35-year-old Ukraine Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov was removed from his position about a month ago. Despite being heralded as the reason for Ukraine’s successful defense and strikes against Russia, there was internal friction about control of the war spending (ie ‘procurement). The old guard military leaders were unwilling to give up their ability to enrich themselves and their families, Fedorov was removed by President Zelenskyy.
In this CBS interview with Fedorov the young outsider, who is still connected to the war effort and holds strong relationships with both Palantir (Alex Karp) and SpaceX (Elon Musk), outlines the current status of the conflict and gives his predictions on what comes next.
Fedorov states that Ukraine ballistic missiles should be online within three to six months. He also predicts the ground conflict will be fully autonomous within a year, with robots and drones engaged in most of the combat operations. As a consequence, Eastern Ukraine is now the real time proving ground for an entirely new type of technological warfare.
The interview is interesting both from a narrative perspective, the Hollywood-lite construct which includes elements of the former ‘find Kony’ performances, the youthful drama – David vs Goliath, the handsome characters etc., and from a perspective of Fedorov’s contemplative responses. WATCH:
When Fedorov speaks of “destroying 200 Russians” (6:28 of video), he is speaking about destroying the 200 Wildberries warehouses the Ukraine government is convinced will result in the collapse the Russian economy.
If you get the feeling -a general sense- that we are watching a scripted performance of sorts, that’s because we are.
World War Reddit continues.
Remember when the air-raid sirens were sounded exactly at the moment when Joe Biden was walking through Kiev with Zlenenskyy?
At the end of all of this effort is the EU/NATO goal of a fully operational war against Russia. No reasonable person in the EU wants this outcome, no ordinary citizen in the U.K wants war with Russia and only a tiny percentage of Americans would support it. However, 80% of the British/EU political class and around 75% of the Washington DC political class would immediately welcome this outcome.
Europe is burning through their spending of the confiscated €300 billion Russian sovereign wealth fund. The money will be completely gone within a year as it is the funding mechanism for almost all Ukraine support. When you think about this in very practical terms, this makes the EU war against Russia a foregone conclusion.
In my opinion, the decision to spend that confiscated Russian asset wealth is what changed in early June when Zelenskyy visited King Charles in London. What was once avoidable is now ultimately only a matter of time.
Unless someone is willing to step into the finance side and repay Russia, a western conflict with the Russian Federation to avoid the issue seems to be the overwhelming likelihood. In the interim, Eastern Ukraine remains a meat grinder.
“However, 80% of the British/EU political class and around 75% of the Washington DC political class would immediately welcome this outcome.”
If anything those numbers are probably too low, sad to say.
It is their personal grift they want to keep going!
They can’t directly steal Russia’s money without risking Russia killing them!
Russia will not allow Ukraine to deploy ballistic missiles.
I think it’s time for someone to provide targeting information to Russia that includes little Z’s location.
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‘Russia will not allow Ukraine to deploy ballistic missiles’
Russia will not allow the see eye ah and Europe to teach Ukraine to deploy nuclear missiles – there I have fixed it.
I hold the same exact opinion. No how, no way that Russia under putin (or other) is going to stand by and have Ukraine with the capability of launching ballistic, whether conventional or not.
I see Russia getting well ahead of this and doing the unimaginable. I do. Of a false flag from Ukraine, which has likely been the case in several other “episodes”.
Will that region go nuclear isn’t the question, it’s when.
the danger of having Ukraine with ballistics takes us ALL right up to the 23:59:59 hour. There is no room for error in that space.
Now would be the time that President Trump and Putin have that talk and find a way to stablize the region.
for example, when I read that President Trump was initially talking about licensing patriots so that UKR could manufacture them, and then quickly walked that back (for now), I understood that as a form of pressure to have Russia start serious negotiations. It was a very risky move. I didn’t find it inspiring. No reason to have the US become part of a much larger problem.
so the question is how ukr will acquire ballistics and much more effective drones and the intelligence that is required to deploy them. if that is their goal?
I pray that President Trump does not provide that kind of resource to UKR. We are all screwed if he does. Russia is not going to simply pack it up and go back home. That makes this war much much difficult to manage without making a nuclear error.
God Bless America
Agree, however a false flag attack inside one of the EU countries seems like a higher probability. A false flag hit inside Ukraine wouldn’t raise anyone’s blood pressure high enough to draw the EU into the war with Russia they want.
And the Bear will rise up and destroy much flesh
That 300 billion Russian money should be paid to the United States, to repay us for the 300 Biden sent to Ukraine.
No, it’s Russia’s money. Stealing is stealing.
Ukraine and EU (+UK) owe Russia what they stole-
BHO, JB, and all their “gang” owe America much more than that.
the 300 billion that bidet gave to ukraine didn’t leave the usa, it was just a digital laundry ride thru ukraine on it’s way into the demonrat and rinorat party global coffers.
lol
Do the globalist war pigs really think Russia will capitulate without using nukes?
Hypersonic missiles with high grade explosives will do just as much damage without the fallout and they can’t be shot down with a Patriot so there’s that.
EMP ends the games, hope someone knows how to live in the 1860s
The Terminator has arrived, but it’s a dog, not Arnold Schwarzenegger! No human soldier can compete with this!
Propaganda.
EMP’s will render them useless.
Along with most everything else
Yep
Do you carry and EMP gun in your pocket? How many drones in a swarm now, so what if the same number of these dogs are turned lose in the US and just told to go and do?
They are also editing the genetics of their human soldiers, and have been working on it for years (as have the western militaries). A few churches have been warning about this for years (long before 2020) as it relates to mRNA injections.
https://engineerine.com/tardigrade-dna-super-soldiers/
https://www.geekextreme.com/chinese-super-soldiers/
As in the days of Noah…
AI graphics.
The captain is speeding recklessly through a sea of icebergs.
The passengers are the only ones aware of the danger.
“We must make haste and get to our destination. I don’t know how much longer the passengers can stand their luxurious accommodations!”
I know nothing, but “…Eastern Ukraine is now the real time proving ground for an entirely new type of technological warfare…” sounds like a behind the scenes “tech bro/war hawk” reason for the war to continue. The godless want to develop technology for profit and since they are godless they don’t care how many lives are lost on either side. They just want to build stuff and see if their stuff works so they can get even richer. What a waste.
“Unless someone is willing to step into the finance side and repay Russia, a western conflict with the Russian Federation to avoid the issue seems to be the overwhelming likelihood.”
President Trump should refuse flat-out to provide any more funding for that war, whether to repay Russia or for any other purpose. The compromised in Congress will demand funding, but PT should veto anything they try to do. With nothing coming from the U.S. to help them out, including refusing to go to war with Russia, I think it is just as possible that the EU will collapse. They might provoke or even initiate a war with Russia out of desperation, but if PT staunchly refuses to go along, the EU will disintigrate and many of the member governments will change as well, and probably the UK along with them. And all that would be the best of all possible outcomes.
I 2nd the veto.
Make the CONgressional war pigs… declare war or stfu.
agree 100%, D One.
UKR is NOT a NATO member, and even if it were,
we are not absolutely bound to defend it if i understand the provisions correctly.
doing our best Swiss impersonation, we should remain absolutely NEUTRAL.
any aggression against Russia by anybody gets met with
a diplomatic “let us know how that works out” response.
we offer aid and support to NO ONE if the lunatics pushing this prevail.
this is just CRAZY.
the EU pursuing war with Russia?
the number$ must be astronomical to even contemplate such a stupid, stupid, stupid,
counterproductive, diabolical, geopolitical disaster and disregard of human life such as this.
to quote the song, tell me where is sanity?
oh, heck, here’s the song, too:
“Eastern Ukraine is now the real time proving ground for an entirely new type of technological warfare.”
and there it is!!!!!!!
What the last few years have shown me is everything is fake. People in these positions of “power” just literally make crap up to fit their needs. We are too large of a society for real accountability in the current power structure: top-down. I’ve said it before in comments here, but we need to focus on local control.
Turn out is abysmal in local and state elections during off-cycle elections. That’s how places like KY, LA, etc have democrat governors when the vote is overwhelming R during presidential elections. Doug Jones, the democrat, got Sessions Alabama Senate seat because no one bothered to show up to vote. Real power, real change can come from working people voting more than once every four years.
I have long said, most if not all wars are field testing of new equipment.
maybe even biological warfare weapons development and testing…if i were russia i wouldn’t like that either
I just hope we will stay out of it. I think Europe thinks they can provoke it and we will fight it.
So Ukraine is escalating the conflict.. no surprise here.. Hopefully Trump gives the go ahead to slap this little POS upside the head and end this US sponsored/created aggression..
Seriously, SD, watch your 6. These evil people hate truth and sunshine and anyone who brings it.
I am confused about this war. We call it world war reddit because the drone warfare is made up? Then we talk about the meat grinder where loads of young men are conscripted and sent to die. My little brain cannot wrap itself around this seeming dichotomy.
Maybe the meat grinder rhetoric was all propaganda. Maybe there aren’t thousands dead weekly. Maybe it’s all a lie. Wag the Dog.
We have seen almost no photo evidence of any “meat-grinder.”
Where are the picture of the battlefields with thousands of dead lying around?
It could be a myth.
..1,000-1,500 are real numbers deaths of Ukr.soldiers and many more wounded…
At the end of all of this effort is the EU/NATO goal of a fully operational war against Russia. No reasonable person in the EU wants this outcome, no ordinary citizen in the U.K wants war with Russia and only a tiny percentage of Americans would support it. However, 80% of the British/EU political class and around 75% of the Washington DC political class would immediately welcome this outcome. -Sundance
I’ve been praying without success for the end to this useless, senseless war! Now it looks like it will continue for at least another year???? Good grief!!! I thought for sure that President Trump could end this war but apparently not!!! President Trump can’t overcome our IC, the Euroweenies and the neocons and warmongers in DC! Only God can in His timing and His way! Hosanna!
Putin has said it is existential for Russia. Either Russia will win on the ground or Europe will be nuked. The choice is whatever the EU wants. Maybe the Mullahs and the EU are both suicidal? Both may hate themselves enough to destroy their own civilizations. You cannot fix crazy.
I believe the importance of drones. The side with the most effective will gain ground. Our spending on Naval ships and Billion Dollar bombers that are manned is a waste of money. The side with the most, most effective, and most synchronized drones will be a super power. Warfare is undergoing a turning.
I firmly believe that having the most powerful Navy on earth is equally as important as having supremacy in the sky and space.
Drones are like arrows, lethal arrows to be sure. But someone, somewhere, out of survival instincts, will invent something that will bring them to their demise. Consider the bow and arrows vs the Gatling gun.
The U.S. needs to turn inward with regard to technology and bring manufacturing and invention back home where it belongs. President Trump is trying to do that. Unfortunately we have an ethically bankrupt House and Senate that purposely circumvents his every effort to save this country from their themselves. In turn, they sacrifice the people that put them in power.
Nothing will change until the citizens vote in people who have proven themselves as true believers of the greatness of this country and themselves. 2026 is critical to that effort.
“Drones are like arrows, lethal arrows to be sure. But someone, somewhere, out of survival instincts, will invent something that will bring them to their demise. Consider the bow and arrows vs the Gatling gun.”
“Skies Are Changing”: Northrop Grumman Unveils Chain Gun To Defend Critical Infrastructure From Drone Swarm Attacks
by Tyler Durden
Friday, Aug 14, 2026 – 04:15 AM
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/skies-are-changing-northrop-grumman-unveils-chain-gun-defend-critical-infrastructure-drone
I think the entities that successively brought to fruition Operation Paperclip, MK Ultra, and Project Monarch want a meat grinder going. Cern has Shiva in front of it, and is reportedly named after Cernnunos. The gods they worship are luciferian.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/09/23/report-zelensky-asks-spirit-cooking-occult-artist-marina-abramovic-to-be-ambassador-for-ukraine/
https://news24online.com/world/who-is-marina-abramovic-ukraines-ambassador-linked-to-spirit-cooking-mkir/173810/
An Abramovic spirit cooking invitation was in the Podesta email leak.
Knowing most here have not seen Spielberg’s latest ‘Disclosure Day’, the powers that be are preparing us for something very, very dark and occultic. He uses the monarch symbol intentionally. Hidden in plain sight.
DJT needs to state plainly, clearly and LOUDLY that the US will not protect any dopey EU / NATO country which, in his opinion, has provoked a Russian reprisal and / or open warfare with Russia. NATO is a defensive arrangement, not an offensive one and POTUS will not allow it to be bastardized and / or redefined as same, in order to protect a country which proactively and intentionally engaged in risky behavior. Instead, the US will hold fast to the original intent of the agreement.
This needs to happen now, BEFORE the ballistic missiles inevitably begin falling on Western Europe.
This war has an inauthentic feel for me. I can’t believe the Ukrainians are this ignorant of history and critical thinking skills. I am waiting for the embedded war correspondents.
He looks rather well fed and healthy for a soldier. Not at all like the WWII soldiers looked after years of war. He is also too happy. Suspicious cat.
Criminals. All the politicians.
War is about money. Disgusting
No one in the government but maybe a few care about the after effects of the COVID jab and 100’s of thousands lives have been ruined.
The war is the modern simulation of future autonomous warfare. Perhaps it was designed for the next battlefield and this is the entire direction. A testing and breeding grounds with no end in mind. Data and function need to be captured for all the new modern warfare.
If it doesn’t make traditional sense and it is a propaganda war. Perhaps it is by design.
I’ve followed you daily for years because I like your unique perspectives on events.
But your stance on the evil of Zelenskyy (Ukraine) and the virtue of the Russian perspectives (Putin) on this conflict continues to astonish me.
There is truly a single person responsible for this carnage, and its Putin, not Zelenskyy.
Even the almighty Trump can’t sway him.
wow, you must’ve missed a few articles then
Not close enough have you..
(Your none to clever deprecating description of President Trump gives you away. We call ’em as we see ’em.)
Ukraine: Estimates put Chinese-origin components at ~85% for simple FPV drones, and up to 97% in some analyses of Ukrainian-made systems. Ukraine has localized more airframes and assembly, but critical items (sensors, optics, semiconductors, batteries, magnets) still overwhelmingly come from China. Imports of Chinese drones/components have run into the hundreds of millions to over $1 billion in recent years. Some progress on domestic production exists, but full independence remains limited.
Russia: Chinese parts form the majority (often cited as 65–92% of foreign components) in Geran/Shahed-type attack drones, FPV systems, and others. China has enabled Russia to scale production dramatically (e.g., engines labeled as “cooling units,” microchips, batteries, carbon fiber). Russian factories and networks source heavily from Chinese firms, sometimes via intermediaries.
Shared supply chain: Ukrainian and Russian buyers frequently purchase from the same Chinese factories and suppliers (especially in Shenzhen/Guangdong industrial zones). Chinese companies manage logistics and schedules so the two sides do not meet. New components and technologies often appear nearly simultaneously on both sides of the front.
How China supercharged Putin’s drone factoriesMoscow is ramping up production at its giant arms complex, fuelled by components from Beijing
https://archive.is/BQ2b5
Russia, Ukraine and the race for Chinese drone componentsAs both sides scramble to source vital parts, some experts are convinced Russian buyers are being favoured by Beijing
https://archive.is/wGNRM#selection-1571.0-1577.117
“New components and technologies often appear nearly simultaneously on both sides of the front.”
China Copies America’s Futuristic “Sub-Second Detect-To-Fire” Anti-Drone Swarm Dome Gun
by Tyler Durden
Saturday, Aug 15, 2026 – 08:45 AM
“China appears to have replicated a next-generation counter-drone system we first covered in mid-July. The system uses a multi-barrel hemispherical array that reduces much of the latency associated with conventional turrets, shortening the sensor-to-shooter engagement cycle. Beijing’s apparent interest reflects the design’s potential as a next-generation counter-UAS system capable of engaging drone swarms approaching simultaneously from multiple directions…”
(Because Chyna is great at copying.
Innovation – not so much…- D_I)
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/china-copies-americas-futuristic-sub-second-detect-fire-anti-drone-swarm-dome-gun
Ukraine is NATOs and USAs testing ground for new weapons ….. Until Russia says Nyet, and attacks EU manufacturers.
Any USA president who goes to war for the EU will wish he hadn’t been born.
You have to wonder, is this a war or a giant live training exercise being used as a distraction and a heist.
The international situation today is terrifying. Ballistic missiles in Europe and the oil well? Financially we are toast. So are the EU and Russia and Parthia. Where has the money ended up? China is not the answer. They are in deep trouble also.
The primitives are over the borders because they are hungry. Socialism sends the money somewhere. I guess to NY and London. Trump needs to bring things home now. It will take Parthia a decade to rebuild. We need the time to disassemble our socialist/banker state.
robots on the ground. Not boots on the ground. At first you might thing this is a good idea. No human cost. No unnecessary risk to human life.
BOY have I got bad news for you.
all wars are about energy. all of them. Resources/energy/oil.
what does winning a war look in a robot war?
how do you measure it?
where are the pressures to end a war and to sign a treatise if the human cost is not the reason to end it?
will robots sign the treatise too?
this war, the one we are seeing play out and evolve into a robotic/AI war is so dangerous. We have made war cheap…easy…and the costs are a couple thousand for a new drone to fly…
it’s strange to think about, but without the human toll of war…the tragedy, the raw emotions of loss of human life and dignity, what are the reasons to end them?
in my view, looking into what comes next, is the ease in which wars are created…the ease in which a nation can say to its people…we are not going to send your sons and daughters into the terror. Isn’t that nice? We are going to spare you from the loss of your loved one’s. But you see, this country over there, they are a serious national security threat…So we have to do something about that. We will send drones. Drones will do the work. Drones will answer to the risk.
And we can all sit back and watch endless drone wars…over….energy.
there are no winners in a war where humans do not experience the costs…
just endless wars.
God Bless America
Its All Staged BS. All of it.
“Inside Russia, none of this stuff is happening; however, the govt of Putin finds some sort of purpose/value (personally I think it is just Russian humor) in countering the Ukraine nonsense by accepting the claim and then reiterating it in their claims of interception.”
Do you really think thats all there is to it?
“It’s all an illusion. First, the illusion makes it look like Russia is under bombardment (western happy), and then the Federation flips the script (it is indeed a script) and uses the claim as evidence of their exceptional capabilities at interception of the non-existent. “
Exceptional capabilities? Really? On the contrary, if this was real Putin would be humiliating himself after 5 years of invading a weak country has gone nowhere.
Putin (Russia) did not really invade Ukraine. You got close when you realized everything the fake news media is showing you in Russia is all an illusion. a.k.a. fake. The part that confuses most is when the pretending stops you have to take a hard look at Putin himself as one of the actors involved in this manufactured crisis. Instead he is made out to be a friend of MAGA. Hes not. Apparently most are not willing to go that deep.
Putins EXCLUSIVE interview with Tucker Carlson was part of the show. hook, line and sinker.
This is “The New Normal” you kept hearing the fake media say over again during the Fake Pandemic which Putin also participated in.
What an absolutely disgusting situation.