At sporadic times of inconsequential normalcy, on the streets of Russia you will see two distinct types of people asked for identification, Asians and middle eastern males. When asked why, the average, ordinary grey-person in Russia going about their business, ambivalently has no idea.
Russia is a massive country.
To the southeast they are bordered by China, Mongolia and Asia, they even have a small border with North Korea. To the southwest they have the “stans,” most notably Kazakhstan; this region is the source of most domestic terrorists who attack inside Russia. To the West they have Ukraine and the EU nations.
From the standpoint of Russia, they have Asians on their East, Arabs on their South and EU supported Nazis on their Western flank. Keep in mind, despite the breakup of the Soviet Union the muscle memory from World War II is still very much a part of their social compact.
Consider Arlington Cemetary for scale. If you were to build a cemetery just from the battle of Leningrad (now St Petersburg) it would be bigger than Washington DC. If you were to build an Arlington type cemetery for all the Russians killed in World War II, the 27 million gravesites would envelop a landmass bigger than Washington DC and the state of Virginia combined. These realities underpin Russian perspectives.
CTH shared previously that Russia is drawn into an alignment with China not by desire, but rather by necessity. Most ordinary Russians do not like China, and they would prefer not to purchase Chinese industrial or manufactured goods. Russian President Vladimir Putin is well aware of this, and I believe U.S. President Donald Trump is aware also.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said publicly it should be U.S. policy to support separating the two biggest nuclear powers, China and Russia as a matter of strategic U.S. interest. President Trump said, “I’m going to have to un-unite them, and I think I can do that, too,” shortly before his election in November. “I have to un-unite them.” {link}
In a very downplayed statement earlier this year hidden by media, the former Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and current Secretary of State -also National Security Advisor- Marco Rubio, said “Ukraine was a proxy war for the United States against Russia.” Despite the U.S. media intentionally hiding the statement, Moscow immediately noticed and affirmed the accuracy.
Ukraine launched a covert attack against Russian air force bases last Sunday June 1st. President Trump was not informed of the attack in advance and was unaware it was going to take place. In the aftermath, President Trump and Secretary Rubio stayed quiet.
Three days after the attack, Wednesday, June 4, President Trump held a 90-minute phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Last week the New York Times received “an eight-page internal F.S.B. planning document” … “that sets priorities for fending off Chinese espionage.”
[…] Ares Leaks, a cybercrime group, obtained the document but did not say how it did so. That makes definitive authentication impossible, but The Times shared the report with six Western intelligence agencies, all of which assessed it to be authentic. The document gives the most detailed behind-the-scenes view to date of Russian counterintelligence’s thinking about China.
[…] Russia has survived years of Western financial sanctions following the invasion, proving wrong the many politicians and experts who predicted the collapse of the country’s economy.
[…] The Russian document describes a “tense and dynamically developing” intelligence battle in the shadows between the two outwardly friendly nations.
[…] Read one way, the F.S.B. document lends credence to the theory that, with the right approach, Russia can be cleaved away from China. The document describes mistrust and suspicion on both sides of the relationship. (more)
CTH will repeat prior outlines based on available public data as well as my research trip into the current disposition of Russia. The Russian Federation and the Russian people do not want deepening ties with China.
Despite people from the Eastern side of Russia often being called Asians, even within Russia they are known as Asian-Russians, they do not align with a Chinese worldview. One of the key positive characteristics of Russia is the lack of pretending both in government and in the people. Russians do not describe China as the panda; they have very clear eyes and see the dragon behind the panda mask.
From the Southeast Russia has Chinese espionage pressure points; from the Southwest Russia has Arab terrorist pressure points; from the West Russia has EU/Nazi NATO pressure points, and the CIA has activated strategies to stimulate all these agitations.
All of my political instincts tell me that President Putin and President Trump are in alignment. The challenge for President Trump is to overcome the opposition forces from within Western government (NATO) and Western media.
When President Trump and President Putin come into open alignment, the entire world changes.
Their opposition knows this.
Read the article first. Thanks.
Who has time for that?
I just did. I am now wondering whether my takeaway is correct:
Seems to me it’s a good thing that this truth is slowly coming to light. Therefore I don’t care what the Slimes said or did not say about it.
Hitting a paywall sorry.
There is no paywall on CTH
Paywall at the NYT
I didn’t get a paywall. Clicked on “more” at the end of the last quoted paragraph (last paragraph in italics). Did not click on words New York Times.
That’s what I did and read the article for free.
Was asked if I wanted to get a 7 day free trial but I just ignored that and kept on scrolling down.
Interesting article, worth the time to read it.
They want my email and to set up an account.
Same here tried both links.
They have always done that. I just don’t comply with their instuctions
“We are having trouble retrieving the article content.
Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.”
If you can, check to ‘temp trusted’ for nytimes.com and none, of anything else including “nyt.com”
May not work if you using android or other mobile devices. This works on desktops using only Firefox which changes your settings, so you need to go through all the settings to make sure you have them the way you want for things to work. Google and utube are big culprits where if videos play from a link from here; it will not play or it stops within a min and nothing can play after that. Wikipaedia seems to have replaced Google with all promoting/propaganda narratives although after sharing that info, recent utube videos from e.g FoxNews stops with “Something went wrong. Refresh or try again later. Learn more
They have always done that. I just don’t comply with their instuctions
“We are having trouble retrieving the article content.
Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.”
If you can, check to ‘temp trusted’ for nytimes.com and none, of anything else including “nyt.com”
May not work if you using android or other mobile devices. This works on desktops using only Firefox which changes your settings, so you need to go through all the settings to make sure you have them the way you want for things to work. Google and utube are big culprits where if videos play from a link from here; it will not play or it stops within a min and nothing can play after that. Wikipaedia seems to have replaced Google with all promoting/propaganda narratives although after sharing that info, recent utube videos from e.g FoxNews stops with “Something went wrong. Refresh or try again later. Learn more
For the video to continue you have to block installation of add-ons, override desktop shortcuts, share the screen, set cookies for this session only, allow video and audio on that site etc, store data in persistent storage and all midi synth devices under Permissions.
I found the NYT article here:
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/09/world/politics/russia-suspicion-china/
Thanks. Bonus: There are no cookies!
Yes, that is where many sites use for source no utube video links
Camp david will yield fantastic history…
I pray
The U.S. and Russia are natural allies. Russia and China not so much. If Trump and Putin are able to develop an alliance it would benefit everyone greatly. There is no need to make China an enemy of either, but an alliance of Russia and the U.S. would keep China in check and allow all to prosper.
It’s damned ridiculous that we don’t have a normalized alliance with Russia.
Someone has zero problem with Ukrainians and Russians slaughtering each other…no matter that they look almost identical to each other…
Thank you. IMO it seems practical and doable. When I bring it up in conversation, I usually get yelled at.
Exactly and from a fellow Virginian, lol. The Russian and American people are natural allies. The deep state must stop this at all costs.
I hope that each representative from Russia was given a copy of The Bear and The Dragon by Tom Clancy.
If we can get around the warmongers, respectful relations with Russia is better for each nation and the world.
When I was a young man, Russian women were portrayed as WWE wrestlers in size. If I had only known the truth back then. I think a little cultural exchange with our younger generations could really cement a long term commitment.
ha ha ha. my husband’s fishing vessel was cooperating with a Russian processor. the voice from Russian vessel was husky, sexy and Olga. big party on Russian vessel revealed Olga to be WWE wrestler in size and very hairy.
Oh yes, we eastern European girls have something special. Look at Melania.
Ukraine’s president was criticized when he was first elected, for describing beautiful women as that country’s brand.
LOL, first thing that came to my mind!
“…..a little cultural exchange with our younger generations could really cement a long term commitment.”
I’ve long maintained that it wasn’t Reagan or Gorbachev that took down the Berlin wall. It was some enterprising young lads that tossed a couple of cheeseburgers and a pair of jeans over the wall. Once Comrade had a taste of American food, and saw what a girl looks like in a pair of form fittin’ Levis, well…..down comes the wall ’cause they want lots more of that!
More like a carton of cigarettes and some porn. Exactly what we used to trade with Soviet border guards for badges and uniform parts, when making the trip from Berlin to the West via Checkpoints Bravo and Alpha.
I remember Leonid Brezhnev’s wife.
I also remember his “secretary.”
Yes. Anyone remember the Wendy’s Russian Fashion Show commercial? Hysterical, but they had to pull it, and this was before woke.
Yes!!! That was hysterical!
And now it is America that is predominantly that body shape while Russia’s women are typically healthy.
Sooo many fat any morbidly obese people here. Half the office staff at my place is totally fat with about half of them morbidly so.
Once upon a time there was a spandex police but they must have been defunded.
Truthfully, that was more the reputation of the East German women, not so much the Russians.
What is the “BS” you are referencing?
Please read the article first.
To everyone else, I will be deleting and blocking these users for obvious reasons.
We are not a clickbait headline site. Invest the time to understand and hold intelligent discourse in the comments section, or go elsewhere.
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Thank you!
Earlier this morning I was just thinking that TCTH may be the only stellar information source.
Nothing else compares.
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Absolutely!!!! This is why we must *donate* to CTH regularly (I do)….
I agree wholeheartedly. It’s CTH, a trusted perspective, and C-Span for primary source.
Thank you Sun Please know my family and I pray for your protection. You are one of the most important sites in these last days.
Agreed wholeheartedly! I go to quite a few sites during the day, and they are all, just about, what I call “surface information.” It’s like they’re mimicking each other, hoping to get first place of some unknown award.
Long past due.
Indeed
Thank you. True.
I read every word. Thanks Sundance…
Did you have to sign up @ NYT?
They wanted me to do that….
Me too, but I didn’t.
Good, re blocking. I recognize this guys name. Always with the negative vibes, man.
Roger that thanks Sundance
Excellent! Personally, 100% approved
Read the article first.
Thank you sundance!
Very glad you’re doing this. It wasn’t by any means a long read.
I took a Poli Sci course at Cal State San Bernardino from someone who was in Naval Intelligence.
You could name a country and he knew the background info, any country.
He talked about how the arbitrary lines drawn at the end of WWII cut off people who had from in common with each other than their new borders.
Think of a river valley. The river is an easy border but people on either side have a lot of historical connection with each other.
A mountain peak is an easy border but those living at certain elevations have more in common with each other than “flat landers”. That’s the Iraqi Kurd problem, higher altitude, different climate has different needs and values.
The current “status quo” is less than a century old. Will it maintain or need a shake up??
Most of the former British colonies are less successful after getting independence in the 50’s and 60’s, would those people have been better off with a strong monarch who actually ruled the empire as opposed to ceremonial figurehead?
Interesting.. the eighty nine year old patriarch of family we were friendly with, who we thought was German.
Informed us several years back that his country of birth was Prussia.
He may have even said it was East Prussia.
Cheers!
Dekester, that is not precisely on the topic of this thread, but while in college as an older person I discovered that most educated people have NO IDEA about the “ethnic cleansing” of Germans out of Eastern Europe, about 15 million people were either killed or pushed out of former homelands, mostly into Western Germany.
In the same time period, 1944-1950, millions of Indians were displaced when the Islamic Republic of Pakistan was created for Muslims only.
These same educated people act distraught over the founding of Israel, “The Nakba”.
Our educated class is largely dishonest, ignorant, unprincipled, and divisive.
I don’t want to hurt Chinese people. Or Russian people. Or German people. Or anyone really, although I also don’t want to ge left defenseless against psychopath leadership.
That explains the India-Pakistan issues!!
There’s always a historical back story.
A former coworker in NYC came from India. He described how, during the Partition of India, over 50 members of his family were slaughtered by bloodthirsty religious fanatics. It must have been hideous, but this part of history has been excluded from American consciousness (TV, movies, school classes)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_India
“would those people have been better off with a strong monarch who actually ruled the empire”
The countries we overthrew the past ~20 years were better off.
Hence HRC’s comment on the death of Libya’s leader.
The strongmen used their nations resources to better their nation and retain power. Their attitude towards the multinational corporations seeking to exploit their country’s resources for profit was
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So the billionaire oligarchs used our covert & overt military resources to eliminate them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfowitz_Doctrine
Goes back to days of creating “Banana Republics” and even longer ago than that.
Governments just can’t play nice with each other, and it’s the little guys who pay…
Yes, I know
Hence the wiki link.
I wanted to keep it short & sweet
Christianity too, apart from it’s abuse of power by high priests and kings, is usually a uniting force between different cultures.
Yes, Trump and Putin are in alignment, but Trump does not have control of what is theoretically “his” government. Every time he has tried to negotiate peace, the deep state has stepped up attacks on Russia, including the recent outrageous attack on strategic bombers that are required to be parked out in the open. Just a few days ago, Mike Pompeo, former CIA, Director and Secretary of State, was seen in Ukraine conducting the deep state’s foreign policy, ignoring the elected president, and making clear to the whole world that Trump is a spectator with no power over what is happening in Ukraine.
Hmm – well at this point I would echo sd, and say read the other article.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/06/08/president-trump-and-marco-rubio-head-to-camp-david/
Doesn’t discount the Deep Statist Cia CW within this country.
Pompeo, Graham, Blumenthal guite a NWO crew
“Trump is a spectator with no power over what is happening in Ukraine.”
LOL
Yep. None. Not even a teeny itty bitty bit. He’s so powerless that all that time, $$, indictments, and effort to keep him out of the WH a 2nd time was just for show. Yes, you are correct. LOL
If he had any power he would send missiles intended for Ukraine to the middle east or somewhere.
Yep, no control.
If you ever want to insult a Russian, telling ’em that Russia is an Asiatic country is the way to go.
I will say it again…..IMHO
I would rather be an ally of
Russia than any European
country. Exception Hungary
and Slovakia.
China has never even been an
option to consider being an ally.
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Our own US government is deeply involved in China, communist leadership and all. Think Fauci and his criminal installation of a bioweapons lab in an enormously populated central city of China, Wuhan. That required cooperation not only from CCP but also evil leadership in the United States. Many innocents in Wuhan suffered and died. I didn’t vote for that
Polish people love us. The good us.
Let’s hope Poland gets Galicia back.
Hungary and Romania would be better stewards of their historic chunks of the Ukraine than what passes for a country under the Kiev regime.
An alliance with Russia would create the largest and most successful trading block in the world, regarding agriculture, petroleum and all it’s byproducts, plus minerals. We should be aligned with them and the War mongers and neocons can’t stand the thought of us being close associates. Russia is not the communist USSR. Remember, The NY Times is the unofficial mouthpiece of the CIA, perpatrator of all things evil throughout the world aligning against the interests of MAGA/conservative USA.
I have stated your points previously and also we would dominate the world strategically and militarily.
The people who need Russia as an enemy are the Democrats. The Democrats, via Ukraine, created the whole Russia as an enemy only to stop Trump and to make money. Ukraine has done more damage to the Western world than any other country. They and the Democrats want Russia as an enemy only to stop Trump and they are happy to drag the whole world to the brink of nuclear annihilation to do so. It took a special kind of strategic stupid to force Russia into China’s arms, but the Democrats did this just to stop Trump.
Now they want to start a civil war over deporting illegal immigrants just to stop Trump. The Democrats are evil. They are blinded by their hatred of Trump and the people he represents. That blindness allows them to pursue any measure or any action no matter how dangerous or reckless it is. Sadly, a huge swathe of people in the USA agree with the Democrats, especially those aligned to illegal immigrants and their interests.
The Democrat work for the EU / British globalists who are short on actual energy…. (which Russia has) when you follow the actual loop, the connections are obvious.
Frankly, I do not see how the media could survive w/o Russia. Only President Trump and Vlad give them any credence and that, of course, is false.
My take away, historically, it is the British and by extension the EU that needs Russia to be the enemy.
Somehow, someway, praying that President Trump and his Sec. of State Rubio find that fissure, that crack, that opening that can finally find a way to sever the past histories of those nations and find an honest way to build a new foundation for generations to come.
Letting go of the past is the one unique requirement for people coming to the United States and is what all these one-worlders have never understood.
Tribal memories are indeed hard to break loose from, but if there is to be an earth for future generations to live on without having had the planet either nu ked or mRNA’d to oblivion, there must be an answer found to knock this stuff off. And it starts with the British and the Europeans to stop these wretched games of theirs.
After that, China will take care of itself. Too many of its citizens have now lived in other nations and see that communism is not their nation’s future either and it will be up to them to deal with their own – if we are lucky.
I don’t think it’s a “special kind of stupid” but a strategic move by Chinese communists and their bought and paid for congress critters to economically strengthen China and weaken America.
I think the Democrats never forgave Russia for giving up on Communism.
If North Korea ever abandons Communism, the Democrats will be angry at them, too.
democRats are Bolsheviks, rinoRats are Quislings
BOTH are RATS and Grifter Criminals
Think you might find the Rs are more against Russia than you think; The Bush Cartel/neocons have to have a boogeyman and they have chosen Russia! They have chosen China, a totally communistic country as the favored ally to US!! AND they try to pen Trump as a Russia ‘lover’……..
The UNIPARTY would probably fit the bill as the most likely to use Russia as an enemy to be fearful of. IMHO
John, the Globalists cannot allow a nationalistic Russia to exist. They want to remove Putin and foster internal disorder so that they can move into control and remove the national identity of the Russian people. Trump stands in their way in this hemisphere in the same way and so they are at war with him also. Destruction of the national identity and solidarity of the people of the USA and Russia are necessary chores for the Globalist movement. The objective is complete power and control. The money flows from that objective.
You might check your math. Arlington Cemetery is approximately 1.5 Square miles and holds 400,000 graves. 27 million graves would take 67.5 square miles, or approximately the same as Washington DC, at 68.3 Square miles.
Correct.
I ran the calculations too. I find Arlington Cemetery to be about 1 square mile, not 1.5. Using 1 square mile I get the same result as you did. These are stunning numbers by themselves and would in no way weaken the argument of the article.
Miss Lindsey as unappointed pot stirrer during his Ukraine visit threatened China with 500% tariffs if they continued to purchase Russia oil.
Wonder how much traction that’s getting today in London 😎
It is on Anthony Weiner’s laptop, downloaded from HC bathroom server. She got it from Nelly Ore, thanks to Samantha.
Weiners laptop contents made NYPD murder detectives Puke. Must be something
That didn’t happen.
It was just a rumor.
I think Hillary started it.
“The 27 million gravesites would envelop a landmass bigger than Washington DC and the states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia combined.”
This is a deeply impactful and sobering image that helps frame an aspect of the Russian psyche for the average Westerner. Thank you.
The math is way off.
I concur. If done correctly it’s a lay up for Trump.
“When President Trump and President Putin come into open alignment, the entire world changes.
Their opposition knows this.”
Hence all the “drama” to keep them apart since 2016.
I put drama in quotes because listing all the opposition would require an essay or way more links to posts here on CTH that I have available.
In the late 1980s, I hired some refugees from the Soviet Union and later in early 90s was asked to purchase some police cars and equipment for a major Russian city after the Soviet Union broke up. Those people all loved America and only wanted American products. Our country has squandered this opportunity to make Russia one of our greatest allies and trading partners in my opinion based on my personal experience.
Remember when Levi jeans were the big status symbol in Russia?
given that north Korea is a proxy unit of China, my question is why would Russia invite north Korea military combatants to fight against Ukraine? Is this also “out of necessity””?
strange world.
God Bless America
Excellent question!
I wondered at the time, and still wonder, whether Russia actually invited North Korea to provide troops, or if Kim didn’t offer troops so that his military could acquire some combat experience and maybe get them back with some up-to-date arms? Kim may have a very large military relative to the size of his population, but it was also completely inexperienced in modern war and possesses great quantities of obsolescent equipment, a lot of it literally of WW2-era manufacture.
from my understanding, the NK soldiers were dematerialized OR deserted. Of course, I really don’t know…most of the information was published by the usual suspects so it may be untrue.
the first casualty of war? truth
God Bless America
Heard that too. Of course, if you were a NK private and you found yourself in a foreign country and saw an opportunity to bolt or die for someone else’s cause, wouldn’t you bolt? Your family back home might not fare too well, but it might be the only chance you ever get and your thoughts on the matter might be very narrowly focused.
North Koreans have fought alongside Syrians in every war against Israel. Probably elsewhere, too. Not publicized, but Koreans know the value of blooded troops.
What if NorK is really China’s slave, a dog it doesn’t trust unmuzzled?
What if Fat Boy secretly loves Russia? [And PT!!] Could it be freed?
……Just a thought……
One would be well advised to take anything published in the NYT with a healthy dose of skepticism. Particularly when it comes to things Russia. The Slimes has never apologized for Walter Duranty’s whitewashing of famine in Russia and dire straits found there, instead, he reported that it was a “worker’s paradise.” Yeah, right.
FSB – The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation.
“The document gives the most detailed behind-the-scenes view to date of Russian counterintelligence’s thinking about China… Read one way, the F.S.B. document lends credence to the theory that, with the right approach, Russia can be cleaved away from China. The document describes mistrust and suspicion on both sides of the relationship.”
Read another way, using that “right approach” may be compromised by this revelation to China (assuming the didn’t already HAVE this document) of Russia’s beefs with and intel on them. The Blob doesn’t want Russia to become more aligned or even friendlier with the US since their (hopeless) goal is regime change there and this Russian pseudo-alliance with China certainly wasn’t unforeseen by them. Why else would the NYT publish this other than to harm that possibility of Russia-US rapprochement.
Is it possible that the Camp David meetings are at least partially associated with the forging of an alliance between President Trump and President Putin? Sundance has alluded to that possibility.
I pray that God would give each of these presidents courage and wisdom so that God’s they would proceed according to God’s will.
In reality, sanctions against Russia benefit China.
Certain US politicians are pushing those sanctions. So who are these politicians being bought off by?
Unfortunately and most likely, the list of economic influencers is long and working on multiple fronts to wreck the US in favor of their specific agendas.
It seems unlikely to me that China, arms manufacturers, etc are coordinating their efforts. In my mind, the coordination is at the spiritual level and aims to destroy Christians all over the world by as many means available.
If you’ve ever read Frank Perretti’s “This Present Darkness,” this idea makes sense [even tho the book is fiction].
“Consider Arlington Cemetary for scale. If you were to build a cemetery just from the battle of Leningrad (now St Petersburg) it would be bigger than Washington DC. If you were to build an Arlington type cemetery for all the Russians killed in World War II, the 27 million gravesites would envelop a landmass bigger than Washington DC and the states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia combined. These realities underpin Russian perspectives.” – Sundance
That statement took my breath away! I was shocked, stunned! I knew the Russians lost a lot of their miliary in WWII but that put it in a perspective I never had before. I don’t hate Putin or the Russians so I pray President Trump is successful in getting a peace agreement and then a reproachment with Russia!!! The ChiComs are an existential to America!!! Godspeed Sundance!!!
The Bush Cartel favoring the NWO decided that China was to be the ‘favored’ US ally to push their formula for world governance/communism IMHO. There by making Russia the boogeyman/enemy in the scheme of things.
The Russian people have thrown off a monarchy, invasions from all adjoining nations, communism, 2 WWs, AND kept WWlll off their doorstep. The numbers of deaths in this article were even staggering to me. They’ve lost a lot and yet maintained a decent population.
The US involvement in the Middle East was to be the breaking of Russia’s back so to speak IMHO; Russia’s mission in the ME was to save Christians, not acquire land or take over those countries. Heck they got rid of Heroin production in Afghanistan. Russia’s mission in Africa is also centered on saving Christians.
ALL US hostilities against Russia, including the war in Ukraine have been to benefit China and it’s relations to US. How’s that working out??
God Help US
How’s that working out?
That “business model” has made hundreds-perhaps thousands-of UniParty/Deep State functionaries and their billionaire masters filthy rich.
Not so good for “we the people.”
So now we’re back to believing the New York Times?
It wasn’t China that propped up a drunken fool (Yeltsin) so American oligarchs could raid Russia’s resources. That would be Americans such as Larry Summers and company.
It wasn’t China that created a color revolution in Ukraine, overthrowing a democratically elected president in order to prevent closer ties between Ukraine and Russia. That would be the USA with Victoria Nuland leading the way.
It wasn’t China that started hostilities between Russia and Ukraine, beginning with offers of NATO membership to the latter country, that very act violating previous treaties. It wasn’t China that financed this proxy war between Russia and Ukraine. That would be the USA and its NATO allies.
And now you think that Russia can be lured away from a partnership with China? That partnership is one hell of a hedge against western aggression.
Maybe it’s time for the USA to start working with other countries instead of trying to dominate them. Of course, it will take a long time before other countries will believe our federal government can be trusted.
Bonapart invades Russia. big mistake. Hitler invades Russia. another big mistake. CIA invades Russia. will CIA win?
No the CIA doesn’t have a chance; Russia is too wise for them. The tactics of the CIA are used liberally in the good old USA, though AND half the nation has fallen for them!!
spoiler: CIA has not lost a single life in about 20 years, perhaps longer.
the CIA most people think, it isn’t. They steal secrets, develop assets and then create wars that others die over.
James bond doesn’t exist. It hasn’t in a very long time. I recently listened to the Joe Rogan podcast with John Kiriakou. ( persecuted and emprisoned for telling the truth about CIA torture realities). In this podcast, he highlights what the CIA actually does, and none of it demands any single one of them to take any personal risks. And they don’t. And no one demands they do. They answer to literally no one. Above the law, lawLESS.
I am confident in saying that almost every single US entanglement and armed conflict involving the US and at least 75 percent of foreign conflict, insurrection, coups, and assassinations…they play some kind of predicate role. It’s what they do. Congress seems pleased to not bother looking hard either. There is no coincidence that almost every single CIA ranking officer and all members of Congress are filthy rich from inside trading…and possibly selling “secrets”…you know because that’s also what they do. “unwittingly” of course. With all that surveillance power and analytics…few would hold back from temptations. It’s obscene that most of the ranking CIA agents are multimillions…groteque.
example: cofer black. of burisma infamy….same board member as hunter Biden. same kind of “actor”. finds himself in them middle of nearly every single God damned conflict and war in the last 20 years and makes a fortune. You can’t expect me to believe it’s because he good a coding. the dude is likely selling Intel, and making sure his pals at Langley get inside info before the news and traders get wind.
because no one apparently cares or dares to ask these questions, no one in Congress even makes an effort to get a committee together to even ask these questions.
the untouchable unstoppables.
This can’t continue. We simply cannot have a secret wing of government that is a shot caller over national security. It’s not how it supposed to work. We cannot continue to have a secret police spy state that big foots over a duly elected president. We cannot allow a secret police spy state to manufacture false claims about a Wuhan bioweapon program. They killed millions. And not a single one has been asked the right effing questions.
God Bless America
God Bless America
“When President Trump and President Putin come into open alignment, the entire world changes.”
Yep.
Globalism dies. Nationalism wins.
All those hundreds of billions invested in it, and China? They become write-offs.
A strategic economic, military, and political alignment between Russia and America….two of the largest Christian nations in the world…..means the absolute end of hot globalist fever dreams.
It also means accountability is coming for a whole bunch of people who went all in to give globalism the victory. The Russians, in particular, have very, very long memories.
I’m starting to understand how Putin sees Trump as an ally in goals to stop the war, and help un-unite Russia and China.
Russia may be primitive when it comes to human rights, but China is barbaric and predatory, so it makes sense that Russian-asians prefer to live in, and embrace Russia.
The analogy of the sheer number of Russian deaths and graves, is unimaginable. How did they even find the manpower to bury them all – and farm, and survive?
A great many of them are still mouldering in forests and fields.
Thank you, Sundance.
Because of you sharing your investigations and travel experiences, I have come to believe that we have more in common with Russia than we do with many of our European allies. I have begun watching other videos of not just Russian people, but how we have betrayed treaties and trusts entered into with Russia and other allies, and it seems to me that we have not been the “good guys” much of the time.
The corrosion of “our” integrity, honor and moral standing has been happening for many years, and people we trusted lied to us, made decisions to benefit themselves and we did not hold them to account for their actions. They compromised our nations moral standing and we allowed it to stand.
Too much pretending, not enough transparency in what is really happening. We need to be cautious about believing what we hear; especially from our own government.
Wait and see what happens. In the interim, I treasure your insight and appreciate your wisdom. Thank you.
saw a meme a while back about Russian fatalism. Meme has four portraits: an Englishman; a Frenchie, an American and a Russian. Englishman says “I’ll die for honour.” French says “I’ll die for love.” American says “I’ll die for Freedom.” Russian says “I’ll die.”
It’s in the air. BIG Changes are happening. Good ones.
MAGA POWER!
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Alternatively, it could be a leak intended to undermine any Chinese support for Russia in the Ukraine war.
I realized as a kid watching the Olympics that the Russian and American athletes were very similar in both physical stature and ability, as well as mindset. For decades Americans and Russians were the top competitors. The only real difference during the cold war was that, according to the KGB (Putin back then) was the Americans were too humane. Russia made moves based on logic and reality (how things actually are), while America took a more emotional and idealistic approach (how we would like things to be). I don’t see that much has changed since that time.
Please remember that, back then, we were talking about “the USSR.” Well, that grand social compact has now been permanently dismantled because it simply didn’t work. Today’s “Russia” is not equivalent.
Thank you for this write up, SD. It inspired me to review the world map, particularly the location of the ‘stans’ that used to be a part of the USSR. Exchange programs w/the ‘stans’ were high profile when my daughter was a h.s. student in the early 2ks. Now I need to re-examine what those programs were really abt w/fresh eyes.
Praying for a positive in a world gone negative. Good thing God lives elsewhere. The article was very informative. Gives us hope these two will come together.
The Russians paid by far the greatest price in blood in the “Great Patriotic War,” and they will never allow their citizens to forget this. They were the ones on the ground, taking the hits, both in Germany and in Japan. You should know that “atomic bombs” were not what caused Japan to surrender: the eleven-day(!) crushing defeat of their elite forces in Manchuria did. Stalin promised to be in Tokyo within the month, taking the very short sea journey from the West, and the Japanese knew that he would do it.
It was time to surrender – but to who? To the Allies, or to their Ancient Enemy? To his credit, Stalin allowed the USSR to be “one of the Allies.”
PT’s comment that the U.S. won the Great Patriotic War – most important contribution, by far! – was not at all popular.
To put it mildly.
I think it’s funny that the document describes mistrust by Russia. As if that’s not a given.
While America is distracted by the treasonous US media with the democrat-funded riots in LA, POTUS is forging an political, economic, and military alliance with Russia at Camp David that will end the Ukraine war and also put the Iranian regime onto a leash.
Brilliant.
That is an excellent take-away. May it be so!
I politely think that news outlets should be held criminally liable when they publish materials that are known to be “classified.”
If you hold a security clearance and you break it, you can go to prison for a very long time. “The Press” should be no different.
It is a crime ( https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/798 ) that needs to be prosecuted. Plug a lot of leaks if the reporters and publishers knew they would be heading to jail.
The FBI did pay a visit to Ali Watkins after she received the FISA from Wolfe. But that was apparently for show, or to put a lid on too much information getting out.
“When President Trump and President Putin come into open alignment, the entire world changes.
Their opposition knows this.”
There it is. The job is to identify and list the interests that oppose a Russia/USA combine. There are several, and the reasons for their opposition don’t necessarily overlap.
One person may hate you because from his perspective you are too tall. Another may hate you because from his perspective you are too short. Together, they are the opposition. The trick is to pry them apart. How? You can’t make the tall guy shorter, but you CAN buy the short guy stilts.
A lot can be said for a full throated 21st Century recommitment to tried and true Westphalian principles of international sovereignty. Countries respect each others’ borders, and (this is the key) STAY OUT OF EACH OTHERS’ INTERNAL AFFAIRS. No policies of regime change or nation building. No foreign rigged elections. No bribery through foreign aid. No Right to Protect. None of that Twentieth Century virtue signaling do-gooder adventurism that invariably ended badly and made things worse.
Keep your eyes on your own paper. Looking at you, England. Oh, and at the agency that must not be named. Oh, and those in the Senate who just can’t wait to send someone else’s children to war.
I am not convinced your normal, regular American hates Russia. Having lived in south Florida during the Cuban Crisis…to the Russia Russia Russia Hoax, in today’s world EU, in general, is a bigger enemy of USA than Russia, imo. For one thing, Russia and USA are Christian based nations, and Christianity is practically dead in EU countries. Starting with faith alone as a common elements between the peoples of USA/Russia, I believe we could interact as friends not enemies.
I believe most MAGA Patriots would be amenable to such an arrangement given much fake gubmint propaganda that’s been fed to us for decades, but it would take President Tump’s leadership to accomplish this. IMHO I believe he should go full steam ahead, as quickly as possible, on this point. It matters not what the fake media, Dems,EU/NATO Say. They all hate him anyway so just leave them in the dust.
Young people love PT and they aren’t indoctrinated to hate RUS. They would be open to interaction.
With the rare mineral agreement with fake-prez Zman, maybe that could be PT’s foot in the door with RUS/Putin — through economics.
PT’s window is short. He has to move, and now is his opportunity via UKR & Iran. Time and opportunity are short. Do a state visit.
“I am not convinced your normal, regular American hates Russia.”
Normal, average, regular Americans don’t spend 5 minutes a month thinking about anything outside their jobs, families, and communities. Nor do they want to. Nor should they have to. Normal, average, regular Americans don’t have anything against anyone unless they have threatened or harmed their jobs, their families, or their communities. Just leave us alone.
Could agree with that, but if and when this situation arises, many if not most might not be opposed to it.
I was agreeing with you. We got nothing against the Russians. Get closer to Russia economically? Sure. Why not? They can buy the stuff we make.
Ok. We could buy their Vodka🤣
Chocolates are to die for!
Link to my favorite, liquor-filled.
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https://www.alenka.ru/product/konfety_stolichnye_krasnyy_oktyabr/
“Ares Leaks, a cybercrime group” is like wikileaks. They offer a forum for the release of classified government documents.
I’m sure such forums are wonderful for STATE ACTORS to selectively “leak” materials with deniability:
Closing of Breached hack forum boosts popularity of ARES Leaks platform
April 11, 2023
https://securityparrot.com/news/closing-of-breached-hack-forum-boosts-popularity-of-ares-leaks-platform/
After the recent closure of the hacker forum BreachForums (aka Breached), the ARES hack group is gaining popularity among criminals, selling databases stolen from companies and government agencies. Thus, the ARES Leaks platform, hosted on the regular internet, offers access to data leaks from 65 countries, including the United States, France, Spain, Australia, and Italy.
[snip]
Journalists conclude that while LeakBase is far from the scale of Breached, interest in it seems to be growing, and soon the site may become an important center for hackers selling information and services.
Other recent Russian document “leaks”:
“Recent investigations have revealed that a massive leak of over two million documents related to Russia’s nuclear modernization efforts has been authenticated by Danish investigative group Danwatch and Germany’s Der Spiegel. These documents include detailed blueprints and internal layouts of military installations, confirming extensive upgrades to Russia’s nuclear missile infrastructure”
The only comment about where they came from is “western sources”:
Massive security breach: Russian nuclear facilities exposed online
Danwatch and Der Spiegel has gained access to hundreds of highly detailed blueprints showing how Russia is carrying out an enormous modernization of some of the world’s most sensitive nuclear weapons facilities.
28 May 2025
https://danwatch.dk/en/serious-security-breach-russian-nuclear-facilities-exposed/
Another one:
Leaked files reveal Russia’s nuclear strike criteria, China surprise
Feb 29, 2024
https://interestingengineering.com/military/russia-criteria-for-nuclear-strikes
Leaked Top Secret Russian files have revealed Russia’s minimum tactical nuclear strike launch criteria, the Financial Times (FT) reported on Wednesday.
The leaked documents show that Russia’s “Red Lines” for nuclear deployment are surprisingly low, claims the report.
The source of the document leak is not revealed but is said to come from “Western sources.” The leak consisted of around 29 files written between 2008 and 2014. And, as the FT reports, they appear to indicate a threshold “lower than Russia has ever publicly admitted, according to experts who reviewed and verified the documents.”
Criteria for launch include things like “an enemy incursion on Russian territory to more specific triggers, such as the destruction of 20% of Russia’s strategic ballistic missile submarines,” the FT explained. The files also seem to indicate that Russia considers the loss of three of its surface ships or three of its airfields as justification for nuclear deployment.
Other criteria include the “simultaneous hit on main and reserve coastal command centers” or the loss of 30% of its nuclear-powered attack submarines. To this end, nukes could be unleashed to “[contain] states from using aggression…or escalating military conflicts.”
HEY, where are the major NATO or US military secret leaks? Not found because we’re SO much better at keeping secrets? LOL!
So, who could these state actors be, possibly working through as they have been previously shown to do, hacker front groups?
Would they be releasing documents to help or hinder the Blob’s efforts against Russia and with Ukraine?
I think it’s obvious even beyond the NYT being involved in one of them.
Combined acreage of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, = 113,586,640 acres. Divided by 27,000,000 would be more than 4.2 acres/grave without adding Washington DC to the land total.
https://wilderness.net/practitioners/wilderness-areas/summary-reports/acreage-by-state.php
Russia is a special country and people. For centuries they have been invaded, yet the remain in tact. There is a lot of subtle evidence floating around that the Catholic Church is behind it all.
The Russians and Chinese are both are enemies and it is a mistake to think of either as potential allies. FDR believed this and helped create Stalin. Nixon believed this and created modern China.
Your understanding of history is a little…..warped. FDR didn’t create Stalin….No way, no how, not even close….
But it sounded nice….
That quaint thinking is still common among many Brits. Look at their newspaper propaganda from the Crimean War. Mongol monsters, caricatures are a staple.
FDR had nothing to do with Stalins power. Totally wrong…
The article Sundance referenced and his description is only needed for people who can’t see the lack of true incompatibility between China and Russia. I came to the conclusion Sundance did many years ago. I have been fascinated with Russian culture and politics for decades now. They are probably the most logical and ‘cold’ people in the world. Like Sundance says, they don’t pretend. Why pretend? If you pretend and ignore you can’t see true reality. How then can you act correctly? Do not move in a dark room. Turn on the light first!
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Something inevitable is coming. And Rubio knows it. Enjoying the show.
Given that where the hell was Marco Rubio when his buddy Lyndsey Graham went to Ukraine ? Did he not know and buy coincidence the day before Ukraine bombed Russia ? If he did know doesn’t that make him complicit ? If he didn’t then why wasn’t Graham and Blumenthal interrogated ?
I haven’t forgotten that Marco and Graham were both part of the “Gang of Eight”. Didn’t they work together to undermine Trump during his first term ?
Sorry but it rings serious doubts in my mind.
There is something funny going on.
Graham has been over there constantly, Blumenthal has been over there before during this administration too.