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Feb 27, 2026
Please note : the following video includes content from the brilliant Kharkiv resident, Dr Jade McGlynn.
“So rarely talked about is the suffering of the stolen children when discussing land swaps” as Francis says.
As Jade says, “when we hear people in Florida talking about giving up land, this is what they are condemning Ukrainians to.”
The Kabuki negotiations are a sham; a criminal conspiracy to divvy up Ukraine between the putler murder gang and the Krasnov crime family.
With reference to the “troops on the ground in the event of a ceasefire”, apparently France and the UK have committed to a brigade each. That’s about 10,000 troops. A piss poor amount but a lot better than nothing.
Apparently each side calculates an actual commitment of 15,000 troops each, to allow for logistics support and rotational requirements.
Honestly, I don’t care about their troops AFTER a ceasefire. At that point who needs them.
Tend to disagree.
A putler ceasefire, even if agreed, will be worth jack shit.
Therefore these troops will be very helpful.
I advocated for a division each: c. 30,000 troops, but it seems we will get 2 brigades; c. 10,000.
We might get 2 more brigades from other sources, eg the Scandies, the Balts, or somewhere unexpected.
That would make 20,000 troops: a useful number. Also I doubt if commanders will let them go in without air cover, so there’s that.
The UK is currently prepping up the Paras; some of our finest, right now. They will be very well-equipped and have logistics and rotational troops bringing the numbers up to 15,000. Ditto the French I expect.
I advocated for 1 division of UK troops and 2 divisions of US, plus NFZ, to be deployed in early 2014 and again in late 2021.
Those things obviously did not materialize, so we got genocide.
As far as I am aware, no official US or UK spokesperson has ever explained why we reneged on Budapest.
Instead we got pundits and lawyers pondering on what the actual obligations were/are.
I think it’s a terrible disgrace that we let them down like that.
And what will they do when the first bullet or stone cones their way…RUN
You can forget that idea.
The Paras are an elite special forces regiment. They will be deployed to fight and will have been selected for that specific purpose. The full brigade will likely also contain members from other special forces formations such as the SAS, SBS and the Royal Marines.
They could be willing and able but they will not control the theatre when the first bullet flies the slimy politicians take over. We’ve seen this time and time again.
“Intercepted phone calls between senior Russians ridiculing Trump have been shared by British intel with the Americans.”
He’s a prickly character. I don’t know what was said, but hopefully it might cause another flip; unfortunately probably temporary.
Remember that post from trump that stated that Ukraine could reclaim all her territory?
That was knocked back probably after a trumputler phone call.
Joint U.S. – Israel strikes are underway in Iran.
Two major military powers helping Iranians to rid themselves of the izlamonaZis.
But they have no interest in helping Ukrainians rid themselves of neo-nazi filth : ruZZian occupiers.
No interest as Trump continues to want to put up a hotel in Kremlin Square.