Update from Ukraine | Urgent! Ruzzian Forces entered Kupiansk City Full Scale | Frontline News
Russia breaking into Kupiansk where Ukranians were not prepared. The Ukrainian regular army is exhausted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyXbjehy4Yg
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Update from Ukraine | Escalation Ruzzia sends more Drones to NATO | Ukraine Hits Big Refinery
Update from Ukraine | Escalation Ruzzia sends more Drones to NATO | Ukraine Hits Big Refinery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu5gEEgHsCg
How Trump’s purges weaken the CIA & Russian ship on fire after drone hit
Trump is purging the CIA of people who contributed to reports with evidence that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election. Trump is punishing people for doing an appropriate job while also weakening U.S. intelligence on Russia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNveMlSeA7o
Poland says it shot down Russian drones that violated its airspace during attack on Ukraine
Poland says it shot down Russian drones that violated its airspace during attack on Ukraine
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/europe/poland-engages-russian-drones-airspace-first-time-rcna230251
Huge explosion at ‘vital’ Russia oil refinery | Ukraine: The Latest
China has been providing drone parts to Russia, supporting Russia in its invasion for territorial conquest.
China wants Russia to win to keep Russia a larger threat. This distracts the U.S. from China.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMI8JYBvZM4
China’s Shadow Moves: Ukraine, State Capitalism, and AI Ambitions | China Watch
Trump’s tariffs are likely to produce a record trade surplus for China as imports from China are frontloaded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze8fbNgsZ0s
Russian troops mass near Poland as Putin plans to co-opt Belarusian army to threaten NATO
Belarus is partially controlled by Russia, and could be fully controlled soon. Putin has said that he sees Belarusians, Russians, and Ukrainians as one people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hM-OhDBHsc
The ‘Big Tactical Error’ in the Russia-Ukraine Negotiations
“Putin doesn’t want a deal — Putin doesn’t want a deal that Ukraine can accept. Putin wants a deal where Ukraine would essentially, now or in the future, cease to be an independent, sovereign country with ties to the West. So, I am skeptical in the extreme that a lasting peace could be negotiated.
Also, Putin’s made it clear that, at a minimum, he wants all sorts of territorial transfers. Well, it’s one thing for Zelenskyy to recognize that Russia occupies Crimea and much of the Donbas. It’s something very different for Zelenskyy to sign away Ukraine’s title and rights to these areas.
The biggest difference then, between a ceasefire and a peace is that in a ceasefire you don’t sign away your rights to anything. You simply agree to stop the war. In a permanent peace, you’ve got to sign away rights, potentially to territory, to populations, you name it.
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If you go back to the summer of 2021 and Putin’s so-called essay or op-ed, he obviously sees Ukraine as central to Russia’s future. It’s part of the Russian Empire identity and central to his own legacy, which makes it extraordinarily difficult for him to agree, in a permanent way, that Ukraine will be separate and different from Russia. So yes, it makes it very hard for Putin to agree to a final status or a permanent agreement that doesn’t give him a great deal. It ought not to rule out a ceasefire, because then he could say, this is simply a tactical pause.”
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/08/21/trump-ukraine-russia-negotiations-interview-00517411
‘Clearly a low moment’: US-India relationship sours as new tariffs kick in
“The new levies — imposed, in part, to pressure Russia to end its war on Ukraine by punishing one of its largest oil buyers — will raise the country’s tariff rate to 50 percent and are likely to inflame tensions between the world’s two largest democracies.
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The Indians, meanwhile, have shown little sign of budging on their Russian oil purchases, which the government has framed as purely an economic decision.
Now, India’s 50 percent tariff rate will be nearly as high as the 55 percent levy Chinese goods face.
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For much of this century, U.S. presidents have sought to pull New Delhi into closer strategic ties — and pry it away from its traditional relations with Moscow — through India’s membership in the China-countering group known as the Quad, which also includes Australia, Japan and the United States.
Those efforts appeared to be bearing fruit as recently as January following a meeting in Washington with top diplomats from Quad countries when India’s Foreign Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar told reporters that New Delhi was willing to nudge the grouping toward a greater defense and security focus. That initiative is likely dead as long as the Trump administration’s tariff punishment continues.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/26/clearly-a-low-moment-u-s-india-relationship-sours-as-new-tariffs-kick-in-00527196
Moldova: Russia’s next political battleground? [DOCUMENTARY]
Moldova: Russia’s next political battleground? [DOCUMENTARY]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvUouVi2us0