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CUCKTIN FATIGUE edition.

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Evidence of the influence and origin of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine

https://archive.ph/44B9Q
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323637
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323658
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323663
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323688
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323729
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323733
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323731
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323735
https://archive.ph/x1sRT#1323740
https://azovlobby.substack.com/
https://banderalobby.substack.com/

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Live maps and updates
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Events in Ukraine: https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/
SouthFront: https://southfront.press/category/all-articles/world/europe/ukraine/

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>Video Essays / Historical Background
📺 • Ukraine: The Avoidable War - Boy Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL4eNy4FCs8

📺 • Ukraine's Nazi Problem - The Marxist Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yZvWAwU5W4

📺 • America, Russia, and Ukraine's Far Right - Gravel Institute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pyVJG7_6Q

📺 • The Nature of Putin's Russia and Its Causes (3-Part Series) - 1Dime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8d6Vzi7zYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODWTfMwFGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zuygh9Mzuo

<Current Happenings

📺 • The Grayzone: https://www.youtube.com/@thegrayzone7996
📺 • DDGeopolitics: https://www.youtube.com/@DDGeopolitics
📺 • Defense Politics Asia: https://www.youtube.com/@DefensePoliticsAsia
📺 • The Duran: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdeMVChrumySxV9N1w0Au-w
📺 • The News Atlas: https://www.youtube.com/c/thenewatlas
📺 • Military Summary: https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary

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guys what will happen if burgers run out of burgers?

>>2506959
god will rise, and end chudcuckery

>>2506959
We will be swiftly updated ITT on how low vodka supplies are in Russia

>>2506965
Is that still a stereotype?

>>2506968
It is with the people most affected by a burger famine

>this is /ISG/ for people who treats geopolitics like shitty map games
I remember people said they would remove this

Burgers were invented in germany i believe. Like frankfurters and berliners

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>>2506971
They did but the mods will always add it back in.

>>2506977
based mods

>>2506975
I still laugh at that cringey boomer attempt to fix his party's anti-Ukrainian sentiment by clumsily trying to tap into the party's anti-woke sentiment.

>>2506982
If it’s what needs to be done to placate the mods, then I’ll take it because they don’t let nafoids have a separate thread /ukr/ thread of their own.

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>ziggers: erm ackshually you cant just bothsides this conflict
<Alexander Dugin:

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If EU is so evil why is their Foreign Policy chief such an absolute qt? Explain this ziggers

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>No light
>No electricity
>Dad, 100, died to prevent Ruzzians from taking the only Ukrainian ostrich farm
>Brother, 18, died to prevent Ruzzians from taking a waste heap
>Sister and Mom left for some 2 meters-tall guys in Germany
>Get conscripted if you are between 25 and 100 years old
>Get conscripted if you don't post anti-campist stuff each hour
>Get conscripted if you don't post or make daily maps where Ruzzians are encircled and destroyed
>Get conscripted if you don't post that every single Ruzzian refinery got totally destroyed
>Get conscripted if you mention Ruzzians took a random hamlet but didn't lost 100 000 mens
A..At least i don't live in North Korea..right..fellow Europeans..?

How goes the 3 day svo?
*looks inside*
Russians attrited so hard they're back to using cavalry

Day 1500 will see the return of the gladius. Calling it now.

>>2506987
1. /ukr/ has a low opinion of Dugin.
2. notice how he actually mentions the problems with both sides instead of being a glowie cunt claiming to be a both-sideser but always criticizing only one side

>>2506988
She looks like the SS woman in Wolfenstein in most of her pictures

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>>2506992
In the sense that they are both white women? Stop coping. Kaja Kallas is a goddess.

>>2506991
Ukraine is ruled by Galician Nazis who should be liquidated and the soldiers of the 3SAB (now part of the "Azov" corps) should be summarily mass executed after a round of cock and ball torture. On the other hand, Russian soldiers and mercenaries that torture Ukrainian POWs should be tortured to death and be skinned alive while hanging from meathooks. Happy now?

>>2506996
Hmm, I dunno. Does being prompted count? Or should I take only your unprompted comments?

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I bet Kaja's hair smells like Freedom and Democracy. Meanwhile Ziggers have to make do with angry babushka schoolteacher

>>2506998
>pR0mPt hon hon hon gnan gnan gnan

>>2506999
go all the way and start posting the ARYAN posters of third reich era you scummy nafoid

>>2506999
They are both mating pressable

>>2506994
Both of them are mating pressable

>>2507001
I just think that people who claim to be anti-campists should honor that label instead of being indistinguishable from pro-Ukro campists. The honest pro-Russian campist and the honest pro-Ukro campist at least have integrity.

And so the fascist state is destroying itself. Provisions for welfare and healthcare are getting destroyed whilst security apparatus spending goes up. You will lick the boot and die russnazis.

>>2506994
Blonde haired, blue eyes, a look of extreme satisfaction when voicing fascist rhetoric. It’s all there.
>goddess
That’s a yikes from me dawg, there is a spectre descending on Europe, it’s the spectre of coomers getting excited over Kallas, Marin, Sandu, Von Der Leyen when she was younger, that photo of Merkel from her East German nudist days, etc.

>>2507009
>blue eyes
am i blind or her eyes look light brown to me?

>>2507010
Nah on closer inspection her eyes are indeed brown

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>>2507008
no cash? y no cash?

>>2507009

>photo of Merkel from her East German nudist days

cmon man you cannot not post that pic here

>Kallas, Marin, Sandu, Von Der Leyen

dont care, my only goddess i simp for is melanie jolie <3

>>2507009
>that photo of Merkel from her East German nudist days
Yeah, the thirsty lads need to—
wait, WHAT?

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Putin is gay. That is the only explanation why he acts like he does towards male politicians.

>>2507013
>In February 2022, a coalition of states including all G7 economies froze approximately US$300 billion in Russian state assets.
<Ukrainian budget lacks 300 billion hryivnas for 2025
Is this some kind of coded messaging?

>>2507032
Yeah this smells like a Zelensky plot to steal all of Russia's frozen assets.

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>>2507026
Nonsense. He looks uncomfortably straight enough to me.

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>>2507037
I am talking about current Putin, not that Putin. There are like 5 of them.

>>2507041
Fair enough. Would explain the constant pining for Trump.

>>2507026
would explain his inconsistent homophobia as well

Did current Putin really say he spent a night at Blair's house, where they mingled in their pajamas, or was that NAFO slop on my feed?

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>Putin claims he stayed at Tony Blair's house and drank coffee in their pyjamas
https://metro.co.uk/2025/10/03/putin-claims-stayed-tony-blairs-house-drank-coffee-pyjamas-24328174/

>Tony Blair argued Vladimir Putin should be given a seat at the world's "top table" despite misgivings from officials, newly released files reveal.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-64116796

>>2507037
Look at their hands and fingers. That putin probably mating pressed timoshenko

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>>2507058
Just for you.

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>>2507057
>Putin claims he stayed at Tony Blair's house and drank coffee in their pyjamas
So this must be where this meme came from.

>>2507060
That putin was probably a sexual seducer specialist. Maybe current putin is a homo seduction specialist? There are different putins for different tasks.

>>2507064
What if it's one straight dude dedicated to the mission, like the Jackal character?

>>2507037
If you look closely you can see they are slightly leaning towards each other. This is why ukrainian bourgeoisie imprisoned timoshenko. She was compromised. Spies do use sexual seduction in their work.

>>2507068
You mean Putin is pretending to be gay to lure homo westoids?

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Putin has a role model you know. This guy. He is a soviet spy pretending to be SS officer. Maybe putin is inspired by that.

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So did Bush get cornholed or not?

>>2507074
Yeah, or so persuasive that he one-nights other straight dudes anyway.

Okay, I've figured it out.
He drugs them with some old KGB shit and then takes photos in sexual positions for blackmail.

>>2507063
kek, I think that was one of KampucheaAnon's AI masterpieces.

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Putin be like
>he is literally me

>>2507081
14 moments of spring is kino

Little Putin be like
>he is literally meeeew

>>2507081
Is that from The Shield and the Sword? In Putin's bio, it was that series that inspired him to enter the secret services. I've been meaning to watch it to see whether the protagonist always miraculously saves the day with cuck patience.

>>2507125
There is a playlist on youtube with english subtitles. Just type 17 moments of spring

>>2507125
You do need patience to enjoy it. Its a slow burn kind of series.

>>2507125
No, he crashes through the window of the Bundestag duel wielding MP-40s, says “Pain Macht Frei” and guns down the Nazi high command before saving, converting and then slamming Eva Braun.

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>>2506994
Russia is home to the true qt pies

>>2507144
You laugh but if Putin personally executed Zelensky in hand to hand combat and then fucked his wife after, Ukraine would have already surrendered years ago and we wouldn't have had 500 pointless /ukr/ threads of cope posting about how this time Russia really will take off the gloves.

>>2507128
Different series, but I'll give it a watch.
>>2507137
>Its a slow burn
I have no doubt about that.
>>2507144
This is the verisimilitude I like in my movies.

>>2507318
That’s a new take on this conflict
>The great cock theory
<whoever fucks the other leader’s wife first wins the war


>Russia really will take off the gloves.

Anti-campists truly are just talking to themselves the entire time.
>When is Putin going to take the gloves off?
<*effortpost disputing that framing of the conflict*
>Oh soon? I’ll check in tomorrow to ask again

so the oil tanker was a nothingburger…
… but nafo told me that cuckteen was cuckeeng to the cuckienth exponential for not nuking Paris?

Please stop saying cuck it's really russophobic

>>2507318
Putin is the great mirror of the self, a reflection of a person's personal failings. He reflects one's personal failings regardless of whether one's attitude toward him is negative or positive.

The people who criticize Putin for his weakness and timidity are typically people of middling stature (figuratively speaking) who regret a life of sloth and underachievement.

The people who laud Putin for his monumental restraint and patience are typically the most impulsive, combative, short-fused curmudgeons around.

I always wondered why TankAnon simped so hard for Putin

Verily, the dark mirror of Putin. He's actually without attributes himself, a pure monad. If you hate something about him, it's something present in your character you wish you could excise. If you love something about him, it's something absent from your character you wish you could cultivate.

>>2507318
>if action movie logic was real, wars would be over quickly
no shit

>>2507500
Wha if you love to hate something about him? Od hate to love something about him?

>>2507509
That requires more advanced study.

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>>2507124
>Little Putin be like
<he is literally meeeew
lol… true

The archetype of the Putin-Negative is Spurdo anon. You can sense the personal pain and regret.

The archetype of the Putin-Positive is Tank anon. You can see quite readily the bellicosity.

>>2507523
tfw his cumbersome, slow plan was to become president of Russia so he could meet his actor hero, instead of using more expedient measures. Checks out.

>>2507531
I am an enjoyer of torturing my enemies, physically or mentally. And this war has been absolutely torture on the Western brains.

Russia blew up another TPP lol.
Right about now is probably when the nafoids wish they didn't ride the "Russian commuters getting no gas" thing so hard, cuz now they can't pull the "Ukraine targets oligarchs, Russia targets citizens" shit again.

>Due to the critical situation with Ukraine's power grid in Sumy and Chernihiv Oblasts following intensified Russian drone and missile strikes, rolling power outages will begin in both regions, with some users experiencing up to 67% of the day without electricity.

>>2507551
Who do you think works in power plants? Poroshenko's family? Zelensky's?
This interimperialist war
must stop.
Thousands of proles have died and continue to die for nothing. Workers of the world, unite against the fascist dictatorships of Ukraine and Russia!

>>2507551
didn't take too long, LMAO.

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What are these? They seem too large for anything I'd guess.

>>2507568 (me)
Or are they just Avangards that look a little different from typical pics?

https://www.lilyslynch.com/p/the-global-sumud-flotilla-the-view?

<Moldova’s other autonomous region


>This week, I covered the elections in Moldova. That piece should be coming out today. I haven’t enjoyed learning about a new country so much in a long time. I was especially taken by the autonomous region of Gagauzia. When it comes to internationally-recognized autonomous regions of Moldova, Transnistria gets all the attention. The de facto Russia-controlled rebel territory of Transnistria might be more popular with backpackers on the “dark tourism” circuit, and it may have Lenin statues, but Gagauzia is far more interesting. First of all, the Gagauz people are Turkic by ethnicity but are Orthodox Christian by confession. They are also overwhelmingly pro-Russian. They really hate the EU and the pro-EU political party that just won the parliamentary election, the Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS). In fact, just over 3% of people in Gagauzia voted for PAS on Sunday. This poor showing echoed the results of last year’s constitutional referendum on EU membership in which 95% of people in Gagauzia voted against joining the EU.


>What’s fascinating about these poor results for the pro-EU party and for the EU itself in Gagauzia is that you’ll never hear about them. The Moldovan elections were reported on in the West as if they had dealt a crushing blow to Moscow. Of course, the pro-EU Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) did win the election. But the fact that there were such stark regional and ethnic variations strikes me as important and newsworthy. My sense is that the pro-EU/NATO side in Europe is so eager to present an image of itself as the undisputed winner in the current contest with Russia that it often papers over cracks that detract from that picture. We all know that papering over cracks doesn’t actually make them go away. If anything, cracks tend to grow wider with neglect.


>And that is exactly the way the Moldovans I spoke with this past week characterized Chisinau’s relationship to Gagauzia: as one of neglect. And indelicacy. In the few recent reports from Gagauzia that exist, the pro-Russian sentiments of the Gagauz are explained away as the result of “Russian propaganda”. There is little attempt to explore why Russian messaging would find such fertile ground in Gagauzia. Reading the handful of Western media reports that acknowledge the abysmal result for the EU referendum in the region you can tell that the journalists think that their job is to make the EU look good and popular everywhere, regardless of what the numbers say. Ironically, it is very Soviet. How big of a difference is there really between the poor sap from Deutsche Welle who encounters a 5% figure of support for the EU and who must bury it or explain it away as a product of “Russian brainwashing”, and a Soviet bureaucrat who has to fudge the numbers in a report to meet a high production quota for grain?


>Of course, there is a very real and relevant story about Gaguazia here. It is one that goes back to the late 1980s and the resurgence of nationalism in Eastern Europe. During the Soviet era, Gagauzia underwent Russification, meaning the Russian language was promoted over smaller local languages. The Gagauz language was not taught in schools, so Gagauzia was more Russified than any other region of Moldova. But with perestroika in the 1980s, the Gagauz grew interested in their national heritage and traditions. Moldovans, who were experiencing their own nationalist renaissance, hated that: they were interested in unification with Romania. In October 1990, a full-on civil war between Moldovans and the Gagauz was narrowly avoided. Gagauzia declared independence and the leadership in Chisinau mobilized thousands of people to march on the region. However, a military unit dispatched from Odessa managed to prevent any bloodshed. Gagauzia agreed to autonomy instead. Even so, the nationalist fad of the 1990s saw the Moldovan majority adopt slogans and attitudes with fascist overtones. One famous slogan used against the Russian-speaking minority was “suitcase, station, Russia”, suggesting that minorities like the Gagauz should self-deport. Chisinau still uses nationalist rhetoric to this day. In 2023, the Moldovan parliament changed the name of the country’s official language from Moldovan to Romanian. This passed almost without comment in Western media, but was viewed as hostile in Russia, where Romanian is seen as the more nationalist name and also carries pro-NATO and pro-EU associations. Naturally, it was viewed much the same in Gagauzia, where Russia is seen as a protector. In 2024, the governor of Gagauzia, Evghenia Gutul, traveled to Moscow to meet with Putin and secure his support for the region’s secession in the event that Moldova united with Romania. She also asked for Russian protection in a scenario in which Gagauzia’s separatist aims were impeded by the central government. Then, in March of this year, Gutul was arrested at Chisinau Airport, where she was to board a plane to Istanbul. She was accused of having received illegal funding from Russia for her gubernatorial campaign. In Comrat, the regional capital, thousands of people protested Gutul’s treatment by the authorities in Chisinau. Finally, less than one month before the parliamentary election, Gutul was sentenced to seven years in prison. Somehow, I think there is a bit more going on here than mere “Russian propaganda”. For its part, Turkish media has also depicted the Chisinau government’s treatment of Gutul terms unsympathetic to the pro-EU side. As Gagauz are Turkic people, goings on in Gaguazia receive far more attention here than in the West. I also find it eternally fascinating that on Europe’s Eastern flank, any nationalism that asserts an identity emphasizing separateness from Russia is to be celebrated, while any nationalism that expresses an affinity with Russia has to be suppressed.

>>2507568 (me)
>>2507573 (me)
nm, they look nothing like Avangards. I must've been thinking of something else I can't remember the name of.

>>2507568
Soyuz?

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>>2507600
Yeah, I think you're right.
Don't know why it was in an article about nukes.

Vladimir Putin speaks at a plenary session of the Valdai Discussion Club

>>2507611
Probably journaloid "assault style weapon" moment

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>>2507568
>What are these? They seem too large for anything I'd guess.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz-2

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Mathew D. Rose – Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the German Economy

https://braveneweurope.com/mathew-d-rose-never-mind-the-bollocks-heres-the-german-economy

>The above graph is rather generous. The current GDP of Germany is lower than it was in the third quarter of 2019. The above calculation is based on the fourth quarter where a small drop in GDP had occurred and rebounded in the next quarter. In other words, the German economy has not grown at all since the third quarter of 2019!

>>2507568
Russian Space Progam so bad people have forgot about it

>>2507714
Well they put all the money and talent in the petrochemical sector and just kept the parts of the space industry useful for defense or able to make money. To the credit of the engineers of soyuz they created a very reliable platform that was only dethroned by falcon 9 25 years after the fall of the ussr. And the people working in the sector they still design pretty cool missions and concepts but the state never follows on with the cash and will. Man I wish they made Uragan and more deep space missions a thing.

>>2507638
https://korybko.substack.com/p/re-evaluating-the-special-operation

Re-Evaluating The Special Operation In Light Of The Valdai Club’s Startling Insight

>To be clear, the Valdai Club only represents one of Russia’s policymaking factions and their insight might not accurately reflect Putin’s calculations, which could always change in any case.


>The Valdai Club, which is Russia’s premier think tank and elite networking platform at whose annual meetings Putin participates, shared some startling insight into “the changing purpose of wars”. It was included in the eponymous section of their report titled “Dr. Chaos or: How to Stop Worrying and Love the Disorder”, which was written by Oleg Barabanov, Anton Bespalov, Timofei Bordachev, Fyodor Lukyanov, Andrey Sushentsov, and Ivan Timofeev. They’re all regarded as Russia’s top policy influencers.


>They wrote on page 25 that “Russia would not risk its own socioeconomic stability for a decisive victory in a military conflict. One exception is direct full-scale aggression, but the probability of such an action against a nuclear superpower is close to zero…Perhaps the purpose of wars has changed. The contemporary objective may no longer lie in victories – wherein one party achieves all its goals – but rather in maintaining a balance necessary for a period of relative peaceful development.”


>This startling insight prompts a re-evaluation of the special operation, which has been going on for over 3,5 years, in no small part due to Putin’s restraint in not waging a US-inspired “shock-and-awe” campaign at the cost of Iraqi-like civilian casualties among what he believes to be the fraternal Ukrainian people. In light of what Russia’s top policy influencers just revealed, however, a complementary reason might be his trusted policy advisors’ reluctance to risk their country’s “socioeconomic stability for a decisive victory”.


>It can only be speculated what form this could take if Putin abandoned his restraint by ordering the bombing of bridges across the Dnieper, the total destruction of all major Ukrainian power plants, and/or targeting political sites like the Rada. Nevertheless, the salience rests in the Valdai Club’s implied assessment that pursuing “a decisive victory in a military conflict” presumably like the present one could lead to such risks, thus further contextualizing why this hasn’t yet happened and might never will.


>More insight followed on page 26. According to the authors, “The current system is not excessively unfair to any of the major players; in other words, it is not so flawed as to require revolutionary solutions. The world has experienced numerous social and political upheavals on its path to self-awareness, learning to manage nature and control the most destructive socio-political processes. This capability has now reached a significantly high level.”


>Moreover, “It appears that the era of grand ideas, overarching theories, comprehensive programmes, and great expectations is over…national plans – even the most ambitious – are based on existing opportunities and realistic, accessible means of expanding them; they do not require a fundamental restructuring of the global order.” This suggests Russia’s satisfaction with the multipolar gains since 2022 and its reluctance to risk their reversal through a “decisive victory” that might destabilize this new order.


>To be clear, the Valdai Club only represents one of Russia’s policymaking factions and their insight might not accurately reflect Putin’s calculations, which could always change in any case. Even so, it does indeed explain Russia’s willingness to compromise with the US, ideally with the aim of reforming the European security architecture as the grand strategic outcome of this conflict. Trump thinks that he can coerce Russia into concessions, however, which risks unleashing the chaos that Putin’s restraint seeks to avoid.

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>>2507784
The whole report is pretty interesting.


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