This was the mood in informed Moscow – only a few hours before the renewed Istanbul kabuki on Russia-Ukraine “negotiations”. Three key points.
- The attack on Russian strategic bombers – part of the nuclear triad – was a US-UK joint operation. Especially MI6. The overall tech investment and strategy was provided by this intel combo.
- It’s patently unclear whether Trump is really in charge – or not. This was confirmed to me at night by a top intel source; he added that the Kremlin and the security services were actively investigating all possibilities, especially who issued the final green light.
- Near universal popular consensus: Release the Oreshniks. Plus waves of ballistic missiles. Predictably, the Instabul kabuki came and went like a tawdry spectacle, complete with the Ukrainian delegation in military fatigues and Defense Minister Umarov incapable of speaking even mediocre English at a messy press conference after the brief 1h15 meeting. The Turkish Foreign Ministry epically described the kabuki as concluding “not negatively”. Nothing strategic or politically substantial was discussed: only prisoner exchanges. The mood in Moscow, additionally, was that top Russian negotiator Medinsky should have presented an ultimatum, not a memorandum. It was, predictably, interpreted as an ultimatum by the Beggar of Banderastan; but what Medinsky actually handed out to the Ukrainians was a de facto road map memorandum, in 3 sections, with 2 options for the conditions for a ceasefire, and 31 points, a great deal of them expressed in detail by Moscow for months. Examples: first option for a ceasefire should be a complete UAF withdrawal from DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporizhia, within 30 days; international recognition of Crimea, Donbass and Novorossiya as part of Russia; Ukraine neutrality; Ukraine holding elections and then signing a peace treaty – approved by a legally binding UN Security Council resolution (italics mine); and a ban on the receipt and deployment of nuclear weapons. None of that, of course, will ever be accepted by the terror-infused set up in Kiev, the neo-nazi outfits that control it, and assorted, fragmented collective West warmongering backers. So the SMO will go on. Possibly all the way to 2026. Along with extra versions of the Istanbul kabuki: the next one should be held by late June. The current kabuki, incidentally, composes the Last Chance Saloon for Kiev to retain some measure of – fractious – “sovereignty”. As Foreign Minister Lavrov has been reiterating, everything will be really decided in the battlefield. How to destroy the New START Treaty Now to the attack on a branch of Russia’s strategic triad – which mired Western propaganda media in layers and layers of stratospheric hysteria. The point has been made over and over again on why Russia left its strategic bombers unprotected in the tarmac. Because that’s a New START Treaty requirement – signed in 2010 and extended until February next year (when it may go six feet under, considering what just happened). The New START Treaty stipulates that strategic bombers should be visible to “national technical means (NTM) of verification, such as satellite imagery, to allow monitoring by the other party.” So their status – nuclear-armed or converted to conventional use – should be always verifiable. No chance of a “surprise” first strike. This operation single-handedly blew up what was, up to now, a decent Cold War relic preventing the start of WWIII via a simple mechanism. The recklesness involved is off the charts. So there’s no surprise that the highest echelons of power in Russia – from the Kremlin to the security apparatus – are feverishly working to ascertain whether Trump was in the loop or not. And if he was not, who gave the final green light? No wonder the highest echelon, so far, is mum. A security source told me that it was US Secretary of State Marco Rubio that called Lavrov – and not the other way around, to offer condolences for the bridge-on-train terror attack in Bryansk. No word whatsoever about the strategic bombers. In parallel, the former platoon commander in Iraq then Fox News talking head turned head of the Pentagon followed the drone attacks on the Russian bases in real-time. On the efficacy of such attacks – beyond the gleefully spun to death fog of war. Several conflicting estimates point to possibly three Tu-95MS strategic bombers – known as “The Bears” – hit at the Belaya base in Irkutsk, plus one of them partially damaged, and three other T-22M3s hit, with two of them irreparably. Of the three Tu-95MS, fires seem to have been localized, so they may be repaired. At the Olenya base in Murmansk, other four Tu-95MS may have been hit, plus one An-12. As it stands, Russia had 58 Tu-95MS up to this weekend. Even if five of them have been lost for good, that’s less than 10% of their fleet. And that does not count 19 Tu-160 and 55 Tu-22M3M. Of the five bases that were supposed to be attacked, success happened in only two. These losses, as painful as they may be, simply will not affect further strikes by Russian aero-spatial forces. Example: the standard weapon carried by a T-95MSM is the X-101 cruise missile. A maximum of 8 for each mission. In recent strikes, not more than 40 missiles have been launched simultaneously. That implies only 6 Tu-95s in action. So Russia in fact only needs 6 Tu-95MSM ready to fly to conduct strikes as intense as in the previous days and weeks. Tu-160s, moreover, are not even being used for the latest strikes. Evaluating Maximum Strategy At the time of writing, Russia’s inevitably devastating response has still not been green-lighted. This is as serious as it gets. Even if it’s true that POTUS was not informed – and that’s what the Kremlin and the security services want to be absolutely sure of before unleashing Hell from Above on Kiev – still the contours will be clear of a NATO op – US/UK – directly conducted by the CIA/MI6 intel combo, with Trump being offered plausible deniability and Ukraine breaking the START protocol big time. Were Trump to have authorized these strikes, this would constitute no less than a declaration of war by the United States on Russia. So the most probable scenario remains Trump blindsided by the neo-cons embedded in privileged silos scattered across the Beltway. As much as the attack on the Voronezh-M early warning radar system last May, an attack on Russia’s strategic bombers fits the scenario of increasingly prodding the Russian system to enable disabling it ahead of a nuclear first strike. Aspiring Dr. Strangeloves do entertain this scenario in their wildest dreams for decades. As sources carefully confirmed, the prevailing interpretation among the high echelons of power in Russia is that of a P.R. operation forcing a harsh – possibly nuclear – Russian response, coupled with Moscow’s withdrawal from the Istanbul kabuki. So far, the Russian reaction is quite methodical: total silence, a wide-ranging investigation, plus going through the motions in Istanbul. Yet there’s no question the – inevitable – response will require Maximum Strategy. If the response is in tune with Russia’s own updated nuclear doctrine, Moscow risks losing the Global South’s nearly unanimous support. If the response is lukewarm, domestic blowback will be massive. There’s a near universal consensus on “Release the Oreshniks”. Russian public opinion is becoming seriously fed up with being the target of serial terror attacks. The hour of fateful decision is getting late. Which bring us to the ultimate dilemma. Russian power is mulling how to defeat the collective warmongering West without launching WWIII. Inspired by China, a solution may be found via an alliance of remixed Sun Tzu coupled with Lao Tzu. There’s got to be a way – or layered ways – to destroy a strategy-deprived nihilistic enemy’s ability and will to wage endless war.
No and whether Trump is in charge is not in question. The problem is NATO, CIA and MOS control Ukraine as they have since they used a coup to take over there in 2014. The Euro-drips need to be worried about who is in charge in their own backyards. If not for Trump and his leadership in the US Putin would have already gone scorched earth on Ukraine, Germany, France and probably England. And there's not a damn thing those weak shits could do about it except learn to speak Russian and to use rubles to buy bread.
Pompeo and Graham are deep state goons. The fact that Pompeo was there and then US/UK intel was shared with the Nazi regime, which gave specific intel for the attacks to take place on long range nuclear bombers, tells it all.
Pompeo should be held in Gitmo and Graham should be tried for treason.
Just to clarify some details: there seems to be some confusion about Pompeo's travel and the recent Lindsay Graham trip to Ukraine, which happened just prior to the Ukraine attack on the Russian nuke planes.
Pompeo reportedly visited Ukraine in April 4, 2025 with some guy galled Edward Graham, connected to some Christian relief organization.
He also reportedly went to the Black Sea Security Forum in Odessa, south Ukraine, May 30 - June 1, 2025.
So it looks that, while he was there at the same time as Lindsey Graham (May 30), he was not there WITH Lindsey Graham.
A small point, but OP here says that Pompeo was in Kiev WITH Lindsey Graham just prior to the attacks, which is factually incorrect.
Also, the Mod Flair has been put up as "anon theory" but this post is in fact a copy/pasta from Pepe Escobar, a "Brazilian journalist and geopolitical analyst".
I don't think we could call him 'anon', even though the 'Pepe' thing is kinda nice.
I think Graham would enjoy being the wife in prison. The alphas could unload their ordinance all day long and he'd take it like a champ.
An operation of that magnitude and detail requires support from US assets. Intelligence & technical.
At the very least, Gabbard et al should be throwing people in jail (or worse) for attempting to start a nuclear war. That is, of course, assuming that Gabbard etc were unaware of this. Which is far fetched, but I will give them the benefit of the doubt.
The seriousness of what happened cannot be understated. Let's see if ANYONE on the US side is held responsible.
And no, "we had no idea" is not a good answer.
I wonder if it was faked like the fake Airplane taking off from the Afghanistan withdrawal.
There will be wars, and rumors of wars. That is certainly possible.
Here's a fun one, what if the the whole attack was a sting operation and the conspirators are being feed Intel, like the public, that the mission was a success even though it never actual happened.
Wouldn't that be fun?
I agree. I respectfully have to say to the OP I could not read that wall of text. A few paragraph breaks would have made it so much easier.
However my false flag detector is flashing red for this attack. Actually pulling it off would be a miracle, parking the truck just so and launching everythig remotely. In a highly secure area around an air base. Not saying literally impossible but unrealistically difficult.
What if the Russians blew up a few of their own obsolete/unserviceable planes. They get to accuse Ukraine of not being serious about the peace talks also they now have an excuse to back out of the START treaty which requires that aircraft are parked out in the open so they can be verified by satellites and thus the planes are vulnerable.
*overstated
Wasn't that exactly why Q and Trump and the White Hats worked so hard to get control of the government? To stop all that shit? What happened to all that "peace between Russia/Ukraine on day 1. All it takes is a phone call." talk? (I'm paraphrasing here, and pointing out it's paraphrasing because if I don't, some mental midget will come here demanding I show them where Trump said exactly those words in that order. 🙄. It's like they've never even heard of paraphrasing before.)
But anyway, what happened there?
100% this
Let's think big strategy. Putin and Trump allowed this to help destroy NATO. Russia can now go kick some ass while Trump shrugs. NATO folds, and takes down some evil planners with them.
Just illustrating...
u/#wideputin
u/#trumpnato
There really are three options, one of which is terrible, the other bad, and the third one is...5d chess or whatever.
He knew and/or approved. This is the terrible option, because he knew and/or approved a direct attack on the nuclear deterrent of THE nuclear superpower. That's just insane.
He didn't know. This is the bad option, because it means he's not in control of his administration or the IC. How can the president of the US NOT KNOW that the country HE has also been supporting with weapons AND INTELLIGENCE (including satellite info---very important) would do this? That means he's incompetent, or intentionally kept in the dark. All bad options.
The airplanes that were hit (5 confirmed out of action, a few more damaged) were actual mothballed versions (Russians have about 160 of those Tu-95s in mothball) and this was coordinated with Putin to usher in some sort of precipice. This is the far fetched 5d option but also the one that paints Trump in the best light.
if we only stick to options 1 and 2, none of them are good for Trump. He needs to take control of his administration and rogue elements of the IC/MIC/whatever other shitheads want to bring nuclear war BEFORE the Russians, that have shown enormous patience, decide to actually do what their nuclear doctrine requires them to do (and what WE would do if this had happened TO US).
What the heck is Pompeo let alone Graham doing in Ukraine? Can you remember when Pelosi decided to jet off overseas and POTUS (Trump) denied it? It was said at the time that POTUS needs to sign off on these jaunts overseas due to the jet fuel accountability for the US planes. Unless they flew private and this to me opens up a whole lot of more can of worms.
Trump hatred is off-topic on GAW.
And if you have a direct connection to a high level intel source as you claim, odds are that you're engaged in a psyop.
This is one of the reasons why I don’t make a lot of comments here, because if somebody disagrees, there is a possibility that you’ll be treated disrespectfully. It’s OK for people to have different thoughts in their mind, and to express them. It’s OK for people to ask questions, and get answers to maybe clear their mind. I don’t see any direct. I hate Trump comments from Matilda. You can be in a disagreement with somebody without being rude.
Q started on 8chan, progressed to 4chan, and the bulk of us had to endure years of Voat. Needless to say you didn't get to participate if you're thin skinned. No veteran of Q has such delicate sensibilities that they consider my comment rude.
The OP doesn't mind being rude to Trump though, does she? She essentially called Trump a traitor. Them's fighting words.
The notion that she gets to insult Trump but nobody gets to question her motives is ludicrous. Not to mention she says she's got high level intel officers whispering in her ear. What a LARP.
Must support Q here.
For the record, I'm pretty confident that Matilda is a very strong Trump supporter. She just copy/pasted an article by an author who may not share her views on that point.
The Post has been poorly formatted, and mislabeled by a mod as "anon theory".
It is in fact a copy/pasta of an article by a well-known Brazilian journalist whose name, incredibly, is 'Pepe' Escobar. (His real name).
OP should have pasted the source at the top, or made it clear this was a copy/pasta. The mod who added the flair should have checked the content first before labeling it as 'anon theory', adding to the confusion that this post is somehow OP (u/matildaJ)'s own ideas and writing.
u/propertyofuniverse u/bubble_bursts
Yes, I thought it was MatildaJ's work at first.
But she has since added the source link at the bottom.
Maybe u/matildaJ you can edit it to move the source link to the top, mention Escobar and put some double line breaks in?
All in all, I'm really pleased you posted it. It's got the anons really discussing the subject of the plan.
Yes, a great find and a good posting.
Pompeo was there at a conference: "the Black Sea Security Forum"
https://odesaforum.org/
Graham was directly meeting with Zelenski, tho.
You’ve been very polite and considerate, considering magavoices has been really cranky. Carry on with your thought process, there’s nothing wrong with asking questions.
😜. We must all ask questions - and the great thing about this board is we are given that privilege of having our voices heard even when we don’t like what we hear.
You may just want to tweek that formatting, Matty. Cos its almost impossible to read. Just slip in some paragraph marks so that there are 2 for each paragraph, and it should help.
Smacks of [NO NAME] hob nobbing with the enemy in Syria
Hey ...who knows, maybe Blackwater was shadowing these two phags just like [NO NAME]
Options are choices. These are possibilities. Items 1 and 3 are out of the question. Item 2 is the likely answer, but there are some unwarranted assumptions, namely that US intel was needed for the act, when UK intel was certainly available and satellite reconnaissance was provided by Finnish (EU) satellites. Intel on strategic bases is not the same as intel on theater targets. I have read recently that Finland is boosting its military preparedness posture. In possible anticipation of backlash? If so, that means this scheme has been in the works for some time. (Also implied by the modus operandi of infiltrated sabotage.)
If I were Trump, I would make a very public point that "This did not come from me," and since it had to have come from other NATO members..."I am hereby voiding our membership in NATO, to be clean of any of this. Anybody who did this is trying to start World War III, which violates the original purpose of NATO."
This would remover the U.S. from the table and cancel any mutual defense treaty entanglement. The EU members would be sitting around, saying "Oops," as Trump would have removed the American umbrella and given Putin the green light to impose condign punishment.
And then subject Graham and Pompeo to a scrutiny that would make a proctoscopic examination preferable. (Since they were both former members of the armed forces, could Trump have them reinstated to service, subject to the UCMJ?)
Can you remember at a press stop where the retaliation against Ukraine has started and POTUS was angry at what Putin did? He then proceeded to lambast Putin but a journo said that there was an attempt on Putin’s life and that his helicopter had been fired upon and Trump went quiet. He then said, I didn’t know that!! Very telling.
Yes and I didn't believe that for a second. This is why I added option 3. I am unwilling to only accept options 1 and 2 because they're both bad for Trump, and for us.
There might be a bigger/more covert game being played here, between Trump & Putin. Trump definitely has the hardest fight, because he's fighting against his own people, like Graham. Well, 'his own people' nominally because I don't think Trump is a satanist, but Graham definitely is.
I’m scared for America. The neocons worldwide want Russia. I’ve seen the maps of it being divided up among EU, UK, and the US UK is right up there with NATO and America. They want this war to continue, not end. This has been going on since the Minsk Accords way back in 2014/2015. 14,000 Russian speaking civilians have been murdered at the hands of EU/UK/US weapons. When Russia entered Ukraine in 2022, it was to deNAZIFY and deMILITARISE Ukraine. Putin will not back down. Imagine if America had say Mexico send missiles into Texas or other states, killing thousands of civilians. Just remember this happened after the Soviet Union was dissolved and the new Russia was recovering after the country had been racked with political unrest. Putin has cleared the oligarchs of their left -over soviet regime etc. Lots of rebuilding, infrastructure etc. then the Minsk Accords happened. I believe this is when the neocons made their move in Ukraine with drug cartels, human trafficking, and don’t forget Bidens threats and his son being installed on the Burisma Board. Putin could see the weapons buildup after Minsk and sort to protect the Russian people caught behind Ukraine boundaries. Putin will not allow what happened in the Minsk Accords to happen again.
I’m guessing that you’re not a fan of Q and the plan.
I’ve followed Q since the very beginning. I’m behind Trump 100%. But it worries me that myself and many, many Patriots are watching him being erased as many government departments are still full of neocons that are absolutely hell bent on WW3. I’ll ask again. Why was Mike Pompeo and Lindsey Graham in Kiev meeting with “unelected leaders” 2 odd days ago when Ukraine fired deep into Russia’s borders. We need to ask these hard questions because the last thing is that the world be caught off guard. And the Q contribution fill be naught.
You questioned Trump's position in your opening post. You're essentially biting the hand that is feeding you.
Make it make sense ... you're on a Q board where Trump is Q+, meanwhile you're casting doubt on Trump's position in regards to Russia.
Can we all at least come to an agreement that if Q isn't real, and Trump's participation in the Q plan isn't real, that no amount of whining about it on a Q forum is going to change anything?
And NATO has been meddling in Ukraine long before 2014. Back when he was still a young senator, Obama visited East Ukraine in order to destroy armaments, only to later arm West Ukraine. The US has been trying to rip Ukraine out of Russia's sphere of influence since the fall of the Soviet Union.
Yet you want to cast shade on Trump, "It’s patently unclear whether Trump is really in charge – or not." Thank God Trump is doing what he's doing without expecting an ounce of faith or loyalty from you for the bajillion things we know he's done for this country.
I guess its best you put that faith blindly into muh high level intel source who told you directly that muh US is evil. Certainly muh high level intel source is telling you out of the benevolence and goodness in their heart -- to divulge secrets beyond everyone's paygrade whom the data would be revealed to. Such a trustworthy messenger.
This
It’s almost like Trump went on a diatribe about Putin just so the “news” would bring up the attempt on Putin’s life as a way of getting a dig in on Trump, “cuz he didn’t know”, when in reality all that happened was msm ended up pointing out that an attempt was made on Putin’s life and Trump didn’t have to point it out to them. 5D chess.
IMO There is a reasonable possibility that there is a precipice event which has been agreed between the white hats which has been coordinated at the top levels.
What do you think?
I posted a reply of Dmitry Medvedev earlier. He was the President of Russia sometime after the fall of the Soviet Union. He is giving hints of what is to come.
💥When Dmitry Medvedev stops joking and starts speaking in bone-cold certainty, it’s time to read the runes and brace for fire. The usually bombastic former president, known for his dark humor and trolling of Western leaders, has gone stoic. And that’s far more terrifying.
In a terse statement following a week of Ukrainian terrorism and sabotage deep inside Russia: railway bombings, drone attacks on strategic military airfields from Murmansk to the Far East, Medvedev didn’t scream. He whispered. Russia, he said, will “inevitably” retaliate. No timelines. No specifics. Just inevitability.
And that calm, that eerie quiet, is the sound before the orshenik storm. It’s the calculated silence of a superpower tired of games, but still diplomatic enough to sit at the table in Istanbul with the same people orchestrating terror campaigns against its infrastructure and civilians. Only a civilization with depth, resolve, and historical memory does this. Moscow came to negotiate peace, while its adversaries sent drones.
Medvedev’s words weren’t fiery; they were surgical: “Everything that needs to be blown up will be, and those who need to be eliminated will be.” Not rhetoric. Not bravado. That is a mission briefing from the Security Council’s war room. He speaks now not as a former president, but as the voice of a state that has turned the page on Western appeasement, and is already writing the next chapter, with steel, not sentiment.
And still, Russia offered prisoner swaps, body exchanges, even temporary ceasefires to recover the dead from the battlefield. Moscow returned the remains of 6,000 Ukrainian soldiers, and said it would accept the return of its own. But what was Kiev’s answer? Zelensky, the failed comedian turned tragic puppet, called Russian negotiators “idiots.” The man who greenlit drone strikes on civilian railways, who greenlit targeting Murmansk and Ryazan, now mocks a ceasefire designed to retrieve the dead?
The Kremlin, ever tactful, called his words “unfortunate.” But the real message came not from Peskov, but from Medvedev and from the silence behind the eyes of Vladimir Putin. This is not 2022. Russia is no longer trying to be understood. It is preparing to be obeyed.
And let’s not pretend this is diplomacy in good faith. Kiev only crawled back to the table because Donald Trump applied pressure. Trump, sick of the game, made it clear: get serious or the U.S. walks. The fact that Zelensky still chooses escalation amid this ultimatum shows either madness or martyrdom and Russia, being patient, seems willing to let him choose.
But don’t mistake patience for passivity. The cauldron is heating. The front is moving. And when Medvedev tells the Russian people that retaliation is “inevitable,” it’s not bluster, it’s the long, deep breath before the world watches something snap.
Zelensky should be less concerned with hurling insults and more concerned with evacuating his command bunker. The bear is awake. The bear is calculating. And the bear is done talking.
@DDGeopolitics @TheIslanderNews
Excellent observations on Medvedev
I think you are dreaming, and you need to wake up. This event is categorically beyond the scale of the existing war. It is infiltration of strategic sabotage, which requires a LOT of time, planning, preparation, and assistance. It involves civilian targets. My guess is MI6, who are not White Hats by any dose of recreational chemicals.
This is real life and what happens next will be a measure of who Trump is and who Putin is.
Trump has entered the "arena" spoken of by Teddy Roosevelt. A strong play is called for. He should arrest Graham and Blumenthal and charge them with sedition. And investigate and add any others involved. He should also call in the CIA director and order a stand down on the directive to subvert the Russian government (that has obviously been in effect for years).
Months in the planning.
Agreed.
Anybody got a guess for a date? 🤣
Edit:
I think MAYBE this whole week will be interesting
I was quite content to not be.
What a human tragedy.
I know you can guess a date fren!
See you tomorrow.
Pompeo is an evil man. I don't like him involved at all
He’s had his security pulled so why the heck is he in Ukraine meeting with the green goblin??
Just to reiterate, you completely misread the facts, Mat.
Pompeo was in Odesa at a conference. He was NOT in Kiev meeting Zelenski.
Trump not being in charge is the antithesis of Q.
Unless you're talking about not being in charge of MI6. Because of course he's not in charge of MI6. Because the last I checked, he's not the president of the UK. You can confirm this without actually needing a "top intel source", just ask any random person on the street if Trump is in charge of MI6.
And, a top intel source told who? The OP? Or is this a copy/pasta from somewhere else? Who is this intel source, why is their identity secret if the OP personally talked to them?
It all sounds like bullshit to me. I have 8+ years of meticulously researching Trump to know he is, in fact, in charge (of the things he's supposed to be in charge of), if you or your intel sources say otherwise ... who are you again?
Will he arrest and charge the seditionists ?
u/#q571
Ball is in your court. This is where you call Q a liar and have your agenda exposed.
Well, I guess the answer to my question is yes 👍
It looked to me that the planes were not operational.
That's a good point and something I thought about early on. They were laid out in the open and obviously with very little if any security/protection. I'm thinking they may have been decoys for bait.
100%
Movie.
Example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiRJRjsLx-M
Anyone honestly think that's a real aircraft?
I hate how people people even here need to be reminded that it is 100% movie. This is a movie. Theres no easier way to say it. It is simple. It sounds reductive, but it is 5d chess.
It is a real aircraft. C-17. I've seen them up close. All rigid surfaces. Plenty of hard hull penetrations. You can even see through the cockpit windows. Pretty good bias confirmation that you can see a real aircraft and believe it is a "fake" aircraft.
https://x.com/BrainStorm_Joe/status/1744354625342279922
https://x.com/ADeeHD/status/1744358983933006187/photo/3
2nd link. Some guy just sitting on a plane taking off looking at his phone?
The plane is real. The windows are fine (not always glossy, but hard and transparent). Who says it is taking off? It looks like taxiing. If they are under combat conditions and have a deadline, they may not pause for people to disperse. And if it is taxiing, that explains the jubilant mood of the gaggle and why someone might think it is okay (for a photo op) to sit somewhere and make a call.
Yes. Tires or something similar were on the wings. Not normal. I noticed some of the media tried to edit out or pixelate what was on the wings.
They were operational strategic bombers parked in the open per Treaty requirements to permit their status to be confirmed by "national technical means" (i.e., photo-reconnaissance satellites).
I know about the treaty requirements but without any cap or security and protection is totally illogical. Those drones shouldn't have been able to get within 10 miles of the base without being detected and without defensive action being taken.
I believe their launch points were much closer than 10 miles. If you shoot within a defender's reach, he can't get you.
Also, of the 5 bases attacked, 2 of them neutralized the drones and no damage ensued.
Thank you. Someone is listening and researching the Treaty.
Someone has already posted the exact treaty language specifying open parking or controlled hangar available for inspectors to enter.
All I can say is nothing is as it seems.
The Sun, the Moon, the stars, the birds, the bees...
Wall of text!
I know. People need to relearn the purpose and practice of paragraphs. Too much obsession with "what I want to say," and not enough consideration of "what I want them to understand."
Pepe Escobar
Strategic Culture Foundation
https://archive.ph/1Fpam
...give Pepe his due...
Thank you! I think he’s back in Russia.
" Thank you! I think he’s back in Russia. "
...doggy winks...
...where we howl 1, we howl all...
You duplicated a few points OP. Just an FYI.
Thanks for letting me know.
According to defiantamerica, Graham's hotel bills were around $800,000 in total.
Those little Ukrainian boys are inflationary.
What an absolute tour de force of a post.
Thank you ever so much for the effort you put in here to define and clarify the situation.
Your analysis makes sense to me, and I'm just waiting for the Russian response.
Sigh. This was a COPY/PASTA, Props. Copy, you know? Pasta, thereafter.
OP posted the content written by Pepe Escobar.
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/06/03/waiting-for-oreshniks-while-istanbul-kabuki-proceeds-not-negatively/
According to Grok:
Pepe Escobar (born 1954) is a Brazilian journalist and geopolitical analyst known for his extensive work as a foreign correspondent since 1985. He is the roving correspondent for Asia Times (Hong Kong/Thailand-based), where he writes the column "The Roving Eye," focusing on geopolitical issues, particularly in Eurasia, the Middle East, and Asia. He is also a columnist for The Cradle, an editor-at-large at Asia Times, and an analyst for outlets like The Real News Network, RT, TomDispatch, and Sputnik. Escobar has lived in cities such as London, Paris, Milan, Los Angeles, Washington, Bangkok, and Hong Kong, reflecting his global perspective.
I saw your other comment and have asked the OP to edit the post a little to make the source more apparent.
All this tells us is that part of the US military intelligence apparatus reports to the Uk
I really do hope Trump is not in bed with the deep staters. I hope Trump comes down hard on the warmongers. All of them not just Graham and Pompeo.
Ive been tangling with 8 years of this. Im so tired.
I think the response will be to take out the Ukrainian leadership or at least attempt to.
Why? Because their leadership has spent years accumulating private wealth from this war. So if they become the targets self preservation kicks in as they want to enjoy their spoils. If successful, no one really cares, yeah the media will carry on but hey its war. the enemies leadership is always a prime target.
As part of this it should be made clear to Ukraines backers that if they come to Ukraine and meet with Govt officials they are fair game, aka collateral damage. And if Zelensky and co are trying to fly out for meetings abroad, said planes etc are targets.
Ukraine will roll over fast when those reaping the benefits face death.
I too am puzzled why Putin hasn't taken Zelensky out.
Useful idiot but all bets are off now. They will seek to destabilize Ukraine in every possible way and if the West complains Putin can just point out Ukraine tried to take him out recently.
Thanks Matilda
For those who find the wall of text a little hard to read...
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/06/03/waiting-for-oreshniks-while-istanbul-kabuki-proceeds-not-negatively/
This was the mood in informed Moscow – only a few hours before the renewed Istanbul kabuki on Russia-Ukraine “negotiations”. Three key points.
The attack on Russian strategic bombers – part of the nuclear triad – was a US-UK joint operation. Especially MI6. The overall tech investment and strategy was provided by this intel combo.
It’s patently unclear whether Trump is really in charge – or not. This was confirmed to me at night by a top intel source; he added that the Kremlin and the security services were actively investigating all possibilities, especially who issued the final green light.
Near universal popular consensus: Release the Oreshniks. Plus waves of ballistic missiles.
Predictably, the Instabul kabuki came and went like a tawdry spectacle, complete with the Ukrainian delegation in military fatigues and Defense Minister Umarov incapable of speaking even mediocre English at a messy press conference after the brief 1h15 meeting. The Turkish Foreign Ministry epically described the kabuki as concluding “not negatively”.
Nothing strategic or politically substantial was discussed: only prisoner exchanges. The mood in Moscow, additionally, was that top Russian negotiator Medinsky should have presented an ultimatum, not a memorandum. It was, predictably, interpreted as an ultimatum by the Beggar of Banderastan; but what Medinsky actually handed out to the Ukrainians was a de facto road map memorandum, in 3 sections, with 2 options for the conditions for a ceasefire, and 31 points, a great deal of them expressed in detail by Moscow for months.
Examples: first option for a ceasefire should be a complete UAF withdrawal from DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporizhia, within 30 days; international recognition of Crimea, Donbass and Novorossiya as part of Russia; Ukraine neutrality; Ukraine holding elections and then signing a peace treaty – approved by a legally binding UN Security Council resolution (italics mine); and a ban on the receipt and deployment of nuclear weapons.
None of that, of course, will ever be accepted by the terror-infused set up in Kiev, the neo-nazi outfits that control it, and assorted, fragmented collective West warmongering backers. So the SMO will go on. Possibly all the way to 2026. Along with extra versions of the Istanbul kabuki: the next one should be held by late June.
The current kabuki, incidentally, composes the Last Chance Saloon for Kiev to retain some measure of – fractious – “sovereignty”. As Foreign Minister Lavrov has been reiterating, everything will be really decided in the battlefield.
How to destroy the New START Treaty
Now to the attack on a branch of Russia’s strategic triad – which mired Western propaganda media in layers and layers of stratospheric hysteria.
The point has been made over and over again on why Russia left its strategic bombers unprotected in the tarmac. Because that’s a New START Treaty requirement – signed in 2010 and extended until February next year (when it may go six feet under, considering what just happened).
The New START Treaty stipulates that strategic bombers should be visible to “national technical means (NTM) of verification, such as satellite imagery, to allow monitoring by the other party.” So their status – nuclear-armed or converted to conventional use – should be always verifiable. No chance of a “surprise” first strike.
This operation single-handedly blew up what was, up to now, a decent Cold War relic preventing the start of WWIII via a simple mechanism. The recklessness involved is off the charts. So there’s no surprise that the highest echelons of power in Russia – from the Kremlin to the security apparatus – are feverishly working to ascertain whether Trump was in the loop or not. And if he was not, who gave the final green light?
No wonder the highest echelon, so far, is mum.
A security source told me that it was US Secretary of State Marco Rubio that called Lavrov – and not the other way around, to offer condolences for the bridge-on-train terror attack in Bryansk. No word whatsoever about the strategic bombers. In parallel, the former platoon commander in Iraq then Fox News talking head turned head of the Pentagon followed the drone attacks on the Russian bases in real-time.
On the efficacy of such attacks – beyond the gleefully spun to death fog of war. Several conflicting estimates point to possibly three Tu-95MS strategic bombers – known as “The Bears” – hit at the Belaya base in Irkutsk, plus one of them partially damaged, and three other T-22M3s hit, with two of them irreparably. Of the three Tu-95MS, fires seem to have been localized, so they may be repaired.
At the Olenya base in Murmansk, other four Tu-95MS may have been hit, plus one An-12.
As it stands, Russia had 58 Tu-95MS up to this weekend. Even if five of them have been lost for good, that’s less than 10% of their fleet. And that does not count 19 Tu-160 and 55 Tu-22M3M. Of the five bases that were supposed to be attacked, success happened in only two.
These losses, as painful as they may be, simply will not affect further strikes by Russian aero-spatial forces.
Example: the standard weapon carried by a T-95MSM is the X-101 cruise missile. A maximum of 8 for each mission. In recent strikes, not more than 40 missiles have been launched simultaneously. That implies only 6 Tu-95s in action. So Russia in fact only needs 6 Tu-95MSM ready to fly to conduct strikes as intense as in the previous days and weeks. Tu-160s, moreover, are not even being used for the latest strikes.
Evaluating Maximum Strategy
At the time of writing, Russia’s inevitably devastating response has still not been green-lighted. This is as serious as it gets. Even if it’s true that POTUS was not informed – and that’s what the Kremlin and the security services want to be absolutely sure of before unleashing Hell from Above on Kiev – still the contours will be clear of a NATO op – US/UK – directly conducted by the CIA/MI6 intel combo, with Trump being offered plausible deniability and Ukraine breaking the START protocol big time.
Were Trump to have authorized these strikes, this would constitute no less than a declaration of war by the United States on Russia. So the most probable scenario remains Trump blindsided by the neo-cons embedded in privileged silos scattered across the Beltway.
As much as the attack on the Voronezh-M early warning radar system last May, an attack on Russia’s strategic bombers fits the scenario of increasingly prodding the Russian system to enable disabling it ahead of a nuclear first strike. Aspiring Dr. Strangeloves do entertain this scenario in their wildest dreams for decades.
As sources carefully confirmed, the prevailing interpretation among the high echelons of power in Russia is that of a P.R. operation forcing a harsh – possibly nuclear – Russian response, coupled with Moscow’s withdrawal from the Istanbul kabuki.
So far, the Russian reaction is quite methodical: total silence, a wide-ranging investigation, plus going through the motions in Istanbul.
Yet there’s no question the – inevitable – response will require Maximum Strategy. If the response is in tune with Russia’s own updated nuclear doctrine, Moscow risks losing the Global South’s nearly unanimous support.
If the response is lukewarm, domestic blowback will be massive. There’s a near universal consensus on “Release the Oreshniks”. Russian public opinion is becoming seriously fed up with being the target of serial terror attacks. The hour of fateful decision is getting late.
Which bring us to the ultimate dilemma. Russian power is mulling how to defeat the collective warmongering West without launching WWIII. Inspired by China, a solution may be found via an alliance of remixed Sun Tzu coupled with Lao Tzu. There’s got to be a way – or layered ways – to destroy a strategy-deprived nihilistic enemy’s ability and will to wage endless war.
Why would Trump approve of an attack on Russia?
The Sum of all Fears?
This piece is solid MatildaJ.
"Imagine what we'll know tomorrow..."
https://youtu.be/1fNZCQVKsOI?si=ZHKkE_BygZyM0Rpn
How is it possible the Russian air defenses fended off a drone swarm from attacking President Putin’s helicopter convoy, but couldn’t defend their interior air bases? There are just too many things about this war that don’t add up. And, it continues to be the only war in decades that has no embedded reporting.
I may have this slightly off, but I think I read that 5 airbases were attacked, but the drones were dispelled at 2 of them. The launch positions were extremely close to the targeted bases, so there was the element of surprise in its favor.
The report is a man - has since been captured - created a trucking company. He travelled in and out of Russia/Ukraine for months. He built up a paper trail and border crossings didn’t pick up his travels. He got close to the airbases mentioned but what was not discovered was that the trucks had a compartment at the top which lifted up with the drones being released enmass and with coordinates given by Mi6 and CIA targeted the airfields. It was called operation spiderweb. After the drones were launched, the truck was set alight. One driver of 1 truck was caught by civilians and strangled. His body was shown on Telegram with those plastic zip ties around his neck. Not sure if civilians killed him or police etc.
These trucks pulled up 500yds from the airbases 2500 klms inside Russia. It was probably all over before the Russians realised what had happened. The videos taken by civilians show they were in a town. One truck was on fire - the other intact + one terrorist strangled on the ground.
Thanks for the information, I’ve been so busy lately I haven’t been able to keep up. Knowing this reinforces my belief that forces inside of Russia are trying to undermine President Putin.
There is no way a badly depleted Ukrainian military has pulled off this surprise attack, attacking Putin’s helicopter, and bombing the bridge into Crimea without help from inside Russia. These events are giving me a Sum of All Fears vibe.
The satellites belong to the UK NATO and US have been feeding the locations to Ukraine. When the drones are examined, Russia will determine what country supplied them. Let me repost what Dmitry Medvedev statement he released earlier says
Calm Before Inevitable Storm: Calm Words, Scary Kinetic Consequences
When Dmitry Medvedev stops joking and starts speaking in bone-cold certainty, it’s time to read the runes and brace for fire. The usually bombastic former president, known for his dark humor and trolling of Western leaders, has gone stoic. And that’s far more terrifying.
In a terse statement following a week of Ukrainian terrorism and sabotage deep inside Russia: railway bombings, drone attacks on strategic military airfields from Murmansk to the Far East, Medvedev didn’t scream. He whispered. Russia, he said, will “inevitably” retaliate. No timelines. No specifics. Just inevitability.
And that calm, that eerie quiet, is the sound before the orshenik storm. It’s the calculated silence of a superpower tired of games, but still diplomatic enough to sit at the table in Istanbul with the same people orchestrating terror campaigns against its infrastructure and civilians. Only a civilization with depth, resolve, and historical memory does this. Moscow came to negotiate peace, while its adversaries sent drones.
Medvedev’s words weren’t fiery; they were surgical: “Everything that needs to be blown up will be, and those who need to be eliminated will be.” Not rhetoric. Not bravado. That is a mission briefing from the Security Council’s war room. He speaks now not as a former president, but as the voice of a state that has turned the page on Western appeasement, and is already writing the next chapter, with steel, not sentiment.
And still, Russia offered prisoner swaps, body exchanges, even temporary ceasefires to recover the dead from the battlefield. Moscow returned the remains of 6,000 Ukrainian soldiers, and said it would accept the return of its own. But what was Kiev’s answer? Zelensky, the failed comedian turned tragic puppet, called Russian negotiators “idiots.” The man who greenlit drone strikes on civilian railways, who greenlit targeting Murmansk and Ryazan, now mocks a ceasefire designed to retrieve the dead?
The Kremlin, ever tactful, called his words “unfortunate.” But the real message came not from Peskov, but from Medvedev and from the silence behind the eyes of Vladimir Putin. This is not 2022. Russia is no longer trying to be understood. It is preparing to be obeyed.
And let’s not pretend this is diplomacy in good faith. Kiev only crawled back to the table because Donald Trump applied pressure. Trump, sick of the game, made it clear: get serious or the U.S. walks. The fact that Zelensky still chooses escalation amid this ultimatum shows either madness or martyrdom and Russia, being patient, seems willing to let him choose.
But don’t mistake patience for passivity. The cauldron is heating. The front is moving. And when Medvedev tells the Russian people that retaliation is “inevitable,” it’s not bluster, it’s the long, deep breath before the world watches something snap.
Zelensky should be less concerned with hurling insults and more concerned with evacuating his command bunker. The bear is awake. The bear is calculating. And the bear is done talking.
🎙Subscribe DDGeopolitics
No way
Trump had already put Z and Ukraine in check in the oval office. Was this his way of putting P and Russia in check?
I wouldn’t be telling a nuclear armed superpower what to do.
He's told nuclear powers plenty of things to do. And he absolutely allows Putin to exist and is not afraid of Russia. lol.
Trump did not approve this. Pisses me off that he was not made aware.
Exactly. I hate the thought that he has traitors among the team as well as in the Military and alphabet agencies.
A few days has transpired and PEPE ESCOBAR gives an update of what is now happening with reprisals. Pepe is in Russia atm.
https://www.youtube.com/live/vEXJjM1YAgE?si=KDJJB9RsBsnKGdDY
Question: "What is the specific Date that the Nuclear war starts? If you can’t remember the exact date, could you put the month at least?..."
John Titor, 2/13/2001: "I remember the exact date.
When it comes, it will not be a surprise."
IMO this post is garbage, horsehockey. The American and Russian populations have been brainwashed into thinking we are enemies for decades. Remember observing the traitors; enemy of the people in the United States yelling Russia,Russia,Russia?
Zelenskyy is the puppet of the Satanic temple, Ukraine is “The most corrupt country in the world“ Putin is a white hat who backed Russian currency with gold. He stood up to the matrix and told them to fuck off.
White hats in control. You are watching a movie
Pompey and Graham should not be on this earth as well as the rest of the evil gangs like the Clintons and Oboso, if they were not here, we on earth will have peace prosperity and love. They have destroy all humans and the earth just for simple fact that they want everything for them. Hoping God has mercy on us.
I thought it was Graham and Blumenthal?
From the photos I saw released it was G & B. I don't know how Pompeo was confused with Blumenthal.
Pompeo was there too sneaking around.
🇺🇸🇺🇦 Does anyone find it strange that former CIA Director [under Trump] Mike Pompeo and psychopath chairman Lindsey Graham were both in Ukraine just one day before Ukraine committed terrorist attacks on Russian civilian trains and attacked Russian strategic nuclear bombers?
What a strange coincidence...
🔴 @DDGeopolitics |
Go to their telegram channel. In the search at top, put Pompeo. There’s a video and remember he’s lost a lot of weight. Blue suit.
Yes and at one stage Pompeo joined them.