Cemil Kerimoglu

From Baltic to the Black Sea

Oct 6, 2026

Russia’s threat to the West lies not only in its perceived ability to attack. Its threat is more insidious. Its harmful influence runs much deeper. Even if it never attacks, it will continue to rot and demoralize Western societies from within.

The tentacles of Russian influence reach very deep. They bribe, blackmail, and gather kompromat. But even that only scratches the surface. In many cases the influence appears innocuous. They finance an event, or take part in a discussion club or a think tank, and in this way promote their narratives, without the participants even noticing that they are being influenced.

The topics themselves may be innocuous, having nothing to do with Russia directly. Yet Russian influence can still subtly shape Western consciousness.

In the case of Donald Trump Jr., however, contrary to what the article claims, I do not think he was conned, or that being warned about Russian financing would have changed anything. Not that he needed to be warned: I am sure he was fully aware of who was financing his wedding.

Donald Trump Jr. is one of the most odious figures in the MAGA movement. His rabid, even hateful, anti-Ukrainian rhetoric, combined with unabashed support for Russia, is well known. In a sense he, and figures like J.D. Vance, are even worse than his disgraceful father.

Donald Trump is cynical and amoral. He probably grasps who the good guys and the bad guys are in the confrontation between Ukraine and Russia. He simply does not care; he wants to make money. With his odious son and with J.D. Vance, things are different. They are convinced that the Russians are the good guys. That the moral high ground lies with the Russians. That supporting Russia, not Ukraine, is the morally right position: not merely a beneficial one from a cynical perspective, but a morally right one. That is the problem with such pro-Russian figures. They represent the lowest depth of moral depravity.

One can truly gauge a person’s moral worth by his stance on Russia versus Ukraine. If someone supports Russia, and this includes prevaricating, blaming “both sides,” or wishing “peace for both sides,” you can be sure that he is a morally depraved person. You do not need to know anything else about him, and nothing else matters anyway. Ukraine is the litmus test, in fact the best litmus test currently available. If someone is pro-Russian, he is an evil person in principle. And if someone is pro-Ukraine, he is at least a decent person, whatever other shortcomings he may have.

This is what Russia does to Western societies. It finds the worst of the worst and elevates them: the most depraved, the most odious, the most evil individuals it can find, and it promotes them. In this sense, Russia is like Satan. For that is essentially Satan’s defining feature: he whispers to our weaknesses so that our bad traits prevail over our good ones. If you imagine society as a single organism, and the people who populate it as its different traits, the parallel becomes even clearer. Russia speaks to the worst people, that is, the worst traits, in our societies and elevates them so that they may prevail over the good.

That is why Russia must not simply be contained. It must not simply be defeated in Ukraine. Russia must cease to exist. It must be destroyed. Totally. Demilitarized, denuclearized, and disintegrated into dozens of independent post-Russian states, each with its own national or regional identity that disavows the “Russian” past.

Russia must be destroyed. Whatever it takes. Russia delenda est.

https://www.lavocedelpatriota.it/en/the-west-must-resist-the-temptation-to-save-russia-an-interview-with-cemil-kemiroglu-1/

American Betrayal | How Putin’s Operatives Conned MAGA’s Firstborn, Don Jr. 

All your allies will force you to the border; the men at peace w/ you will deceive you & overpower you. Those who eat your bread will set a trap for you—but there is no discernment in him. Obadiah 1:7

LEV POLYAKOV

OCT 01, 2026

Russia’s war against civilization itself has had its share of victims not limited to the Ukrainian people, and such is nowhere better illustrated than the case of Donald Trump Jr.

This poor man must surely have so trusting of a nature, such a oversized heart, that Putin’s oligarch friend Umar Kremlev managed to claw his way into Don Jr.’s life—and pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for private island rentals and a fireworks show for his wedding celebrations. 

If only the oldest Trump son knew of the danger someone like Kremlev brings, he would never have allowed such a friendly relationship to continue. And we’re talking about someone who is not just a twice-convicted criminal with a rap sheet covering extortion and violent assault, but a central financial operator for the Kremlin who was handed control of Russia’s national lottery and sports betting monopolies, acts hand-in-glove with Vladimir Putin’s personal security chief, serves as a high-level delegate accompanying Putin on state visits to China1, and carries formal international sanctions from Ukraine due to his deep ties to the Russian state’s war machine and intelligence apparatus.

But alas, Donald Jr.’s friends likely did not step up to warn him in time of these misdeeds. After all, nobody wants to hear bad news—and only the freaks and outcasts of society have zero shame in spreading it.

Such is the case with 1789 Capital, the venture firm where Don Jr. serves as a partner2, which backed Tucker Carlson’s media network . One has to imagine the sheer, heartbreaking betrayal poor Don Jr. must have felt—forced to maintain a stoic, ironclad front for the sake of MAGA unity—when Carlson later turned around to openly accuse the Trump administration of covering up the Jeffrey Epstein files, publicly floating that Trump himself might be implicated in them.

Don Jr. only joining 1789 after his father’s presidential win only makes his wound sting all the more.

That Tucker admitted in leaked text messages he “hates him (Trump) passionately” is yet one more thing Don Jr. should have been told of before deciding to finance this man’s media empire.

Yet, perhaps preserving this sacred MAGA unity required a strict conspiracy of silence.

In all likelihood, Don Jr. was safely kept in the dark by a protective ring of speak-no-evil underlings and pundits too terrified of falling out of favor to break the bad news—even though everyone should have known the honorable, truth-seeking nature of Don Jr. would naturally reward them for the warning if only it arrived in time.

Sadly for all of us, not only was he never warned, but his fellow Patriot, Vice President JD Vance, seems to share an equally king-sized heart which Russian influencers have taken just the same advantage of.

And since we know Vance was brought into the Vice Presidency in large part through the combined efforts of Don Jr. and Tucker Carlson, it should be obvious to all those who rightfully criticize Tucker instead of patriots like Vance or Don Jr., that Tucker is exclusively to blame for the spread of these Russian lies which only served to aid our foreign enemy:

When Tucker said: “…What exactly were they doing in these secret Ukrainian bio labs? They were working on bio weapons.”, Vance and Don Jr. were likely duped into echoing the framing across media appearances and social platforms to cast deep suspicion on Western involvement.

In objective reality, however, the United Nations (along with international organizations and independent watchdogs, noting that the UN stated it was “not aware of any biological weapons program” and the World Health Organization advised on securing public health labs) verified these standard cooperative biological research facilities were completely devoid of offensive bioweapons programs.

Tucker spun the invasion as a defensive reaction forced upon Moscow by relentless NATO expansion and American meddling. And unfortunately Vance said that the U.S. has no viable path to victory and must force Ukraine to cede massive territorial chunks because the conflict is fundamentally unwinnable. Don Jr. likewise claimed that European allies and Ukrainian leadership were simply running a corrupt money-laundering scheme that ordinary Americans shouldn’t bankroll.

But anyone with a non-compromised brain knows that it was a premeditated, full-scale imperial invasion designed to erase a sovereign nation’s right to exist, completely unprovoked by any military threat from the West. Even Putin’s own Yevgeny Prigozhin—the late head of the Wagner Private Military Company—explicitly stated that the official narrative of an imminent, aggressive threat from Ukraine and NATO was a complete fabrication.

Or my favorite, The “Putin Wants Peace” Illusion:

Vance insisted that “we’re talking about bargaining over a few square kilometers… over time, their positions have gotten closer and closer together” and that negotiations can easily bridge the gap. Meanwhile, Tucker and Don Jr. amplified the sentiment that holding out for 1991 borders is a fool’s errand engineered by warmongers.

But Moscow’s baseline demands have never shifted from total capitulation, permanent demilitarization, and the outright annexation of sovereign regions.

Hopefully, by looking at this record side-by-side, even the most skeptical observer can finally appreciate just how thoroughly and innocently these two patriots have been taken for a ride.

Of course, if one were to entertain the alternative—that they are not merely mistaken, but operating from a cold, strategic calculation in favor of an “ally with Russia against China” Reverse Nixon framework—then the situation gets slightly more complicated, yet nevertheless a solution is provided.

This is the same Steve Bannon strategy which his advisor Vish Burra mentioned on Break The Rules that he encouraged us to convince the Bannon Camp was a “Fool’s Errand”.

“…End the Dream that Russia and China can ever be separated.” – Vish Burra, Steve Bannon’s top aide. 

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The problem, however, is not that people with a vision like Bannon, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, JD Vance, or Don Jr cannot change their minds, as intelligent people can shift their strategy once they account for factors they were not aware of—rather our problem has to do with those yet un-named people within the superorganism of political power and techno-capital whose lavish existence depends on the Russian war machine to sustain.

Perhaps you still persist in pointing fingers at the people we know like Don Jr. and Vance as the scapegoats, even after being made aware of these nefarious multitudes of anonymous Russian assets circulating in an otherwise healthy ecosystem.

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Maybe you justify such beliefs by recalling how Don Jr. once so proudly boasted about the Trump organization getting an infusion of Russian capital when traditional lenders shut their doors. Names like Felix Sater and Tevfik Arif come to mind who brought in a total of millions in foreign backing along with more traditional structures like Deutsche Bank supplying the rest.

But believe you me… that in itself in no way means such influence made him believe Ukraine was merely a minor regional dispute or a puppet state as he is a free thinker limited only to what he has been made aware of. So instead I blame Tucker the Treacherous along with his horde of Yes-Men who could possibly be financially interested in perpetuating the Russian war machine.

Where leaders like Don Jr. and JD Vance are guided purely by their own untainted consciences, weaker men are naturally susceptible to the kind of financial gravity that aids Tucker in pulling the wool over the eyes of their superiors.

And if Don Jr and Vance are more of the brain, then Steve Witkoff is more of the heart which is weaker on its own against predatory brains like those of the FSB. He is a man who I believe wants people to like him so becomes agreeable to the point of blind faith.

For example, Witkoff said that Putin was ready to pull back from the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions as told to him by Putin, while in reality it was a total fabrication or a product of him simply swallowing and repeating the Kremlin’s lines without question.

That such a false reality is allowed to enter love-seeking people like Witkoff through the heart could possibly be lubricated further by his complex web of real estate and financial alignments that tie elite American developers into post-Soviet capital streams.

And Witkoff’s son may have inherited such a heart as well, seeing as how he is also a part of the Tucker supporting 1789 Capital.

A HOPE FOR THE FUTURE

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I am imagining a time where we can say for sure who knowingly profited from the Russian invasion and worked against America’s interests, but in order to even be against something like America and liberty requires one to usually care about some greater idea, even if it’s disastrously stupid like Communism.

What’s an even more disturbing proposition would be the emptiness of political figures who are connected to mass man through popular podcasting media figures like Joe Rogan, a man who sought power in Comedy followed by power in Politics and got what he dreamed of to the curse of us all.

Yet, Rogan nevertheless inspired me to podcast from his curiosity about the mysteries of the universe and talk about “the elites”. Which becomes doubly ironic when we observe Rogan becoming the thing which he fantasized about in the form of attending Peter Thiel’s parties and turning into the “Comedy Czar” for Trump’s establishment.

Since then, I ended up hosting a debate between my friend Curtis Yarvin VS former US Ambassador to Ukraine, John Herbst, in Washington DC—so in a way, the influence came back around for the sake of Ukraine rather than the Russian waters Rogan himself has been stewing in these past years.

It’s pretty hard to blame them when we really think about it. The position of those at the top intersection of attention and power depends on the intellectual state of all those below them—just think about it. All those with wisdom would never seek such levels of fame, even if they want to shape reality. They’d just figure out how to do it in the privacy of a natural setting, not too far from their loved ones and friends.

Yet, what separates us from descending to the 9th Ring of Hell which is Russia, is that 211 Republicans in the House voted in favor of advancing the procedural hurdles for the “Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act”, positioning the legislation for its final floor votes.

This was against two dissenting Freedom Caucus Republicans and a party line voting Democrat majority of 209. And does this not just nakedly show how dedicated the Democrats are to ending the Russian War Machine as well?

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There will be more people on the side of good, but they are rarely the people who seek power like Joe Rogan or Tucker Carlson. Instead they are your everyday patriots that realize Ukraine is the front line of defense of the Civilized West against the encroachment of those who are cruel and stupid.

I am sure that many of them likewise realize that maintaining a financial lifeline to Moscow is fundamentally incompatible with participating in Western-backed economic structures.

Regardless of their imperfect track records, there is no doubt they stand on the side of good. Just by lending their political support to the number of votes which won by a margin of 3, these 211 Republicans and two Democrats helped save the lives of Ukraine’s people.

And the hour is getting late with Russia’s paranoid desperation rising so it commits attempted assassinations of US General David Petraeus and other high-ranking Western figures right at the border of NATO, as well as orchestrating domestic terror and murder-for-hire plots on Western soil:

But where this will hopefully lead the 1789 people thanks to the now fully informed Trump Jr and JD Vance, is towards helping Ukraine win, and win bigly.

So if there turns out to be Russian money within the 12 billion private donors to 1789, Don Jr will keep this money flowing as usual until Russia is soundly defeated, but also manage to convince his fellow 1789 investors to not let this money influence their views on Ukraine, or even steer them to supporting Ukraine.

By the time Russia catches wise to this monumental policy shift of a 1789 Capital made aware of Russia’s inhuman treatment of prisoners and wanton murder of Ukrainian civilians including children, the jig is up, but hopefully the final amount will be enough for some missiles to be sent Ukraine’s way.

In the wise words of NATO Soviet Peacemaker John Lennon, “You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one”. And while the world being “as one” is not yet on the to-do list, being as one to help Ukrainian children wake up feeling safe is as good of a life as anyone can hope to achieve.

1

In the days leading up to Trump Jr.’s wedding, Kremlev was in China as part of the delegation accompanying Putin, according to Chinese state media. The month before, Putin had bestowed him with a state honor, the Order of Friendship. The Ukrainian government has imposed sanctions on Kremlev personally, citing his closeness to Putin and Russian security services. Available at: ProPublica Investigation.

2

Donald Trump Jr. joined the venture capital firm 1789 Capital as a partner in November 2024, just days after the presidential election.

https://levslens.com/p/american-betrayal-how-putins-operatives