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Nov 20 2025 
Full subbed version of visit of Vladimir Putin to the command post of the West group of forces.
East Calling translated the full video of the meeting with the command of the West Group of forces. Kupyansk is liberated!
https://eastcalling.substack.comWatch now
The Supreme Commander-in-Chief visited one of the command posts of the West group, where he held a meeting with the Chief of the General Staff, the Chief of the Main Operations Directorate, the Commander… Continue reading
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Nov 14 2025 
China massively fuels Russia’s war chest, says Finnish defense minister
NATO having spent $400B, armed 32 countries to the teeth, and still got humiliated by the glorified gas station they mocked for decades, and now Finland’s defense minister is lashing out at China because he can’t face the truth:
Russia crushed the West’s entire Ukraine project, and the people who promised “as long as it takes”… Continue reading -
Nov 11 2025 
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Russian media outlets
https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/2058518/
Question: Moscow and Washington have almost simultaneously announced nuclear test plans. Does this signify global instability or rather demonstrate equal capabilities and thus the preservation of parity?
Sergey Lavrov: I have heard nothing about Moscow announcing nuclear tests, so it is inaccurate to say that Washington and Moscow made such statements simultaneously.
As I mentioned in a… Continue reading
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Nov 10 2025 
The Continual War Against Russia & Its Primary Defense Mechanism–Ethnic Unity
As disclosed at the 90-minute meeting of the Presidential Council for Interethnic Relations.
With thanks to Karl Sanchez from karlof1’s Geopolitical GymnasiumFeatured Image: Ethnic groups map that still comes up short of the overall total but offers a good look.
The Interethnic Relations Council looks big but still falls short of having a representative from all 194 ethnic… Continue reading
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Nov 08 2025 
Fyodor Lukyanov: Trump hasn’t changed America, but he has revealed it
The “rules-based order” is dead and Washington now acts without boundaries
Fyodor Lukyanov
A year has passed since November 2024, when Donald Trump won the US presidential election for the second time. And it makes more sense to start the clock there, rather than on Inauguration Day. The political and psychological shift began immediately. From that moment,… Continue reading
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Nov 05 2025 
RSC Discusses Trump’s Vow to Test Nukes
Minister of Defence Belousov at the Russian Security Council (RSC): “… the United States plans to adopt the new Dark Eagle medium-range missile system with hypersonic missiles with a range of 5,500 kilometers at the end of this year.”
with appreciation to Dr. Karl at karlof1’s Geopolitical Gymnasium.
Russian Security Council met in person instead of the… Continue reading
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Nov 04 2025 
Russian idea-dream of the XXI century
Sergei Karaganov & Pavel Malyutin
We have not fully defined our identity. In the concept of foreign policy, we finally called the obvious a long-standing: we are a state-civilization.[1] However, a significant part of society can not part with the long-standing retrograde desire to be Europeans. Meanwhile, since the time of Alexander Nevsky, the founder of… Continue reading
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Nov 01 2025 
Maria Zakaharova on Venezuela and drugs in the US
Response of the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs M.V. Zakharova to a media question regarding the situation around Venezuela (November 1, 2025)
❓ Question: In recent days, US military provocations in the southern Caribbean region have increased, carried out under the pretext of combating drug trafficking. The number of casualties is growing,… Continue reading
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Nov 01 2025 
Russian MoD Today
In conjunction with this post, Pokrovsk and lessons from Stalingrad, here is the Russian MoD today. You can read through and see that nobody gets out of a cauldron, not even in small groups. There is no opportunity for retreat. The Ukies movie, the Ukies die. Their choices are to die or to surrender. They… Continue reading
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Oct 30 2025 
Trump’s Nuclear Jokes
“…I believe it is time to accept the rules of the game proposed by the Americans.”
By Rotislav Ishchenko at ukraine.ru.
(machine translation)
A true American, regardless of his mood, must have a broad, radiant smile. This is an important component of the American dream.
In the 15th-17th centuries, it was fashionable to have bad teeth in Europe. Sugar… Continue reading
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Oct 29 2025 
A very remarkable Ukraine frontline report: about those cauldrons and the soldiers within them
Marat Khairullin hits it out of the park! I have not included the maps, but do take a look at them on the substack. https://maratkhairullin.substack.com/p/afu-against-afu-who-will-take-revenge
I guarantee you, you will not need the maps to understand this wonderful writing with its vast promise of how to deal with these issues in our world. What was more… Continue reading
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Oct 27 2025 
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Ultrahang Youtube Channel
https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/2055699/#sel=46:39:j,46:39:j
[Note: This is a very good overview of the complete process of the start of the SMO and the US intervention in the process of making peace. That part is serious. The part that is different, is that Mr Lavrov is continuously trolling. If you want to see a highly competent and enormously talented Foreign… Continue reading
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Oct 26 2025 
Burevestnik Nuclear Cruise Missile: Russia’s Absolute Deterrence
An uncomplicated explanation of what this missile is. From Sputnik
A test has demonstrated the missile’s ability to evade enemy missile defense systems, Chief of General Staff Gerasimov has told President Putin.
Here’s what makes Burevestnik a genuine strategic gamechanger.
The defining feature of the 9M730 Burevestnik (Russian ‘Storm petrel’, NATO reporting name SSC-X-9 Skyfall) is its nuclear… Continue reading
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Oct 23 2025 
Putin’s comments on Budapest meeting cancellation? postponement
Answers to media questions
Following a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Russian Geographical Society, Vladimir Putin took questions from media members.
Question: Yesterday, we heard yet another statement by the US President regarding him either meeting with you or not meeting with you, and the Ukraine crisis, too. Almost at the same time, the United States imposed sanctions on Russian oil companies.
Today, the EU imposed another round of anti-Russia sanctions, this time… Continue reading
