The timing of these events is remarkable. Almost so remarkable that one might think they are intentionally sequenced.
It started yesterday when the very popular former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov issued a striking warning about Ukraine’s government, corruption, and the need to develop an immediate mechanism for elections even while the war against Russia continues.
There is a great deal of support for Mykhailo Fedorov within Ukraine, as many people see him as a stronger and yet more pragmatic representative of the people. Fedorov holds strongest support from those under 50 years old, and yesterday he diplomatically called for Ukraine to organize elections in order to retain position as a democracy.
VIA CBS – The former defense minister acknowledged the difficulties of holding a vote during the war, including how to ensure soldiers, people who live near the front line and Ukrainians who fled the war can cast their ballots. “This is complex. … But complexity does not mean impossibility,” Fedorov said. (Citation)
In the background, the frustration of the Ukrainian people is bubbling up to the surface. In part because the hunters the Zelenskyy regime has hired to go find conscripts are now seen as living a life of indulgence. The conscript hunters who take the men off the streets are earning $150k targeting their own people for forced military service. The people are furious.
Simultaneous to this public statement about elections released by Fedorov, the anti-corruptions agencies in Ukraine announced investigations directly related to Zelenskyy’s government itself. It looks like Fedorov knew this was coming.
UKRAINE – Ukraine’s anti-graft agencies said on Wednesday they had uncovered a group including a presidential official that had laundered 150 million hryvnias ($3.35 million) used to pay for bail in an energy corruption scheme.
Ukrainian anti-corruption agencies launched a special operation against lawmakers and presidential advisers on Wednesday, hours before a key vote in parliament for a new defence minister aimed at cementing a shake-up by President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The NABU and SAPO agencies said in a YouTube video the group comprised a deputy head of the presidential office, a former lawmaker, heads of the management and supervisory boards of a state-owned bank and others.
[…] The probe poses a fresh headache for Zelensky after ousted defence chief Mykhailo Fedorov called for wartime elections in a bombshell statement late on Tuesday. (read more)
As if that wasn’t bad enough, even more news broke that puts a very negative light on the Ukrainian government.
BERLIN (AP) — A Ukrainian man was arrested Wednesday in Croatia in connection with the 2022 undersea explosions that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines between Russia and Germany, Germany’s federal prosecutor said.
Ukrainian national Vladimir Z., whose last name was not given in line with German privacy rules, was arrested in Pula, Croatia, by local police acting on a European arrest warrant.
“Vladimir Z. is a trained scuba diver who was part of a group of individuals who planted explosives on the ‘Nord Stream 1’ and ‘Nord Stream 2’ gas pipelines near the (Danish) island of Bornholm in September 2022,” prosecutors said.
He was “strongly suspected of jointly causing explosions, anti-constitutional sabotage, and destruction of buildings and structures,” they added.
Undersea explosions on Sept. 26, 2022, damaged the pipelines, which had been built to carry Russian natural gas to Germany under the Baltic Sea. The damage added to tensions over the war in Ukraine as European countries moved to wean themselves off Russian energy sources after the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. (read more)
When I combine these events with the recent effort by western intelligence to shape a very specific narrative about the current status of the war, my sense of the landscape is that things are more tenuous and urgent than Zelenskyy and his loyal defenders would like to admit.
The psychology of war is as brutal on the citizens as the battles, and it has looked for two months like NATO/EU, western intelligence and elements in media have been trying to support a specific psychological narrative inside Ukraine that defies the reality of what is visible. That’s the only way I can make sense of the difference between western claims and the reality I saw in Russia.
Inside Russia there are signs of the war, indications that conflict impacting their economic status is taking place, but nothing even remotely close to what western media and NATO politicians have claimed. Support for Putin still seems exceptionally strong, and the stuff being promoted on MSM and social media about problems inside Russia are not based on reality.
If NATO wants to expand the conflict with Russia to engage in a direct military effort to support Ukraine, they are underestimating the strength and resolve of what you can literally feel inside the Russian Federation.
Russians are brutally pragmatic and hard and the past three years of battleground experience in modern warfare has built out the mechanisms of hard and callous combat readiness. Other than a few thousand Ukraine and special forces, the NATO alliance does not have combat soldiers with the intensity of hardness you see in the Russian people.
The west has to rely on technological advantages, and I honestly sense right now the NATO group are finding out that a digital war against an analog enemy doesn’t flow the way it might be planned in Brussels, London or Washington DC.
The alliance that has supported Ukraine the most is now facing a Ukrainian people who want this to end. As Fedorov politely notes – and his supporters vocally attest, you cannot claim to be a defender of democracy while simultaneously suspending the very systems of democracy, like elections.
President Zelenskyy is increasingly disconnected, not from his support base(s) in Brussels, DC or London, but increasingly from the people within his own nation. I’m not sure if Zelenskyy could win an election based on the sentiment I see carried outward toward Fedorov.
Again, if you stand back and look at the totality of events, a picture emerges that something is going to change very soon.
I quess the Eurotards forgot what the Russians did to Napolean and Germany.
Dang, we thought we had them and then they got all mad about it. You Eurotards trying to make Russia angry again, try reading a true history book for a change and see what happened the last time you made them ‘MAD AS Hell’!
Little Z man is looking a little pinkish these days.
Ellensky is looking a little peaked these days because he’s anticipating his impending flight off a 10th story balcony.
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the new guy will want to use new tactics to win
For Ukraine there will not be a win.
Only different levels of losing, depending on when they decide to end it.
I think Z looks like he has swollen jaw. I am not sure of it , but I think Steve Martin played a star role in a movie titled “Novaciane”. There are a few more perverse movies of people being tortured by a crazed dentist.
Just recently had periodontal surgery myself. I can only think that this might be the torture Zee needs to give it up already.
U.S. debt now officially tops $40 trillion. Maybe U.S. should consider no longer gifting billions to Ukraine.
The U.S. Congress has made $195 billion available in total spending related to the war in Ukraine. According to official data from the U.S. Ukraine Oversight Group
How much of that $195B was re-grafted back to congressional campaign accounts, their relatives, cosplay Ukrainian generals, and other unsavory reprobates? It’s likely a shockingly high percentage.
You know “money” isn’t really money, right? It has no value backing: no gold, no silver, no diamonds. The Fed “earns” money only when it “lends,” and collects “interest.” “Congress” sends The Fed a Lend-Demand, Fed says SURE, and the presses start rolling. The damage to Americans is both the interest and inflation — when the “dollar” doesn’t buy a stick of gum any more. If The US is going to survive economically in the world, we need to be “charging” for our services and protection. The term, “What’s in it for US?” applies. We need be more “wise as serpents” over “gentle as doves.” STOP GIVING OUR PERSONAL WEALTH TO GRIFTERS, BLEEDING HEARTS, WAR-MONGERS, INVADERS AND PROFESSIONAL POLITICIANS. Charity belongs at HOME first; with my family; with my neighbor. Get some steel in your spine America!
A $195,000,000,000.00 that you know of.
The Agency’s budget is secret…
I would love to see Zelensky gone and peace with Russia. But those who support Zelensky are very wealthy and amoral. They kill without remorse.
🙏 unceasingly
We have all seen how Ukraine replenishes their military forces…here is one that got away 😛
A Ukrainian man being kidnapped by Zelensky/NATO henchmen was rescued by his friends
Oh geeze. Just trying to figure out why at the least, that the Roach exterminators have not been called to rid the world of The Great and “Powerful” Zee . I doubt whether he can still “play piano.” But somehow he’s still being monetized.
I want a recycling trash truck to come and pick him up and film it live where he is ground up and treated as nuclear waste.
If Fedorov doesn’t receive a package or double tap in the back of his head (suicide) then he is being protected by the same people running the mess in Ukraine.
It’s kind of funny that the day after the Nordstream pipeline was bombed there were many with physical proof on one of many Aircraft tracking systems that showed a military aircraft circling the area and actually dropping projectiles (Torpedoes)
Is it possible to actually dive the 360 ?
Yes it is but it has to be extremely specialized individuals and equipment and most countries do not have such people.
If free and fair elections are held, then Zelinsky is guaranteed to lose, and if Zelinsky loses, then the war is guaranteed to end with Ukraine ceding captured territory to Russia.
President Joe Biden stated on February 7, 2022, that “If Russia invades… then there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it.”
Dang!
If Ukraine actually holds a free and fair election, the swamp will have to redirect more of the swamps unlimited discretional spending streams to fund another coup.
The Lone Scuba-Bomber.
“ The west has to rely on technological advantages, and I honestly sense right now the NATO group are finding out that a digital war against an analog enemy doesn’t flow the way it might be planned in Brussels, London or Washington DC.“
Brilliant analogy ….
It’s nothing but hell. Kyiv. Aug 20, 2026.
Looks like a Double tap.
Video on the 8/19/26 hits on Kiev.
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War has become “more expensive,” Zelensky says.
“We need to find the funds. This is the biggest challenge,” he complains.
Good. A late awakening… why so long for this? I don’t think it is organic… but I am glad it might be the beginning of the end of Zelensky.
Could this all be related to the US in depth, detailed examination of all positioning of US forces in Europe? I think it also includes examining how much the US supports NATO vs. NATO countries themselves? Plus all of the speeches given and papers written by the US government about what Europe needs to do to remain a strong partner with US?
What happens when “world war reddit” meets the reality of the US DOW review of NATO and European countries?
lost me at ” the reality I saw in Russia.”
It’s time for Zelenskyy to resign — Berliner Zeitung
The German publication writes that Zelenskyy’s time in power is up, and that voluntary resignation would be the most sensible political decision for him.
The author cites falling ratings, corruption investigations in his inner circle, and the emergence of potential electoral rivals among the reasons.
“The longer the former actor clings to power, while the NABU and SAP are teeming with evidence of corruption and public trust is declining, the more the image of a military hero is being replaced by that of a president who is trying to protect his own system at any cost.”
The Berliner Zeitung cites former Defense Minister Fedorov’s call to hold elections even during military operations as one of the signs of an internal crisis.
According to the publication, Fedorov is capable of defeating Zelenskyy in a by-election, while former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhnyy has an even higher record.
“Zelenskyy’s resignation—orderly, voluntary, and prepared in accordance with the constitution—would not be capitulation, but the most sensible political decision he still has left.”
The author warns that prolonging the government crisis could lead to street protests, domestic political infighting, or pressure from Europe.
After resigning, Zelenskyy, according to the author, should voluntarily appear before anti-corruption authorities.