Russia Mops Up Pokrovsk Kupiansk Cauldrons; Mocks Zelensky; Works On Hypersonic N-Powered Missiles
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Final push to the Dniepr river w/ Stanislav Krapivnik

Mamdani wins, DEMs sweep. Trump, Venezuela military options. Ukraine military angry with Zelensky
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The Duran: Episode 961
France's Marine Le Pen Acquitted in Case Over Violating Hate Speech Laws
https://sputniknews.com/europe/202105041082797685-frances-marine-le-pen-acquitted-in-case-over-violating-hate-speech-laws/

The big topic is the imminent fall of Pokrovsk and Ukraine's growing military crisis. The media in the West are falling silent about it and about the war generally, which in a sense shows how critical the situation has become.

There is also the ongoing collapse of the arms control regime laboriously set up after painstaking negotiations by the US and the USSR during the Cold War. It staggers me how little attention this is getting.

Meanwhile Russia is introducing wholly new weapons systems and promising others in what is rapidly becoming a nuclear arms race in which it is setting a cracking pace. There is also minimal discussion about this in the West, and no discussion at all of the revolutionary implications, civilian as well as well military, of the technological breakthroughs the Russians have achieved.

Lastly, there are accumulating reasons to think that the US economy is already in (quite deep) recession and that the reality of this is being masked by what many now think ...

FOO IN THE ROOM!
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Update: November 5-6, 2025

NETHERLANDS FOR THE HIGH-JUMP? CHINA THINKS SO, AND MAY MAKE IT SO ! | Furious China Slams Dutch Seizure, Bessent Teases Beijing With Chips, RMB Internationalization!

The Nexperia scandal. The country that produced the clown masquerading as the current NATO Secretary general Mark Rutte is responsible for the Nexperia “takeover”. The great comedian of the 1930s W.C. Fields said abut suckers: “There is one born every minute!” and it appears Netherlands make them a full-time occupation.

The mont of irony was when China took over the Nexperia manufacturing arm and hold the entire production line and existing stock under government jurisdiction. Meaning they have their hands on the throat of Nexperia and by default the Netherlands government.

Shocked that Chinese government would retaliate with such ferocity, the potical class in The Hague, the political capital, are embarrassed with humiliation at being accused of corporate ...