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People should be mature enough to accept that no country is perfect, not even their favorite one like Russia, and that setbacks are an unavoidable part of every military conflict.

Nobody foresaw in February 2022 that Russia’s special operation would descend into a protracted “war of attrition” that just passed two and a half years last month. This occurred because all sides underestimated each other and there were some shortcomings in hindsight with the campaign’s initial stages, which readers can correspondingly learn more about here and here. Nevertheless, many members of the Alt-Media Community (AMC) remain convinced that this was actually the plan all along.

The loss of control over the border part of Kursk Oblast did not prevent Russian authorities from holding “elections” for governor and heads of settlements in the region. The current acting governor, Alexei Smirnov, won the vote, which lasted 12 days instead of three, with 65.28% of the votes. The authorities announced a record turnout in the elections – more than 61% of residents, taking into account early voting. As The Insider correspondent found out, who visited Kursk Oblast, local residents did not receive the elections with much excitement: they equally do not trust the current authorities, nor the possibility of replacing them in the elections. And it is not surprising, because before this, the state was unable to provide either defense, evacuation, or even a missile warning system.

Ukraine’s problems are immense and multifaceted, but they’re all connected one way or another to the five following factors.

It’s beginning to dawn on most Westerners that the US’ long-delayed aid to Ukraine isn’t all that it was hyped up to be and will only at most temporarily slow down the pace of Russia’s increasingly rapid advances. The conflict’s tempo has gradually intensified as Russia exploited Ukraine’s disastrous counteroffensive to regain the military-strategic initiative. Ukraine’s problems are immense and multifaceted, but they’re all connected one way or another to the five following factors:

The United States and the UK are preparing to announce imminently that they will facilitate Ukraine firing NATO weapons deep into Russian territory, in the greatest escalation of the war with Russia to date.

Within a matter of days after the announcement, long-range missiles produced by the NATO powers, and provided with targeting data from NATO countries, could be raining down on Russian cities, clearly crossing a threshold set by Russian military doctrine for retaliation with nuclear weapons.

The United States and the UK are preparing to announce imminently that they will facilitate Ukraine firing NATO weapons deep into Russian territory, in the greatest escalation of the war with Russia to date.

Within a matter of days after the announcement, long-range missiles produced by the NATO powers, and provided with targeting data from NATO countries, could be raining down on Russian cities, clearly crossing a threshold set by Russian military doctrine for retaliation with nuclear weapons.

Le paradoxe de la situation est que l’éviction de la France de son pré-carré, éviction qui sous Macron a pris toute sa dimension mais qui a été entamée bien avant, n’est pas due ni à la Russie, ni à la Chine… On peut en effet considérer que cette éviction est le fruit d’abord d’une lutte interne entre le PS, ses réseaux mitterrandiens menant une lutte interne contre l’influence traditionnelle des réseaux Foccart se sont traduits par de vraies catastrophes dont le Rwanda et son génocide est l’illustration. Ce qui s’est doublé d’une lutte également interne entre lesdits réseaux et la soumission totale aux États-Unis pourtant occupés partout à évincer les Français. Le tout générant des influences occultes avec des groupes séparatistes ou supposés tels, entretenant le terrorisme combattu et financés par les «Occidentaux»… On peut suivre la politique française en Afrique comme des choix incohérents et très bien analysés sur le terrain d’un néo-colonialisme d’autant plus insupportable qu’il offre de moins en moins d’avantage et provoque de plus en plus de sous-développement… Macron qui a prétendu éliminer les différentes strates de ce jeu néocolonial pour y développer le pouvoir personnel et celui de sa camarilla en est désormais comme Zelensky à qui il ressemble de plus en plus à mener une vengeance privée utilisée par les US et qui les encombre parfois tant elle révèle les arcanes du terrorisme.

Introduction

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 put an end to European security as a cooperative project. That project was grounded in the so-called Helsinki Decalogue, a declaration within the 1975 Helsinki Final Act that laid out agreed principles of conduct between the West and the Soviet bloc.1 In the years and decades that followed, European security grew in complexity and scope, especially after the end of the Cold War and the breakup of the Soviet Union. Arms control agreements, institutional arrangements between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Russia, and the agencies of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) gave an ever denser structure to the security order. That order has collapsed. European security needs now to be reimagined and rebuilt during what promises to be a prolonged period of Russian hostility and obstructionism.