Chinese visitors to occupied parts of Ukraine are not an isolated phenomenon. Analysts from the Ukrainian Eastern Human Rights Group, together with the Institute for Strategic and Security Studies, confirmed this after monitoring the economy of the Russian-captured lands from 2022 to 2025, studying open data, and conducting an anonymous survey of local entrepreneurs. Analysts identified at least 17 Chinese companies operating in the occupied territories of Ukraine and documented over 10 visits and other contacts with local "authorities" by delegations from China - ranging from businessmen to members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. The Chinese presence spans seven key sectors in the region: mining, metallurgy, construction, telecommunications, energy, agriculture, and education. According to researchers, over 80% of imports to occupied Luhansk Oblast consist of Chinese goods, and the yuan has become the second base currency there - it is sold in 79 banking locations. Overall, about 90% of Russian-Chinese settlements are now made in yuan and rubles, and the volume of bilateral trade between Russia and China reached a record $220 billion in 2024 Vira Yastrebova, director of the Eastern Human Rights Group and co-author of the study, explained that this involves forming a new architecture of external support for the occupation regime.

#China builds new economic empire in occupied Ukraine: China is conducting an invisible but relentless economic expansion into the Russian-occupied oblasts of eastern and southern Ukraine… english.nv.ua/nation/china... By Daryna Halperina #RussiaUkraineWar #communism #putinism #imperialism

Russia is trying to keep its closest Middle Eastern partner in the fight against U.S. and Israeli military might and prolong a war that is benefiting Russia militarily and economically. The technology provided includes components of modified Shahed drones, which are meant to improve communication, navigation and targeting, the people said. Russia has also been drawing on its experience using drones in Ukraine, offering tactical guidance on how many drones should be used in operations and what altitudes they should strike from, said the people, who included a senior European intelligence officer. Russia has been providing Iran with the locations of U.S. military forces in the Middle East as well as those of its regional allies, The Wall Street Journal has reported. That cooperation has deepened in early days of the war, with Russia recently providing satellite imagery directly to Iran, said two of the people, the officer and a Middle Eastern diplomat. The assistance is similar to intelligence the U.S. and European allies have given to Ukraine in recent years, analysts say. In the Gulf, Moscow's aid is believed to have helped Iran with recent strikes on U.S. radar systems in the region, said the people. Those strikes have included an early warning radar for a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or Thaad, system in Jordan, as well as other targets in Bahrain. Kuwait and Oman.

Russia and Iran don't have a formal military alliance, but Tehran is Moscow's closest partner in the Middle East. Russia is one of Iran's top military suppliers. The relationship has had its ups and downs since the fall of the Soviet Union, but it has deepened greatly since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine. The two have formed commissions and working groups to share military and defense learning. Military delegations regularly visited one another while their soldiers trained together. Russia even built and launched one of Iran's most recent satellite systems. But most important, Iran supplied Moscow with its Shahed drones for its war against Ukraine. When Russia started using the Shaheds on the battlefield, a delegation of several dozen Iranian officers gathered in Crimea to watch footage of the effects on Ukrainian cities and front-line positions. Ukraine says that Russia has used more than 57,000 Shahed-type drones since the start of the war. Since then, Moscow has started producing them domestically, and it has been adapting them to navigate and target more precisely as well as withstand electronic warfare jamming. It is sharing some of those innovations back with Iran now.

Russia is sharing satellite imagery and drone technology with Iran: Moscow has expanded intelligence sharing and military cooperation to help keep Tehran in the fight against U.S. and Israeli military might archive.ph/zYaiX #IranWar #Islamism #putinism

Unable to get from Mr. Trump what he wants in Ukraine, Mr. Putin will fight on, sinking Russia’s resources ever more deeply into his calamitous war. The cost, in treasure and personnel, will climb ever higher. archive.ph/OQ7Sw #RussiaUkraineWar #trumpism #putinism

Essay: As war in Ukraine enters a fifth year, will the ‘Putin consensus’ among Russians hold? - Sight Magazine PETER RUTLAND and ELIZAVETA GAUFMAN say a deep dive into the Russian public’s apparent support for the war suggests it is more fragile than the Russian President would like to believe...

Essay: As war in Ukraine enters a fifth year, will the ‘Putin consensus’ among Russians hold? @sightmagazine.bsky.social #Ukraineconflict #Ukraine #Russia #VladimirPutin #Putinism #RussiansupportforPutin

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As war in Ukraine enters a 5th year, will the ‘Putin consensus’ among Russians hold? | IwPost Polling in Russia suggests strong support for President Vladimir Putin. Yet below the surface, popular sentiment is more mixed.

As war in Ukraine enters a 5th year, will the ‘Putin consensus’ among Russians hold?   #Authoritarianism #Kremlin #Militarism #Putinism #Russia #Russianeconomy #RussianUkrainewar #Ukraine #Ukraineinvasion2022 #VladimirPutin

Drawing on more than 100 interviews with senior intelligence officials and other insiders in multiple countries, this exclusive account details how the US and Britain uncovered Vladimir Putin's plans to invade, and why most of Europe - including the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy - dismissed them. As the fourth anniversary of the invasion approaches and the world enters a new period of geopolitical uncertainty, Europe's politicians and spy services continue to draw lessons from the failures of 2022

A war foretold: How the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int... By @shaunwalker7.bsky.social #RussiaUkraineWar #putinism #inteligence

Alexei Navalny was killed with a toxin developed from an Ecuadorian frog on the orders of Vladimir Putin, proving that Russia possesses illegal chemical weapons, the Government has revealed. An investigation, understood to have been led by Porton Down scientists, concluded that the Russian opposition leader was assassinated with a poison 200 times stronger than morphine. The 47-year-old was murdered while incarcerated in a Siberian prison following years of outspoken criticism of the Russian president. Shortly after his death, biological samples - including human tissue - were smuggled from his cell and sent for analysis to two specialist laboratories, including the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory in Wiltshire. After nearly two years of analysis, scientists have established that traces of epibatidine were found in the specimens The poison, described as one of the deadliest on Earth, was first discovered in Ecuadorian dart frogs. However, the lethal chemical cannot be produced if the creatures are in captivity away from tropical and humid forests. Scientists involved in the "painstaking" research have concluded that it was made synthetically in a highly sophisticated laboratory that would have needed state sponsorship for such advanced chemistry.

Putin’s frog poison hit on Navalny reveals his secret chemical weapons: Porton Down scientists say jailed Russian dissident killed by toxin that could only have been made in state-sponsored lab archive.ph/otAk0#select... #putinism #totalitarianism #dissent

Child abductions in the Russo-Ukrainian war - Wikipedia

"During the Russo-Ukrainian War, Russia has forcibly transferred almost 20,000 Ukrainian children to areas under its control, assigned them Russian citizenship, forcibly adopted them into Russian families"

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Published year 2014 “At the front door I pat my trouser pocket to check for the thin outline of my passport and realize it’s not there. Always the passport, always the “dokumenti!” You can get stopped and checked for papers at any moment. It might only actually happen once or maybe even twice a year, but you still have to stand in queues and knock on doors to obtain the whole library of little stamps, regulations, permits — the legal stipulations and requirements that are themselves always changing. A little trick to keep you always on tenterhooks, always patting your pockets for your papers, always waking up worried that you might have lost them in a bar. Over time you begin to pat for the passport instinctively, your hand going down unthinkingly to check your pocket so many times a day you don’t even notice any more. That’s true power — when it starts to influence the unconscious movements of your arms.” ― Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia. Year 2014. Page 117. Think hard, ponder. How does that 2014 nonfiction book quote about Moscow apply to USA 2025, USA 2025 and ICE / immigration enforcement... Putin and Trump relationship runs very deep in the psychological levels. "That’s true power — when it starts to influence the unconscious..."

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1. Pte Startsev believed he had performed his duty for the Russian army. The former prisoner, drafted from captivity to fight on the front line, had his leg blown off by Ukrainian forces in 2024. Unable to walk and denied a prosthetic leg by Russia, he thought he was no longer useful to the 126th Motorized Rifle Regiment. But then they sent him straight back to war. "We've already paid our dues in blood. So what now? Are we supposed to f------ die?" he says in footage shared on social media this week. Pte Startsev is one of three Russian soldiers who have come forward to say they were ordered back to the front line despite losing limbs in combat.

Moscow’s army uses disabled soldiers as ‘cannon fodder’ after losing limbs in combat: Ukrainian officials said the human rights abuse was becoming increasingly common among Russian forces as mounting casualties strain Vladimir Putin’s troops. archive.ph/CUv1t #RussiaUkraineWar #putinism

NIGHTMARES

Children in concentration camps in the United States of America in 2026, this is how to return to the exterminations and genocides of the 1940s

#Trumpism #Putinism the same old #Nazism is still alive in Texas

Putin’s commanders tie half-naked soldiers accused of desertion to trees in brutal torture footage Both men choked out apologies for their alleged disobedience — but one’s cries are muffled as a superior officer forces a clump of snow into his mouth.

Russian military commanders reportedly tied a pair of soldiers accused of desertion and failing to follow orders to a tree and shoveled heaps of snow down their throats — all while berating them near the front line. nypost.com/2026/01/27/w... #RussiaUkraineWar #putinism

So let's talk about what we're not supposed to talk about I've linked to my story up above but you won't need a National Post subcription to get at the main attractions. I'll have all that here, with some new background about where all these Russian missiles and shaheds are made. Besides, the Post piece drew heavily from my newsletter on Wednesday, on War and Rumours of War. The new, long-range Geran-5 is the latest model in a line of the Iranian Shahed unmanned aerial vehicles manufactured at the Albatross Corporation's giant Yelabuga drone factory in the special economic zone in Russian Tartarstan. The components analysis undertaken by Ukraine's (HUR) released yesterday shows that the downed Geran-5 drone is powered by a Chinese turbojet engine manufactured by Telefly Telecommunications in Shenzhen, Guangdong. Several Chinese companies provided more of the drone's components, under the guidance of the police state that Ottawa now enjoys a "strategic partnership" with. American and German manufacturers are the source of the Geran 5's electronics systems - satellite navigation, telemetry and guidance mechanisms. The drone's processors, transceivers and amplifiers were manufactured by Texas Instruments, headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The drone's clock generators were manufactured by the CTS Corporation, an aerospace and defence industry supplier based in Indiana. A special converter in the drone's flight controller unit comes from Monolithic Power Systems in Kirkland, Washington. The transistor in the drone's power distribution unit comes from the German semiconductor manufacturer Infineon Technologies, headquartered in Neubiberg, just outside Munich. What makes the Geran-5 drone so different is that it's closer to a replica of the Iranian Karrar UAV, more like a winged missile than the usual Shahed-type drones. It reaches speeds of 600 km per hour - three times faster than the delta-winged Shaheds - with a range of up to 1,000 kilometres, carrying a 90-kilogram war…

It's all about the supply chains, and the corruption It's about the old rules-based order, with its high-minded pretence of global sanctions designed to protect the innocent from the wicked. It's about the new foreign policy "realism" of Prime Minister Carney's kind. Responding to reporters' questions about being so oblivious to China's appalling human rights and sanctions-evading rap sheet, Carney put it this way last week: "We take the world as it is, not as we wish it to be." It's about the new world order. It's about the timidty of European leaders pretending that President Donald Trump might have been crazy but he meant well in claiming that the United States needed to annex Greenland to protect us all from Russia. About that: All it took was a handful of European leaders to send soldiers to join an advance Danish military team in Greenland and Trump folded, leaving nothing but another tranche of inanities for American television funnyman Jimmy Kimmel to tell jokes about. And all the while, Trump's envoys, friends and family. members have been quietly discussing co-venture opportunities with sanctioned oligarchs in Moscow for a revived Nordstream pipeline, Arctic oil extraction, rare-earth minerals, Siberian nickel deposits and natural gas wells in the Sea of Okhotsk. And right on cue, Trump's billioniare golfing buddy Steve Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law and business partner Jared Kushner departed Davos and they're now back in Moscow chatting with Vladimir Putin. Apparently, peace is quite possible if only the Ukrainians would surrender and Putin was permitted to get off scot free.

How neoliberalism crashed and burned: It's all right there in Russia's new Iranian-model superdrone: A Chinese turbojet engine, with American and German telemetry. therealstory.substack.com/p/how-neolib... By @terryglavin.bsky.social #neoliberalism #communism #trumpism #putinism #Islamism

We are entering a nastier world. But this will remain a world in which the United States and Europe are linked, because our interests and fundamental values remain aligned. Trump does not care about the latter, but most Americans do, and his successors probably will as well. The reputational loss that the United States has suffered is consequential, and possibly irreparable in the next decade or so. But it is not true that a United States once viewed with innocent reverence and childlike trust on the part of the Europeans has been replaced by something monstrous and predatory with which they can never partner again. Both the perception and the reality are considerably more complicated. A more adult kind of relationship between the New and Old Worlds is possible and desirable. Providing that affection and mutual respect persist, unillusioned marriages are often the most durable ones.

The Great Divorce: The marriage between Europe and the United States has been fraught from the first—and now it might be coming apart. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... #trumpism #communism #putinism #EU

The Serbian documents confirm that President Aleksandar Vucic's administration carried out experiments with high-powered loudspeakers colloquially known as sound cannons, two weeks after an anti-government demonstration in Belgrade was disrupted by what protesters described as a crippling sonic blast. The joint testing of sonic weapons on animals highlights the depth of security cooperation between Russia — the EU's most belligerent adversary — and Serbia, a stalled EU candidate whose government is facing a serious challenge. The Long-Range Acoustic Devices (LRAD) devices are marketed for long-distance communication, but when used at close range, they can risk hearing damage. They have also been reported to cause headaches, dizziness and nausea. The government has denied deploying sound cannons on demonstrators. Serbia is in the grip of its largest protest movement in decades. For more than a year, tens of thousands of people - occasionally hundreds of thousands of citizens — have poured into the streets across the country, staging regular nationwide rallies that refiect deepening anger at the government. On March 15, 2025, during one of the biggest demonstrations, a sudden, ear-splitting noise ripped down Belgrade's main boulevard, prompting a wave of people to duck for cover. Videos filmed from multiple angles show the disturbance rippling through the tightly packed crowd before people bolted in panic. Demonstrators arriving at Belgrade emergency rooms reported nausea, vomiting, headaches and dizziness. They reported hearing a sound like "a group of motorevclists" or a "locomotive" headed in their direction.

Serbian intelligence officers tested sound cannons on dogs in collaboration with Russia’s notorious security service FSB, according to government documents seen by Politico. www.politico.eu/article/serb... #SerbianNationalism #putinism #sonicweapons #FSB

The Venezuelan military's incompetence appears to have played a big role in the U.S. success. Venezuela's much-touted antiaircraft systems were essentially not connected when U.S. forces entered the skies over Caracas, and they may not have been working for years, former officials and analysts said. "After years of corruption, poor logistics and sanctions, all those things would have certainly degraded the readiness of Venezuela's air defense systems," said Richard de la Torre, a former C.l.A. station chief in Venezuela who now runs Tower Strategy, a Washington-based lobbying firm. Russia shared in the failure, officials and experts said, because Russian trainers and technicians would have had to ensure the system was fully operational and help keep it that way.

Russia’s fearsome arsenal fizzled in Venezuela. Here’s why.
The Venezuelan regime had high-powered air defense systems from its allies in the Kremlin, but failed to set much of it up. archive.ph/2DEr0 #authoritarianism #corruption #putinism #defense

Yesterday, as President Vladimir Putin celebrated Orthodox Christmas on a military base near Moscow, U.S. troops descended from helicopters onto the deck of the tanker, dealing the Kremlin a humiliation such as it has seldom faced on the high seas. Some Russian commentators called the raid an act of war, though the official response from Moscow sounded a lot more cautious: The foreign ministry urged the United States to respect the rights of the Russian citizens on board and to "put no obstacles for their soonest return to the motherland." The standoff, reminiscent of the tensest moments of the Cold War, deepened the dilemma Putin faces. The Trump administration kicked off the year with a series of belligerent moves, first sending troops into Caracas to arrest Nicolás Maduro, the leader of Venezuela, then threatening a takeover of Greenland. Putin kept silent as the U.S. brought Maduro, his ally, to New York to face charges of trafficking drugs. While the Russian foreign ministry called on the U.S. to avoid "any further escalation," some analysts speculated that the U.S. moves against Venezuela might offer benefits for Putin, heralding an era of great-power politics in which the U.S., Russia, and China carve up the world into their spheres of influence. But the American seizure of the tanker, known as the Marinera, was a reminder that between Moscow and Washington, a vast power differential remains. THE U.S. UNDER DONALD TRUMP has aggressively pushed Russia out of Latin America while giving no apparent ground in Europe. That dynamic could change if Trump makes good on his threats to take Greenland from Denmark, a NATO ally. Several European leaders, including Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, have warned that such a move could spell the end of NATO, granting Putin his long-held wish to dismantle the alliance. In a post on social media yesterday, Trump sought to give his European allies at least a modicum of reassurance. "We will always be there for NATO," Tru…

Among Russian pundits and propaganda outlets, reactions to the Marinera's fate reflected a mix of outrage and defeatism, as they realized that the U.S. has no intention of treating Moscow as an equal. "No one is carving up anything with us," Dmitry Agranovsky, a Russian TV commentator, wrote on social media. "We are just the next in line." Some of the most influential military bloggers in Russia demanded an aggressive response from the Russian navy. "The Americans are not afraid of Russia," wrote Alexei Dzermant, a political observer in neighboring Belarus, a Russian ally. "There obviously won't be any trade of Venezuela for Ukraine."

A high-seas gambit humiliates Putin: Trump has pushed Russia out of Latin America and seized tankers while conceding nothing in Europe. archive.ph/J0uFF #trumpism #putinism

Russia's Africa footprint is deeper than imagined: Russia has increased its engagement in Africa, focusing on military presence, energy and infrastructure to secure resources and counter Western influence. www.gisreportsonline.com/r/russias-af... #putinism #naturalresources #NuclearEnergy

Dancing and celebrating on a pile of corpses.
There is no better way to sum up #Putinism.

Germany’s far-right AfD accused of gathering information for the Kremlin Alternative for Germany’s opponents accuse the party of attempting to disclose sensitive information on arms supply routes and drone defenses.

Germany’s far-right AfD accused of gathering information for the Kremlin: Alternative for Germany’s opponents accuse the party of attempting to disclose sensitive information on arms supply routes and drone defenses. www.politico.eu/article/germ... #nationalism #putinism

For decades, senior US govt. officials visiting Russia would be briefed from a book of guidelines known as "Moscow Rules." The document outlines the myriad ways the country's security agents would try to surveil, entrap, compromise and recruit American visitors. It had been recently updated to reflect the security services' increasingly aggressive posture, particularly the unit responsible for tracking Americans, the Department for Counter Intelligence, or DKRO. One important rule, say the officials who helped craft it: "There are no coincidences." Ahead of his trip, the CIA offered to brief Witkoff; he declined. Nor was he accompanied by an interpreter: He had been told that Russia's president wouldn't allow him to bring another person into the meeting.

How Putin got his preferred U.S. envoy: Come alone, no CIA.
Kremlin fueled rise of Trump’s friend Witkoff with prisoner release, sidelining career diplomats.
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You know why #Russians have so many strippers / female sex workers online. #Escape Because killing and murdering people in #Ukraine is considered fun sport by men since February 20, 2014.

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The War on Science as it goes:

Started with fighting Vaccines and Climate science.

Went on against Tariffs and the rule of law

Now fighting fighting basic Math's concepts

Rightwing #Putinism, #Orbanism and #Trumpism is destroyling our brains

Russia wants back its S-400s from Turkiye, which it used not only for air defense in Ukraine's war According to Bloomberg, Ankara is not only offering to return the Russian-made air defense systems but is also seeking a refund. One possible arrangement being considered involves deducting the amount from Türkiye's payments for Russian oil and natural gas. However, this would still require further negotiation between the two sides. Türkiye agreed to purchase the Russian S-400 air defense system in a US$2.5 billion deal signed in 2017, prompting US objections. Ankara defended the purchase by pointing to Washington's refusal to sell upgraded Patriot systems. Following the first delivery in July 2019, Ankara was removed from the F-35 program, and US sanctions were imposed in December 2020. By 2020, Türkiye had received four S-400 batteries. Every S-400 system comprises missile launchers, radars, command, and other vehicles.

Erdogan asks Putin to take back Russian S-400 SAM systems in move to win Trump's favor: Ankara hopes returning the anti-air system will reset ties with Washington and lift US sanctions on its defense sector, per Bloomberg. euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/17/e... #Turkey #defense #putinism

What to read to understand #Putinism and #Trumpism, according to Garry Kasparov.
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The USA had some of the best public libraries in the world, cultivated by Philadelphia founding father. Some of the best education institutions known to mankind. Then it was all traded for #Putinism and #RealityTV stars and "Entertainment" #FoxNewsNation and sports team owners.

Lord Hughes of Ombersley, the chairman of an inquiry into the death of Dawn Sturgess, a mother of three, said Russian spies carried out an "astonishingly reckless act" when they took a highly toxic nerve agent into a busy city in a botched attempt to assassinate the double agent Sergei Skripal in March 2018. Sturgess died after coming into contact with a liquid in a sample bottle of Nina Ricci perfume laced with Novichok, a deadly nerve agent. The Russian spies had used the bottle to hold the toxin and they discarded it after targeting Skripal. It had been given to the 44-year-old by her boyfriend Charlie Rowley, who had found it discarded four months after the attack on Colonel Skripal, a former Russian military intelligence officer.

Vladimir Putin ordered the Salisbury poisoning to demonstrate Russian strength around the world, a public inquiry has concluded: Report finds it was unlikely ‘astonishingly reckless’ Novichok attack could have been avoided by additional security measures archive.ph/phd0p #putinism #GRU

I guess that now the Establishment are starting to realize and openly admit that they have more in common with #Putinism than with liberal #democracy - not to speak of social, grassroots or cosmopolitan democracy.

The same will happen in #Europe too - despite (because of?) the current war craze.