Aug 30, 2026

John Mahoney :

“If you are complicit, sympathetic or even simply disengaged to Russia and their criminal war on Ukraine, then, unapologetically, you are subhuman.”

https://substack.com/@johnmahoney43/p-198950503

Roman Sheremeta :

Reading news highlights from Ukraine this morning, only one thing comes to my mind – russians are plain terrorists. This is not a war, but plain terrorism and genocide.

Here are some news highlights:

• There may be a juice shortage: a warehouse belonging to Sandora is on fire in the Mykolaiv region, according to local channels.
• Prepare for disruptions in food supplies: Russia destroyed an ATB warehouse in the Odesa region overnight.
• “Clean Water” has suspended production and deliveries of water following a Russian attack on the Kyiv region. In the village of Mila, the company’s largest and most modern production facility was destroyed.
• Following Russian strikes, store shelves in Kyiv are beginning to empty, and some products are already becoming difficult to find. The biggest disruptions are affecting meat, fish, vegetables, fruit, and other goods.

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Viktor Yushchenko :

Dear Ukrainian people,

Today, grief envelops our land, and pain burns through our souls. As of four o’clock this afternoon, 37 lives already been lost… This is not merely a horrifying number. It is a terrible wound on the body of our entire sacred Kyiv region, the whole Bucha district, and the village of Myla, where innocent Ukrainian blood has once again been spilled.

The heaviest cross we bear today is the loss of two girls, two of our angels. One was a tiny two-year-old child who had only just begun learning to walk on her native soil and speak her first words in her mother tongue. The other was a fourteen-year-old girl who had her whole life ahead of her — her first love, great dreams, and innocent hopes.

They had their whole lives ahead of them! They were meant to blossom and grow beneath the blue Ukrainian sky, to help build our free Ukraine, dreamed of by generations. Instead, their lives were brutally and treacherously cut short just as they were beginning. The heart falls to its knees in despair.

I want to ask every one of you, and I want to ask the entire world: do you still wonder, do you still question who stole their childhood and their lives?

This diabolical evil has a very clear name. It walks upon our land, and its name is Putin. This monster must face the highest and inevitable judgment, before God and before humanity, for every Ukrainian tear and every life he has destroyed.

But let us also be honest with one another. Alongside him, all 143 million Russians bear responsibility for this bloody slaughter. Through their silence, their blind and obedient choices, they brought this executioner to power and have kept him on his throne for decades. Every one of them who watches the deaths of our children with indifference is a little Putin. This is their grave sin and an eternal curse that will hang over their families to the seventh generation.

Ukrainian nation! We will shed our tears and grieve through this pain, but we will not bend. We will remember every name, every innocent soul.

I pray for our little angel girls and for every person killed on our long-suffering land.

My deepest respect and heartfelt condolences to the parents and families whose grief today is beyond the power of any words to express.

Eternal memory to those who were killed.

Author: Viktor Yushchenko, Former President of Ukraine

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DW Phillips :

Mr. Federov Gives the Middle Finger to His Former Friends

Less than three weeks ago, he had a top security clearance in Ukraine.

Today, Mr. Federov is a military advisor to Italy.

“In this role, I will help Italy develop modern warfare technologies, improve its defense sector, and adapt to new global security challenges.” he writes today on social media.

Perhaps Federov’s appointment is legal, but is it appropriate during wartime for a man formerly at the highest level of military security in Ukraine to be outsourcing his knowledge to a foreign government as a private individual?

Today’s announcement is the latest misstep from a man who, less than two weeks ago, had the hearts of many in his country but quickly lost credibility by calling for elections and now outsourcing his skills during war to a foreign military operation.

This is yet another reminder that acumen and innovation do not equal wisdom. In war, as in life, there is no substitute for wisdom.

Comment from :

Marijn Markus

Shame to see.

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Shaun Pinner :

The irony isn’t lost on me.

I’m standing on a platform in Ukraine, with ballistic missiles and jet-powered drones hitting major cities. I’ve just had to evacuate a train while reading that NATO apparently needs to strengthen military communication with Russia to prevent World War III. 🙃

You really couldn’t make it up.

https://www.politico.eu/article/nato-and-moscow-must-increase-dialogue-to-avoid-accidental-war-russian-envoy-says/

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Operator Starsky :

Over the past few days russia hit numerous malls and food warehouses in Ukraine: grocery stores like ATB announce shortages specifically in Kyiv and Kyiv region. The population of the swamps, traditionally, is either completely okay with that or pretends it doesn’t know/doesn’t care, lives on another planet/nothing it can do about it (your version of typical russian excuse here).

Do you think symmetric response to this russian terror would be fair and justified? It’s not a poll, just an opinion assessment.

Most commenters thought there should be a symmetrical response. However this is the comment that OS agreed with :

Mike Casey :

The moment a state decides that an enemy’s war crimes justify committing identical war crimes in return, international law ceases to exist. Striking legitimate military targets, airfields, and oil infrastructure degrades the adversary’s capacity to wage war; striking commercial grocery stores just adopts their lawlessness without gaining a single military advantage.

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Garry Kasparov :

“Why won’t Ukrainians negotiate for peace?” There’s no peace, no security, from negotiating with Russia, even surrendering.

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Darth Putin KGB :

OTD in 1996 Russia signed the Khasavyurt Accords which ended 1st Chechen War on terms unfavorable to Russia. Almost exactly 3 years later we staged some false flag attacks to justify tearing the agreement up to start the 2nd Chechen War.

We used those 3 years to get ready to attack again. Which should not sound familair.

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Putinism 101. 

A Bachelor’s Degree. Lesson One. The duality of Putinism

DARTH PUTIN KGB

AUG 27, 2026

Greetings loyal Serfs. Welcome to lesson 1 of your Bachelors Degree in Putinism. In these lessons, “Foundations of Putinism” we will go over the basic rules of Putinist anti-imperialist thought. This is a revised syllabus based on nearly 5 glorious, victorious years of one goodwill gesture after another.

“What is Putinism?” I hear you ask. This is usually asked sarcastically by someone who denies being a Putinist, but spends their time using the exact same reasons for this war special military operation Putin does. It might sound logical to describe that as Putinism. But we will discuss in a later lesson how logic is an imperialist construct used by the woke. But if you really want to know what Putinism is, this is the course for you. 

The most important, foundational rule to understand on your path to enlightened anti-imperialism is that Russia is just defending itself. In someone else’s country. In Russia’s entire history, it has never, ever attacked anyone. That’s how the country got so big. Russia became the world’s largest country without ever invading anyone and by only ever defending itself. The amazing thing about all of Russia’s former neighbours is that always attack us right at the moment most of our army is massed on their border in attack formation, forcing us to defend ourselves and to take the reluctant decision to move our borders ever further away from Moscow.

Now, cynics might look past this current state of affairs (that isn’t a war) and ask about all the other times Russia’s army has been sent to places that were not Russia either. But they were also not invasions. As we said, Russia’s neighbours always attack Russia first. But sometimes a new country suddenly comes into existence and asks Russia for help. Also just as our army is conveniently located in large numbers right next to where they need help. So that’s not invading either. 

Other times, a certain country miraculously, and as a result of absolutely nothing to do with a secret clause in a pact we don’t mention, ceases to exist. So if a country no longer exists, and the Red Army turns up to “restore order”, that is not an invasion . You cannot invade a country that does not exist because it never should have. And if the land that used to belong to a country that was invented by Lenin then becomes Russian, that’s fine too. Because it is not an invasion. And if for good measure, everyone who doesn’t want to be shot votes to join Russia, it just proves it was the will of the people who were being oppressed by not being in Russia.

Hopefully this is beginning to make more sense, because we will get to more of this in later lessons. But for now, we must ask ourselves why Russia is defending itself. The answer is simple. The West is engaged in a centuries old plot to break Russia apart into several mutually loathing, nuclear armed statelets each run by a madman. This comes with the added benefit of massive instability along Europe’s borders and millions of refugees fleeing from war. The reason they want this utopia is simple. They are jealous of Russia in three distinct ways.

Firstly, they are envious that Russia can make its own sovereign decisions. For itself and for its neighbours. As we will discuss in a later lesson, Russia’s former colonies are not equipped to conduct themselves as actual countries and require Moscow’s gentle guiding hand to make important decisions on their behalf. This is self evident anti-imperialism. The fact that after the end of the first cold war the West kept treating Russia’s neighbours as actual countries was disrespectful and provoked Russia. But that’s another topic for a later class.

Secondly, the West wishes to constrain Russia. To within Russia. The suggestion that Russia should remain within Russia is imperialist warmongering. Jesus provided Russia with a sphere of influence over our colonies in exchange for making laws against gay people and Jehovah’s witnesses. Our saviour did this after giving Russia the anti imperialist distinction of having so much land that Russia rules 1/3 of the Asian landmass from a city in Europe.

Thirdly, the imperialists wish to break Russia apart (as described above) so they can get Russia’s resources. These are riches that the West already has, can get from someone else or will soon no longer need. This is clearly proved by how Westerners freeze each and every winter of this victorious war special military operation.

When you frame it in these terms it is easy to see how Russia’s actions are defensive. But why is Russia forced to even defend itself? It’s a good question, especially as not even the imperialists deny that Russia has the world’s largest amount of oil, gas, land and nuclear weapons. The reason they do not actually deny it as they never stop to consider it in the first place, but it still counts. Anyway, you would think with all of this going for us, our former vassals would be desperate to be part of our booming (literally, thanks to Ukraine) economy and our many clear benefits over being part of the west.

Yet despite all of these advantages, Russia actually lacks agency and must continually react to western plots against it. So you see, Russia has plenty of agency with all the influence of being an energy superpower, owning a massive nuclear arsenal and a UN security council veto. This is why you gay westerners had best not provoke Russia. But Russia also no agency at all to just, well, be a better option to its neighbours than the West is. Think of it as the duality of Putinism. A duality that means we are both attacking and defending whilst being entirely peaceful yet willing to end humanity in a nuclear holocaust. 

Here endeth the lesson. I remain a master strategist.

Darth Putin KGB

Czar for life of all Russians. Master Strategist. Tea connoisseur. Author. Window installer. Wanted in 123 countries. Parody, apparently.

https://bsky.app/profile/darthputinkgb.bsky.social