‌comparable with that of a nuclear weapon, even when fitted with a conventional warhead.

Some Western officials have expressed scepticism, suggesting that the weapon is not seen as a game-changer on the battlefield.

The Defence Ministry in Moscow said that the attack was in retaliation for a Ukrainian drone strike on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s residence last month.

Ukraine and United States President Donald Trump have both rejected the Russian claim of the attack on Putin’s residence.

The ministry said the latest strike also involved other ground and sea-launched missiles to target Ukraine’s critical infrastructure.

“Such a strike close to [the] EU and NATO border is a grave threat to the security on the European continent and a test for the transatlantic community. We demand strong responses to Russia’s reckless actions,” Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha wrote on social media.

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Ukraine’s appeal to raise the pressure on Russia comes as it continues to discuss efforts to end the nearly four-year-long war with European and United States allies.

An agreement was reached this week that Europe would deploy troops after any ceasefire, but Russia on Thursday rejected the plan.

Such troops would be “considered legitimate military targets”, Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Maria Zakharova warned, branding Ukraine and its allies an “axis of war”.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/9/ukraine-calls-on-allies-to-raise-pressure-as-russia-fires-oreshnik-missile

MenchOsint - An Ukrainian Air Force F-16 was reportedly shot down by a Russian S-300 air defense system.