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Russia Mops Up Pokrovsk Kupiansk Cauldrons; Mocks Zelensky; Works On Hypersonic N-Powered Missiles

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

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Mamdani wins, DEMs sweep. Trump, Venezuela military options. Ukraine military angry with Zelensky

Mamdani wins, DEMs sweep. Trump, Venezuela military options. Ukraine military angry with Zelensky
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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 ...

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Brazil’s Lula, Vía Campesina Reject US Threats as Trump Weighs Venezuela ‘Options’

Trump is reportedly weighing options in Venezuela, including potential actions targeting oil fields, military infrastructure and high‑level leadership.

Andreína Chávez Alava
November 5, 2025

Caracas, November 5, 2025 (venezuelanalysis.com) – The US military build-up in the Caribbean is facing growing international opposition, while the Trump administration continues to send out mixed messages amid threats against Venezuela.

Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva, rejected the idea of a “ground invasion” of Venezuela, defending the region’s “zone of peace” status, which was declared by the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) in 2014.

“I don’t want us to resort to a ground invasion. I told President Trump that political problems aren’t solved with weapons. They are solved through dialogue,” Lula said to reporters Tuesday. He added that the upcoming IV...

June 17, 2024
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A quick commentary on the "Piss Summit"
I might not be able to upload much more or do lives for a while

My Fellow Duranianss.

Yes, it's happened again. I have been assaulted by a vicious Malware Bot Virus or whatever 911 Socks is and this thing is bad ! 

However I wanted to give you a "peace" of my mind concerning the "Piece" or piss, as Elensky calls it, as this thing fell to pieces before it even happened.

Coincidentally on the very SAME DAY  this crap happened Saudi Arabia DROPPED the US Petrodollar as a buying currency and NO ONE absolutely NO ONE is talking about this fact anywhere !!!

 

Hope to see you all asap.

 

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September 29, 2023
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Locals will be sunsetting the private messaging feature throughout the Locals website. In order to keep our private messaging active we have created a private Telegram messaging group called 'The Duran Locals.'

This is a private channel open only to our Locals subscriber community. In the private Telegram group you can send a message to the group or a private message to Alex or Alexander via a direct Telegram message. 

You can access Telegram for web, desktop or mobile here: https://telegram.org/

The link for this Telegram group is below (can be viewed by community subscribers).

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