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Repost by Permission: Time For Illusions Is Over—We Are In A World War
July 15, 2025
Time For Illusions Is Over—We Are In A World War
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
A foreboding Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today first noting President Donald Trump threatened yesterday to impose severe tariffs of up to 100% on Russia’s trading partners unless a deal is reached to end the Ukraine conflict within 50 days, says he revealed about what made him issue this threat: “I speak to Putin a lot…I always hang up and say well that was a nice phone call and then missiles are launched into Kyiv…I go home, I tell the first lady, you know, I spoke to Vladimir today, we had a wonderful conversation…And then she says oh really?…Another city was just hit”—and as Moscow began assessing this threat, top Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced: “We undoubtedly need time to analyze what was said in Washington…And if and when President Putin deems it necessary, he will certainly comment on it”.
While the Kremlin assesses if President Trump really depends on his wife to make threats, that if carried out would overturn the entire global economy, this report notes, Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev most factually observed: “Trump issued a theatrical ultimatum to the Kremlin…The world shuddered, expecting the consequences…Belligerent Europe was disappointed…Russia didn’t care”—a factual observation joined with the news: “Senate Majority Leader John Thune indicated on 14 July that the Senate would likely delay advancing a significant package of sanctions targeting Russia’s trading partners”—and the leftist New York Times revealed today: “President Trump’s new plan to send weapons to Ukraine and his simultaneous threat of harsh penalties on Russia’s trading partners reflect a dramatic shift in his position on the war, but his proposals leave key details unclear…Pentagon officials said later that many details were still being worked out…And experts doubted the credibility of Mr. Trump’s threat to impose 100 percent tariffs on Russia’s trading partners”.
At the same time President Trump threatened economic war on Russian trading partners yesterday, this report continues, unelected Ukrainian Dictator Vladimir Zelensky moved to extend martial law and cancel future elections—a dictatorial power grab joined with the news: “The Ukrainian government has dismantled the Ministry of National Unity, which was led by Deputy Prime Minister Aleksey Chernyshov…The move comes after the official was accused of fleeing the country amid a corruption scandal”—and the Kyiv Independent warned today: ”As Ukraine’s main independent English-language media outlet, we have a duty to acknowledge and expose this threat…A string of recent events indicate that the Ukrainian leadership is increasingly circumventing democratic institutions and sabotaging the rule of law….Chief among these events is a criminal investigation against Ukraine’s best-known anti-corruption activist Vitaliy Shabunin”.
Along with articles now appearing like “If Trump Folds To Neocons On Ukraine, MAGA Base Will Bury Him As Biden 2.0”, this report details, it was revealed: “House Republicans on Monday night voted against attaching a Democratic amendment to landmark cryptocurrency legislation that would force the Justice Department to release the Jeffrey Epstein files”—but while President Trump enrages his MAGA base over Ukraine and the Epstein files, it was also revealed: “The Pentagon pulled senior Defense Department officials from the Aspen Security Forum on Monday, a day before the four-day summit in Colorado was set to begin…The bipartisan national security forum has attracted Republican and Democratic administration officials for years…But Pentagon spokesperson Kingsley Wilson said the event promotes the evil of globalism, disdain for our great country, and hatred for the President of the United States”.
For those Americans attempting to understand what their nation is doing, this report notes, they need to remember President Trump most gravely warning them in August-2023: “Our country is going to hell and we’re not going to be the big boy…We have power, but it’s waning…In fact, it’s waning in terms of our currency…Should the dollar cease to be the world’s reserve currency, it’s bigger than losing any war”—the American dollar has survived for decades as the world’s reserve currency because of the TINA Doctrine, as in, “There Is No Alternative”—American economists warned: “If the U.S. loses its role as the world’s reserve currency, that will cut our net worth down by 25% top to bottom”—all of which joins the news: “The U.S. dollar’s long dominance as the world’s currency is fraying as global investors warm to a “sell America” trading strategy…The U.S. dollar has long been a symbol of America’s financial dominance…But this year, the dollar has fallen over 10% in value – its worst start of the year since 1973”.
Among those facing without the fear the true state of world today, this report concludes, is Council on Foreign and Defense Policy (SWAP) member Dmitry Trenin, who, in his document “World War III Has Already Begun” released in the Kremlin today, warningly assessed to all top Russian officials:
Many now speak of humanity’s drift towards World War III, imagining events similar to those of the 20th century.
But war evolves.
It will not begin with a June 1941 Barbarossa-style invasion or a Cuban Missile Crisis-style nuclear standoff.
In fact, the new world war is already underway – it’s just that not everyone has recognized it yet.
For Russia, the pre-war period ended in 2014. For China, it was 2017. For Iran, 2023. Since then, war – in its modern, diffuse form – has intensified.
This is not a new Cold War. Since 2022, the West’s campaign against Russia has grown more decisive. The risk of direct nuclear confrontation with NATO over the Ukraine conflict is rising.
Donald Trump’s return to the White House created a temporary window in which such a clash could be avoided, but by mid-2025, hawks in the US and Western Europe had pushed us dangerously close again.
This war involves the world’s leading powers: the United States and its allies on one side, China and Russia on the other.
It is global, not because of its scale, but because of the stakes: the future balance of power.
The West sees the rise of China and the resurgence of Russia as existential threats. Its counteroffensive, economic and ideological, is meant to put a halt to that shift.
It is a war of survival for the West, not just geopolitically but ideologically.
Western globalism – whether economic, political, or cultural – cannot tolerate alternative civilizational models. Post-national elites in the US and Western Europe are committed to preserving their dominance. A diversity of worldviews, civilizational autonomy, and national sovereignty are seen not as options, but as threats.
Compromise is no longer part of the game. What we’re seeing are not temporary crises but rolling conflicts. Eastern Europe and the Middle East are the two current flashpoints. A third has long been identified: East Asia, particularly Taiwan. Russia is directly engaged in Ukraine, holds stakes in the Middle East, and may become involved in the Pacific.
The war is no longer about occupation, but destabilization. The new strategy focuses on sowing internal disorder: economic sabotage, social unrest, and psychological attrition. The West’s plan for Russia is not defeat on the battlefield, but gradual internal collapse.
Its tactics are all-encompassing. Drone strikes target infrastructure and nuclear facilities. Political assassinations are no longer off-limits. Journalists, negotiators, scientists, and even their families are being hunted. Residential neighborhoods, schools, and hospitals are not collateral damage – they are targets. This is total war.
This is underpinned by dehumanization. Russians are portrayed not just as enemies but as subhuman. Western societies are manipulated to accept this. Information control, censorship, and historical revisionism are used to justify the war. Those who question the dominant narrative are labelled traitors.
If escalation is inevitable, we must consider pre-emptive action – firstly with conventional arms. And if necessary, we must be ready to use ‘special means’, including nuclear weapons, with full awareness of the consequences. Deterrence must be both passive and active.
Finally, we must penetrate the West’s information shield. The battlefield now includes narratives, alliances, and public opinion. Russia must once again learn to engage in others’ domestic politics, not as an aggressor, but as a defender of truth.
The time for illusions is over. We are in a world war. The only path forward is through bold, strategic action.
[Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]
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Repost by Permission: Trump Starts Using Vietnam War Propaganda To Justify Killing More Ukrainians
July 14, 2025
Trump Starts Using Vietnam War Propaganda To Justify Killing More Ukrainians
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
A thought-provoking new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today first noting President Putin correctly assessed: “Western nations hegemonic aspirations and dismissal of Russia’s security concerns have led to the ongoing standoff between Moscow and the West”, says he also most factually observed: “Some former colonial empires – Great Britain, France – hold us responsible for the collapse of their colonial empires…And this historical memory, this historical negativity still remains, I can see it, oddly enough”.
Enraged over losing his colonial empire because of Russia, this report notes, French President Emmanuel Macron proclaimed: “To be free in this world you must be feared, to be feared you must be powerful…While we had planned to double the defense budget by 2030, we will double it by 2027…There will be €64 billion for defense in 2027, that’s twice more than in 2017…It’s a new, historic and proportionate effort”—a warmongering proclamation joined with the grim news: “Under Emmanuel Macron’s leadership, France is grappling with a poverty crisis not seen in three decades…Instead of fostering self-reliance and growth as promised during his presidential campaign, his policies have fueled dependency on temporary government handouts, leaving millions in dire straits as those crutches are withdrawn”.
As the leader of the socialist Western colonial powers plunging their citizens into poverty in order to take revenge of Russia, this report continues, yesterday it saw President Donald Trump declaring about Ukraine: “We will send them Patriots, which they desperately need, because Putin really surprised a lot of people…He talks nice and then bombs everybody in the evening…But there’s a little bit of a problem there…I don’t like it”—a declaration followed by the news: “Over the past 24 hours, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed two launchers of the American Patriot air defense system, and also destroyed one radar station of the complex”.
Earlier today, this report details, President Trump’s special envoy Keith Kellogg arrived in Kiev, which followed neocon warmonger Senator Lindsey Graham warning yesterday: “The game, regarding Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, is about to change…I expect, in the coming days, you will see weapons flowing at a record level to help Ukraine defend themselves”.
Also earlier today, this report notes, Ukrainian Dictator Vladimir Zelensky warningly declared: “Our units will continue to destroy the occupiers and do everything possible to bring the war onto Russian territory…We are preparing our new long-range strikes”—a warning declaration joined with the news: “President Donald Trump plans to arm Ukraine with offensive weapons…The offensive weapons would reportedly include long-range missiles that could reach targets deep inside Russian territory, including Moscow”—but in knowing that Russia will swiftly retaliate against any Western nation supplying long-range weapons to strike Moscow, it caused German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius to swiftly proclaim today: “Germany will not supply Ukraine with additional Patriot air defense systems nor long-range Taurus missiles”.
Though Russia and Ukraine don’t release causality reports about their own forces, this report continues, Mediazona, in collaboration with the BBC News Service and a team of volunteers, maintains a named list of deceased Russian military personnel available in public records, and documents today: “At least 116,718 confirmed Russian military deaths from 24 Feb 2022 to 3 July 2025”—over a year and half ago, in January-2024, it saw top Ukrainian government official Yuriy Lutsenko revealing: “I think that they should name the number of dead Ukrainians…I know that they don’t want this, and it will be taken seriously…Yes, it will be a shock…We must honestly say that the 500,000 that are now being talked about if divided into months, is 30,000 a month”—and is a monthly death toll increasing, as the Ministry of Defense (MoD) announced that Russian military forces killed over 9,130 Ukrainian soldiers over the week ending on 28 June, Russian military forces killed over 9,100 Ukrainian soldiers over the week ending on 5 July, and Russian military forces killed over 8,560 Ukrainian soldiers over the week ending 12 July.
Last month, this report details, President Putin announced: “We gave more than 6,000 bodies of Ukrainian servicemen…In return we received 57”—an announcement joined with the news: “Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers agreed in September 2024 to increase the one-off payment to the families of the fallen to around $544,000…So the compensation figure for the 6,000 soldiers will run to $3.6 billion in an already overstretched Ukrainian state budget which is being subsidized by western nations…And this marks just the tip of the iceberg”—and when Ukraine first refused to take back its own war dead, Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev raged: “The Kiev bastards don’t want to take the bodies of their dead soldiers…There are two reasons: it’s scary to admit that there are 6,000 of them and they don’t want to pay widows”.
In an exact replay of its failed Vietnam War propaganda strategy of using the body count to justify eventual victory, this report concludes, last week it saw President Trump’s top foreign policy official Secretary of State Marco Rubio lyingly declaring: “On the Russian side, they’ve lost 100,000 soldiers – dead, not injured – since the start of 2025”—a lying declaration quickly countered by world-renowned American strategic defense analyst Simplicius the Thinker, who, in his document “Rubio Claims Russia Suffered 100k KIA in Six Months, Ukrainian Casualties Remain ‘Vague’”, most factually observed:
The topic of casualties is one we periodically revisit when necessary. Now is such a time, as Marco Rubio has made the absurd claim—coordinated with MSM outlets—that the Russian Army has suffered a whopping 100,000 deaths just since January of this year alone; purely deaths, not even total casualties.
This was immediately backed up by new articles, like the following from the Economist, which likewise claims Russia is experiencing its deadliest year on the front yet, with 30,000+ deaths just in the past couple months alone.
The above article is a particularly egregious example. Just take a look at their methodology, or lack thereof. This small extract constitutes the entirety of their ‘scientific’ premise for Russian losses:
“There is no official tally of losses on either side. But our daily war tracker offers some clues. Our satellite data and shifts to areas of control suggest when the fighting is intensifying. This lines up well with more than 200 credible estimates of casualties from Western governments and independent researchers. By combining this data we can, for the first time, provide a credible daily death toll—or an estimate of estimates.”
In short, they claim their satellite data alerts them to where fighting happens to ‘intensify’, and from that they—by some incredible leap of logic—infer that Russian forces are experiencing massive losses.
The baffling part is that this facile methodology should apply to the Armed Forces of Ukraine in parallel as well, yet when it comes to Ukraine’s losses, the Economist’s staff are without even a hint of curiosity:
Read that again: satellite data showing “intense fighting” inherently points to Russian losses merely on the assumption that any fighting, as a general rule, results in Russian but not Ukrainian losses. This is an astoundingly juvenile, biased, and to be frank, fraudulent, level of analysis.
These publications claim to have such ‘sensitive’ attunements to the battlefield fluctuations as to give exact Russian figures, but when it comes to Ukraine, they are suddenly lacking data.
The fact is, there’s a reason why MediaZona very abruptly changed up their methodology to include “projected” deaths rather than real counted ones, as done previously—because contrary to this coordinated propaganda campaign, Russian losses have actually been at the lowest in a long time.
This is precisely the reason such an orchestrated campaign was necessary: Ukraine is badly losing, and the only remaining aspect of the war the propagandists could feasibly utilize to try and spin the narrative are the casualty figures, because they are typically the most ‘subjective’ and ambiguous in nature—which makes them perfect fodder for devious manipulation.
[Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]
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