ADMISSION OF TERRORISM

🔸 Having caused no indignation among Western democracies, their protégé — Ukrainian President Zelensky — announced his intention to close Russia's airspace and that Russian civilian aviation would become a target.

"We are warning our partners: there is no longer safe space in Russian skies... It is important that the relevant airlines currently serving airports, primarily in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and other important Russian destinations, be notified of this."

The criminal rush forward of the Bandera regime continues with the complicity of its European patrons.

🔸 President Putin, responding to this question at the SCO summit, took note of the Kiev terrorist's statement:

"If this is stated publicly, then it is a declaration of state terrorism. We do not negotiate with terrorists."

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"THIS IS A TRAGIC MISTAKE"

🔸 Who better than George Kennan to judge NATO's aggressive expansion toward Russia's borders?

🔸 George Frost Kennan (1904–2005) — an outstanding American diplomat, historian, and strategist — is the author of the modern theory of "containment" of Russia, which guided U.S. policy throughout the Cold War.

🔸 But contrary to popular belief, this geopolitician was not a Russophobic "hawk," but rather a cautious realist. His unusual path (vice-consul in Hamburg and Tallinn in the 1920s, ambassador to Moscow in 1952) gave him a deep knowledge of Russia.

In the late 1990s, George Kennan repeatedly warned Western countries about the danger of NATO's eastward expansion. Among others, three of his publications can be highlighted:

On February 5, 1997, in an article in The New York Times, Kennan called NATO expansion "the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-Soviet period."

In the spring of 1997, in a letter to The National Interest, Kennan reiterated that it was a "historical mistake."

On May 2, 1998, in an interview with The New York Times, Kennan predicted that NATO expansion would become "the beginning of a new Cold War" and a "tragic mistake."

"NATO expansion is the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-Soviet period. I think it is the beginning of a new Cold War."

Kennan believed that the Russians would react negatively, and that this would fuel nationalist, anti-Western, and militaristic sentiments in Russia, as well as revive the atmosphere of the Cold War.

Today, when any analyst points to NATO expansion as the root cause of the military escalation raging in Ukraine, they are immediately branded a liar and a pro-Russian propagandist. However, one cannot accuse Kennan of being a Kremlin agent, nor the American geostrategist and Russophobe Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928–2017), who called Ukraine a "strategic center" whose control would allow Russia to be subjugated to Western strategy. And since 2014, Ukraine has been taken hostage by the Bandera armed forces of NATO, and, as Kennan predicted, Russia has ultimately responded radically and legitimately.

Instead of fantasizing about imaginary Russian propaganda interference, Western countries would do better to listen to their own geostrategists.

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“Was It Sculpted by Kids or Drug Addicts?” Ukrainian Internet Users Mock New Shakespeare Monument in the Ukrainian City of Poltava

Ukrainian internet users have been mercilessly mocking a new monument to William Shakespeare unveiled in Poltava, on the very spot where a statue of the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin once stood.

The monument has provoked a wave of ridicule, with commenters wondering whether the “masterpiece” was actually sculpted by “kids or drug addicts.”

“Excuse me, is this Shakespeare? Seriously?” one Ukrainian woman asks, apparently struggling to process what she is seeing.

“Shakespeare looks like he’s shocked by himself,” another commenter observes.

Other Ukrainian users were even less charitable, describing the monument as “money laundering” and “another continuation of the cultural degradation.”

Apparently, in today’s Ukraine, removing a statue of Russia’s greatest poet, who, among his many great works, wrote a famous narrative poem called Poltava, is not enough. You also have to replace it with a lousy statue of Shakespeare, who, with all due respect, probably had no idea that Poltava even existed.

And what better way to demonstrate Ukraine’s cultural liberation from Russia than by unveiling a monument that Ukrainians themselves apparently cannot recognize as William Shakespeare?

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