Did CIA's Secret Aiding of Ukraine's Refinery Strikes Do More Harm to Ukraine Than Russia?
Spoiler alert: Yes, it did. But maybe that was the plan all along.
Simplicius
Jan 02, 2026
The new year brings us revelations that the CIA has been secretly teaching Ukraine how to hit Russia’s “Achilles’ heel” by targeting specific oil refineries which were selected by CIA analysts as having parts difficult to source and replace.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/ ... lles-heel/
NYT clarifies:
“A C.I.A. expert had identified a type of coupler that was so hard to replace or repair that a refinery would remain offline for weeks.”
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/202 ... ussia.html
Most intelligent people had already long-assumed this was the case, though many of us had bet on MI6 being the leading agency behind such strikes. At the end of the day, it’s nearly the same thing, as the West’s intel agencies are generally one overlapping arm of the global deep state managed by the same interests—one need only to research the history of the CIA’s foundation to understand this fact.
Not surprisingly, the new revelations include the fact that Ukraine’s strikes on Russia’s “shadow fleet” tankers were likewise aided by the CIA.
Kyiv was using its explosive-laden long-range naval drones to blow holes in the ships, opening a new front in the war to cut off Russia’s largest source of funding and strengthen its negotiating position at US-led peace talks.
According to US and Ukrainian officials, the CIA was authorised to assist Kyiv’s military in these efforts, despite the risk of angering Putin’s regime.
The problem is, these attacks have done little more than make the situation worse for Ukraine, not Russia. They have resulted in Russia’s own escalation, for instance the current hellacious licking that Odessa is getting, both to its port infrastructure as well as energy grid.
There’s a reason it was Zelensky who recently cried uncle first, begging for an “energy truce” in order to halt the much more painful strikes on his own country’s assets. As such, all that this CIA campaign has done is accelerate Ukraine’s demise, which I suppose we can thank the CIA for doing.
There are a few other considerations. Firstly, as always we must at least be somewhat wary of these ‘revelations’ from Western rags with their infamous ‘anonymous sources’ because they always come at such convenient times wherein the elites are pulling their hair out at US and Russia’s growing rapprochement. It’s therefore easy to imagine a potential motive for faking these stories, in order to cause fractures between the US and Russia.
It’s also a little peculiar that such a ‘bombshell’ revelation came precisely at the moment that Ukraine apparently attempted to attack Putin’s residence, setting off a firestorm amongst Russian officials. One can likewise see the potential attempt to link the CIA’s covert aiding of Ukraine on the refinery strikes to the strikes on Putin’s residence in order to drive a stake in US-Russian relations.
The foiled attack on Putin’s residence, by the way, is quite interesting given that the West denied it in full at first, but as soon as Russia began to present evidence of it, the tune quickly changed. Now Western rags claim that the drones were headed to the same region of Putin’s residence, but to a military site ~50km away.
Russia apparently is taking it more seriously than initially thought, given that they have now presented to the US the captured data chip of one of the shot-down drones which allegedly has the flight and targeting data said to prove the drone’s terminal target was in fact Putin’s residence.
Note the below unprecedented video where Russian intelligence chief, head of the GRU Igor Kostyukov, hands over the flight controller to military attachés from the US embassy in Moscow: (Video at link.)
MOMENT MoD hands over KEY data to US representatives
‘Decryption of navigation controllers… unequivocally CONFIRMED that target of attack was Russian President’s residence in Novgorod region’
Military Intelligence Chief Igor Kostyukov transfers info to America
Decrypted flight plan data from Kiev drone HANDED OVER to US
MoD confirms transfer to rep. of military attaché's office at US Embassy in Moscow
Many now believe that the reason Russia is following such a formal protocol is because Russia is setting the legal precedent to sharply escalate attacks against the Kiev regime in 2026. I leave it to you to decide if that is true or not; personally, I’m skeptical, but it’s a possibility worth noting in case something does happen.
Armchair Warlord enumerates this idea:
The Russian government is HIGHLY legalistic and is likely seeking to state a basis for a considerable escalation in strikes and military operations in the coming year. They've had ample grounds to do this for some time - this incident is simply convenient to latch onto.
Getting back to the CIA story, there is one other noteworthy thing to mention.
It is the Brian Berletic-championed idea that the Trump administration and the US in general are clearly not a friend of Russia, and are doing everything in their power to undermine, sabotage, and subvert Russia while pretending to seek peace.
While this is likely true to a large extent, it does generalize and overly simplify things somewhat. It is inaccurate to view the entire US ruling class, bureaucracy, deep state, and the rest of the administrative organs, as one unified monolith. In reality, there are many long-established competing interests, and places where the deep state has entrenched itself beyond reach of Trump’s somewhat lackadaisical attempts to uproot it.
That’s not to say it isn’t useful to sometimes generalize by blanketly suggesting the US means harm to Russia, because in the spirit of averages, one would have to admit that is more so the case than the contrary. But for those seeking more nuanced and granularized understandings of the dynamics at play, such generalizations become somewhat inadequate.
One example is we can say that the Pentagon and CIA are again at odds in their objectives as they have famously been in the Middle East and elsewhere, where Pentagon-armed-and-trained forces often did battle against CIA-sponsored ones. However, when you pull back far enough, you realize even such distinctions, and such seeming incompatibilities, ultimately end up playing in the US empire’s favor anyway.
Example from 2024:
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4591 ... to-future/
Almost all of life can be trivialized or particularized depending on how far you zoom into the given point of focus, or how much you scale out or abstract the idea for the sake of a given point or argument. In this case, it may be true that the Pentagon was trying to pull back support from Ukraine under Hegseth’s new Monroe Doctrine-like pivot, while rogue operators within the CIA are clearly determined to keep the war brewing for geopolitically expedient reasons. That being said, pull back your view far enough and such hair-splitting distinctions become moot, as it all somehow still manages to create the overall favorable conditions for the continuation or even expansion of US imperial hegemony.
In short, neither mode of analysis is entirely wrong. There’s good chance that different factions within the US do have different cross-purposes, but overall, they will always strive to seek the US’s primacy and ascendancy at the expense of everyone else.
As one commentator writes:
WHILE THE PENTAGON PAUSED UKRAINE, THE CIA RAN THE WAR
Publicly, Washington hesitated. Quietly, Langley went to work.
According to a New York Times investigation, U.S. military aid to Ukraine froze in March 2025 after Trump ordered a halt. Weapons stalled. Intelligence sharing slowed. The Pentagon pulled back.
The CIA didn’t.
Granted a carve-out, the agency warned the White House that a full cutoff would endanger American officers already inside Ukraine. Exemption approved. Operations continued. Then they escalated - covertly.
With ATACMS strikes off the table, the CIA pivoted to Ukrainian-built drones, supplying targeting intelligence for hits on Russia’s war economy: oil refineries, explosive-chemical plants, and Moscow’s shadow oil fleet.
Not symbolic strikes - precision hits on components that can’t be easily replaced.
Early attempts fizzled. Russian jamming ate drones alive. So in June, CIA and U.S. officers redesigned the campaign. Fewer targets. Smarter ones. Result: refineries offline for weeks and up to $75 million a day in estimated losses. Gas lines followed.
No U.S. weapons shipped. No public fingerprints. Just intelligence, math, and deniability.
Trump reportedly liked it. Pressure without headlines. Pain without escalation.
What does this mean?
America didn’t abandon Ukraine - it split the war in two. The Pentagon paused. The CIA improvised. And while Congress argued, Langley found something that works.
This is how modern wars are sustained now: quietly, bureaucratically, and just plausible enough to deny.
If the Pentagon and CIA were working fully hand-in-hand, the Pentagon would have never suspended its strike permissions, would have flooded Ukraine with Tomahawks and ATACMs and allowed strikes deep into Russian territory. But in reality, it’s clear top US military brass wanted an off-ramp and de-escalation, while the CIA had a far bigger appetite for risk, given their unique luxury of ‘plausible deniability’.
But the point of all this quibbling is to say that Russia recognizes that the US is not a monolith and has competing factions within it. As such, any broad and simple-minded calls for Russia to cut-off the US entirely, or stop its “foolish rapprochement” based on these new revelations miss the plot, as Russia knows any major superpower like the US will never be able to act in full accordance with one unified vision, particularly a superpower wracked by parasitic deep state factions like growing tumors.
Hence, Russia should continue its measured and wary approach in continuing the current political inroads despite attempts by various factions to undermine this. In short: don’t take it personal. Nothing is black and white, and the political processes, back channels, and other partnership-building initiatives Russia has fostered of late stand to reap far more benefits than liabilities, even in spite of the other side’s feeble attempts to stick a shiv in Russia’s back. That being said, no one’s saying Russia should fall to its knees or genuflect to the US.
Some last interesting items.
As Rob Lee reports, a new analysis by CIA cutout Radio Svoboda has found that Russia has taken far fewer casualties-per-kilometer in 2025 than in 2024:
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Speaking of casualties, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin gave some interesting figures: (Video at link.)
He confirms the lopsided body exchanges everyone has been reporting on for months, stating that Russia has so far handed over to Ukraine over 12,000 AFU bodies, while Ukraine has returned only ~200—a ratio of 60:1.
Don’t forget this statement from Russian Ambassador Rodion Miroshnik from two months ago, that Russia still stores “an enormous amount” of Ukrainian corpses that Ukraine does not even want to take back.
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/did ... f-ukraines
Well, yeah, mebbe...But as Helmer has pointed out the way this was handled may well indicate misdirection away from 'things not to be mentioned'. Which does not exonerate the spooks at all, they were involved all right and for the reason mentioned but the intended target may have been different and very sensitive.
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UK mainstream journalist writes LinkedIn review of Ukraine in 2025
Ian Proud
December 31, 2025
A masterclass in talking points, name-drops, and willful blindness, penned by a reporter who’s visited the front line at least once… on Zoom.
I’m the best journalist at the Guardigraph
No one better than I am.
Take Ukraine!
No one knows it more than me
Been there at least once
..if you include Zoom calls
Have all the best contacts
Still do.
Centre for Countering Disinformation
– Top blokes!
Kyiv Independent
– Less biased than Jesus.
Andriy Yermak
– Purer than the driven snow
Western contacts too
Kaja Kallas
– Gets her best ideas from me!
Mark Rutte
– He knows I’M THE DADDY!
Toria Nuland
– Should have got the Nobel Peace Prize!
– (Great cookies too)
But 2025 has been hard
Readers are changing!
Views shifting!
Everyone is reframing
Trying to erode my true self
But here’s the thing.
Ukraine is winning!
You heard me.
You-Krane iz Win-ning!
What are these other idiots talking about?
John Mearsheimer?
– What has HE ever predicted?
Jeff Sachs?
– Sell out!
Glenn Diesen, Danny Davis, Alexander Mer-curry-and-rice?
– Who on earth are they?
Who’s paying them?
Don’t answer that.
We all know.
Been clear all the time.
Don’t even need to ask.
PUTIN!
Do you think he’s running Russia?
Standing up to NATO?
Building links across the developing world?
NO!
He doesn’t have time for that.
Too busy writing cheques!
To these quislings
And Kremlin stooges
That’s right.
And I don’t know how.
Because Russia has NO MONEY!
I mean, literally, no money at all.
4th biggest economy by PPP?
– Shut up!
Almost $400bn surplus since war started?
– TOTALLY MADE UP
Higher growth than Europe?
– Fake news!
Russia-has-no-cash!
So stop talking about peace
We just need more sanctions
20,000 sanctions already?
Plenty more sanctions we can do
– A metal factory in Yakutsk
– The Astrakhan community bank
– A doorman in Chelyabinsk
Hit them hard!
Putin will soon beg for peace
Ukraine’s a better investment
– Bankrupt is the new bounty
– Beggary the new normal
– Poverty has never been so chic.
All my friends in Shoreditch know this!
Why do they need money anyway?
They have ours!
Europe has the dosh.
Our citizens don’t need it.
Annalena said so.
Ukrainians come first!
This is not Dickens
I’m not Fagin
You want more?
You had $100 billion last year!
Don’t give me that crap!
No it’s not easy.
– German factories shutting
– Polish farmers rebelling
– French taxpayers moaning
Just small details!
$60 bn per year?
Small change
It’s a sound investment
Ukraine is fighting to make us safe!
Who cares if they’re not making us warm
Or prosperous
Or nourished.
They are winning!
– Pokrivsk, Siversk, Huliaipole all fallen?
– Can’t muster enough soldiers?
– Running out of ammunition?
DISTRACTIONS!
KREMLIN PROPAGANDA!
Russia’s army is collapsing
– Travelling on golf buggies
– Sending their cripples
– So hungry, they’re eating each other
They’re recruiting 400,000 troops per year?
Outproducing Europe in munitions?
Have air dominance?
DETAILS!
NATO is the answer
JUST LET UKRAINE JOIN!
Russia can’t say no
So they invaded Ukraine
Destroyed cities
Pummelled power stations
Took 20% of the land
Russia’s too weak to resist now
Britain has 10,000 troops to send
Estonia definitely has 15
Just trust in Zelensky
He’s Gandhi in a bomber jacket
Mandela with a golden bog
Stop forcing him into unacceptable compromise
Like tackling corruption
Ending busification
And holding elections
He wants peace more than Putin
Peace would be great for him
His citizens would be jobless
His army disgruntled
His economy in tatters
NATO off the table
When he promised it would happen
He’ll win elections by a landslide
Coz his peeps know Ukraine will be European
Even if the Poles hate it
The Hungarians say no way
And Brussels has no dough
See, they spent it all on the war
But Ukraine can still win!
Trust me.
I’m a western journalist.
Happy New Year.
Peace and goodwill to all men
Well, so long as they’re not Russian.
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/ ... e-in-2025/
Targeting Putin and New Year celebrations… Western war psychosis in desperation mode
January 2, 2026
The sick cynicism of the NeoNazi Kiev regime and its Western sponsors knows no depth.
The sick cynicism of the NeoNazi Kiev regime and its Western sponsors knows no depth.
Earlier this week, in the early hours of December 29, Russia claimed that the NATO proxy regime had launched a large-scale drone attack aiming to assassinate President Vladimir Putin. Western political leaders and news media immediately vilified Russia for “lying” and “fabricating” the allegations as a pretext to derail diplomatic efforts for a peaceful end to the conflict.
A few days later, however, the proof was in to show who the real cynics and psychopaths are.
On New Year’s Eve, as the world was welcoming a New Year, the NATO armed and intelligence-equipped regime deliberately attacked families gathered in the Black Sea coastal village of Khorly in Kherson to hear the midnight chimes. Three drones murdered 24 civilians and injured more than 50 people after a hotel and cafe were hit with incendiary explosives. The atrocity was preceded by a reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle. There can be no doubt that this was a deliberate act of mass murder.
Hours later, on New Year’s Day, also in the Kherson region, a family car was hit by a drone, killing a five-year-old boy and seriously wounding his mother and grandparents.
There were no condemnations from Western political leaders. The Western news media hardly reported the atrocities, and the few media outlets that did report used whitewashing headlines such as “Russia says Ukrainian drone strike kills 24 in occupied Ukraine as tensions grow amid peace talks.”
The NeoNazi regime has been deliberately murdering Russian civilians for four years with American and European weapons, intelligence, and complicity. Before the conflict erupted in February 2022, the CIA-installed regime was killing ethnic Russian people in the Donbass.
Ukrainian civilians have also been killed by the Russian military during the conflict. The cardinal difference is that Russian forces do not target civilians.
The mass murder on New Year’s Eve was not random. It is a repeated vile war crime that has been witnessed against multiple Russian communities in Belgorod, Bryansk, Crimea, Donetsk, Lugansk, and elsewhere.
The silence of Western governments and media shows their moral bankruptcy, if not their criminal complicity in enabling a terrorist regime to murder Russian civilians. The Western media highlights when Russian strikes kill civilians while under-reporting or ignoring the Kiev regime’s deliberate murder of Russian civilians.
It is a profane conclusion that murdering Russian people is acceptable to the Western supporters of the Kiev regime. No expense or weaponry is spared in arming the regime. Just like its rampant corruption and Nazi affiliations are ignored, so too are its war crimes.
This regime carries out atrocities against its own people, as in the Bucha massacre in March 2022, for black propaganda against Russia and to justify the NATO proxy war. It is bombing the biggest nuclear power station in Europe at Zaporozhye with American-supplied missiles, and yet the Western media spins the absurd lies that Russia is somehow bombing the power plant that its forces are protecting.
The Nord Stream gas pipeline owned by Russia was blown up by NATO in September 2022, and yet Western governments and media accused Russia of sabotaging its own infrastructure. The Kiev regime blows up oil industries of European states, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia, and the EU leaders and media say nothing, which means countenancing acts of state terrorism.
The sick, malevolent logic of the U.S.-led NATO war machine is evident. It wanted this war with Russia for decades. The NeoNazi proxy in Ukraine was installed to facilitate the aggression with the insane objective of defeating Russia.
Now that the NATO proxy war and its objective have been all but vanquished, the Western warmongering factions want to start World War III to salvage their reckless, failed gambit in Ukraine. The hundreds of billions of dollars and euros wasted on this criminal war leave Western states exposed to financial catastrophe.
Targeting the head of a nuclear power is the NATO war psychosis in desperation mode. Murdering families celebrating the New Year is depraved beyond words. But it shows how desperate the warmongers have become.
American and European politicians have Russian blood on their hands. Russia should not trust any proffered negotiations as genuine. It is not feasible to talk or reason with Russophobic psychopaths.
U.S. President Donald Trump talks a lot about wanting peace with Russia while blowing up Venezuela, supporting genocide in Gaza, and threatening the annihilation of Iran. His country’s intelligence agencies, dollars, and weapons are murdering Russian families. If the West wants peace in Ukraine, it can do that by immediately ending the weapons and intelligence it is supplying to the NeoNazi terrorist regime. Until then, Russia reserves the right to destroy the NATO war machine.
It is customary to wish readers a Happy New Year. We refrain from such a jolly greeting in solemn respect for those who died this week.
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/ ... tion-mode/
Why rich ‘refugees’ flock to Ukraine from impoverished Europe for Christmas
Sonja van den Ende
January 2, 2026
Are these still refugees who supposedly cannot return to their homeland?
Anger is boiling over in German and Dutch cities – and rightly so. While many Europeans are having to count every euro twice in this crisis of Europe’s own making, convoys of Ukrainian cars are heading east during the Christmas holidays. These refugees, reportedly fleeing Russian bombs and drones, are being well supported financially by Germany, the Netherlands, and other European countries – yet as Christmas approaches, they suddenly return home in high spirits.
At the Polish-Ukrainian border, cars are stuck in traffic jams for kilometers. Journalists report hours-long waits, and the flow of returning travelers shows no signs of abating. Families registered as war refugees are heading back to Ukraine for the Christmas and New Year holidays. While air raid sirens supposedly never cease in Ukraine, the fear of missiles and drones appears to fade. The contradiction is stark. Mainstream outlets like Deutsche Welle, whose reporter Christopher Wanner covered the border traffic, have reported on these queues (the report can be viewed here).
Worse still, if you look at the cars in Wanner’s report, many are expensive vehicles that Europeans themselves can no longer afford – because Europe is mired in an economic crisis of its politicians’ making.
Is this still fleeing war? Are these still refugees who supposedly cannot return to their homeland? Or is it simply vacation travel at the expense of the European taxpayer? Calls are growing for every refugee to be thoroughly screened. Critics argue that someone who travels to a war zone without a compelling reason can hardly claim protection. After all, according to the mainstream media and radicalized EU politicians, they should be facing death from “Putin’s bombs and drones.”
Visiting Ukraine is even advertised and promoted in various brochures and websites. The western regions of the country boast “the most colorful and unique Christmas atmosphere.” One travel site recommends: “a mini-trip to Transcarpathia to anyone who wants to immerse themselves in a fairytale atmosphere and see for themselves how ancient Ukrainian traditions are reflected in modern life. Find more New Year’s and winter trips to Ukraine here.”
These so-called Ukrainian refugees are among the approximately 6.5 million people who have sought refuge across Europe. Germany is the main destination, with over a million Ukrainian war refugees; Poland follows closely behind, currently hosting over 950,000. But are they really refugees? No, of course not. The majority come from western Ukraine, where there is no war. The people of the Donbas – now part of Russia – should be the real refugees. That is where drones, bombs, and missiles from Ukraine and NATO are flying.
But the majority of people from the Donbas, which has been Russian territory since the 2022 referendum, are evacuated by Russia when fighting approaches, as recently happened in Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk) or Dimitrov (Mirnograd).
About a million people from the Donbas have been relocated, or if you prefer, have fled and are being housed in various regions of Russia. Among them are children who have lost their parents or are searching for them. Europe calls this “child stealing,” an absurd claim. Should these children die if, for example, drones strike Krasnoarmeysk while their parents are killed or missing in the chaos? Ukraine and Europe label this “child abduction” and have issued arrest warrants through the International Criminal Court (ICC) for President Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, the Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights in Russia.
The European population is slowly waking up, perhaps too late. Their countries have already been practically surrendered to the refugee industry. It is rampant across Europe and worsening daily. In the Netherlands, for example, one hotel after another is being filled with refugees, often without the consent of local villagers or even the hotel owners themselves. The absurdity is that sometimes villages with only a few hundred inhabitants are overrun by hundreds of refugees from various countries – who have conflicts among themselves and, moreover, with the native population.
Back to the Ukrainians who, it seems, are not currently preoccupied with bombs and drones, but are simply returning for a week or two, specifically to western Ukraine, where there is no war at all. These are the profiteers of European taxpayers. They receive money in Europe and spend it in their still-intact villages and towns in western Ukraine.
Ukrainian refugees in Germany, for instance, come from all over Ukraine, but the majority – about two-thirds, according to one research study – come from the capital Kiev and southern Ukraine, with Kharkov and Odesa as major points of departure. Lvov is considered a transit hub. According to official German data, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia has received the most Ukrainians. In July 2024, 232,252 Ukrainians lived in this region.
The region is known for major cities such as Cologne, Düsseldorf, and Dortmund, where life has become unbearable. No-go areas have emerged due to high crime rates. Many remnants of al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups, or so-called Arab clans (mafia), brought there by the UN after the fall of Aleppo, Syria in 2016, reside there. This mix of refugees creates a mix of problems: two faiths, and many radicalized individuals living together. The real Germans fled these areas and cities long ago.
On social media platforms like X, discussions about the so-called Christmas holidays of Ukrainian refugees are intensifying. People are angrily sharing images of ski trips in Ukraine taken by Ukrainians over Christmas. Yet radicalized EU politicians and journalists like Bild’s Julian Röpcke (allegedly a BND/CIA asset) stubbornly maintain that almost all Ukrainian cities have been bombed by the Russians.
Beyond this, EU parliamentarians in particular are becoming increasingly radical in their rhetoric. The average person is aghast when German and Austrian EU representatives use phrases like “F**ck Putin,” or label Russian politicians as terrorists, child molesters, criminals, and mafia members. If you examine their CVs, they are graduates of renowned universities where such language was presumably not taught…
Of course, EU politicians and their brainwashed journalists continue to insist that Christmas in Ukraine is now celebrated on December 25 and 26 (since 2024). However, the reality in Ukraine is quite different. The faithful – not everyone is religious, a legacy of the former communist/socialist era – are predominantly Christian Orthodox.
Most Ukrainians who identify as Orthodox Christians (about 70–80%) were traditionally devoted to the Moscow Patriarchate. But Ukraine has banned that patriarchate and declared a new church. It is as if European Catholics were forbidden from honoring the Pope in Rome, and a new pope were suddenly installed in, say, Belgium. That is the simplest explanation. But believers, of course, remain followers of Moscow or Rome.
Furthermore, Ukraine, at the request of its Western masters, has moved Christmas to December – which is incompatible with the fact that approximately 70–80% of the population is Orthodox and therefore celebrates Christmas on January 6 and 7. Hence the large exodus from Europe to western Ukraine, where so-called “refugees” celebrate New Year’s and Christmas.
Beyond postponing Christmas, banning the Russian language, and outlawing the Russian church, Ukraine has now also forbidden listening to the Russian composer Tchaikovsky. “Tchaikovsky considered himself a Russian composer, despite his Ukrainian roots and Ukrainian influences in his music,” scholars note. Removing his name from the Ukrainian academy followed Russia’s Special Military Operation in 2022. Tchaikovsky wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, performed during Christmas and New Year’s in many European cities. One wonders: will this too be banned in Europe?
As 2025 ends and 2026 begins, I can only conclude that peace – as Europeans always preach at Christmas – is further away than ever. Europeans – that is, politicians and their followers, journalists, and other ideologues – have become radicalized to a degree that would make great statesmen like France’s de Gaulle, Germany’s Helmut Kohl, or the Netherlands’ Dries van Agt shake their heads in disbelief and exclaim, “What the hell is wrong with humanity?” How did we reach the point where fools rule the people? Well, there is a saying: every country gets the leaders it deserves. Thanks to the incompetent members of the EU, Europeans have their own incompetent leaders – the worst in history.
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/ ... christmas/
Project by MAXIM GRIGOREV "People of Historical Regions" .
— Large-scale missile-drone strikes on the energy infrastructure in Kiev have taken place, resulting in damage to 3 x Power Plants: TPP-4, TPP-5, and TPP-6.
