Czar Trump seizes St Petersburg from the capitulating #RazPutin. The shelling of #Ukraine to cease “inmediatamente”. Upon backstab by either party, the #SBU will take action. Reference: https://open.spotify.com/episode/645taRH4Qab6GIMOE7ZhLK #Telegraph 🇬🇧 #Slava-Ukraini 🇺🇦 #5th-Column 🦅
There are many more signs of the instability of Putin's regime. Check Jason Smart's substack. He's studied Putin for decades, and goes into detail on all the facts indicating a regime in serious decline.
I am aware that there are signs of instability in Putin's regime, however so long as he has an iron grip on the KGB, the Police, the media, the oligarchs he is safe.
The big thing right now in Russia is that he hasn't been seen, he has disappeared for over a week. and the question is why? Health, hospital?
Putin doesn’t have an iron grip on anything. That’s just the image he works on projecting. Since starting the war, about 25% of the oligarchs and about one million men who wanted to avoid the possibility of a draft have left Russia.
The KGB hasn’t been around since probably the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The FSB is the current intelligence service, and it is in a power struggle against the military, which itself Putin doesn’t trust, especially since Prigozhin led his uprising and the military didn’t stop him. Officers in the military are getting shot by their own men or selling off equipment and pocketing the cash. Every individual in every faction is out to get whatever they can for themselves before the whole country falls apart.
The rise in oil prices is actually of less help than it might seem, because Russia is still tied in to a lot of black market contracts and Ukraine is bombing their oil refineries.
Putin started hiding the day after Khamenei was assassinated. He has twelve missile systems guarding his personal country residence, while all of Moscow has only sixty.
The internet is partially blacked out in Moscow and St. Petersburg because Putin is afraid of how discontent the people are growing, and businesses are losing millions every day. Banks are in trouble since people withdrew about 19 billion in savings after the start of the war.
I know most of what you wrote. Disagree about KGB. FSB is the KGB renamed, still the same old outfit, same old procedures, same old paranoia, same old assassination., same Orthodox Priests as agents.
I know Ukraine is blasting away at Russia's infrastructure with Drones, and they have agents,probably Russians inside the country helping.
I know about the blackouts, the banks, the inflation, the discontent. I read medium.com and it is a great source of news about the Ukraine Russian war.
Yet Putin keeps an iron grip on the populace, anyone who even calls it a war is arrested, all communications are monitored. Russia lives in a police state, and always has, only the Russias are accustomed to it and it is normalized.
If you know most of what I've said, then you know that indicates Putin doesn't have an iron grip on anything. That's the kind of Russian propaganda that's had the West tiptoeing fearfully around for decades. Putin is terrified of everything, from missiles to germs to his next in command, his government is falling apart with knives out, and the levels of security he attempts to surround himself with is an indication of the level of his own insecurity. The country is an failing gas station with a whipped, impoverished population 30% of whom have never seen an indoor toilet.
Putin keeps heavy antimissile armaments around his compound, and travels to Moscow less and less. He's very afraid, not just of attacks from outside but from various factions within his regime, as Russia weakens on all fronts. And Trump thinks Putin is strong! :)))
Fascinating! And not just that Putin is "missing" but that living in Russia now involved "no internet". Yikes! And thanks!
"And all of this is happening against the backdrop of something far more visible inside Russia, where mobile internet blackouts have begun sweeping across Moscow, disrupting daily life and leaving residents increasingly cut off. Large parts of the capital have experienced significant outages in recent weeks, with authorities framing the disruptions as necessary for “security,” particularly to counter Ukrainian drone threats, even as many residents openly question whether that explanation tells the full story.
For millions of Muscovites, the impact has been immediate and disruptive, with payment systems failing, businesses losing revenue, and basic communication becoming unreliable, forcing people back to cash and, in some cases, older technologies like landlines, pagers, paper maps, and walkie-talkies. Commuters can’t call taxis, maps won’t load, and workers are crowding into cafés just to find stable Wi-Fi."
Whenever Putin is deposed they need to take care of that slob who’s buddied up with Bannon, Aleksander Dugin. He’s a guiding light to many westerners on the fascist right and must be silenced if we are ever to repair our democracy.
Interesting. Putin is probably wise to consider he might be taken out next. Of course, he could be sick or worse. As for the power disruptions this could be part of their drone defense strategy. As we see in Iran even if something happens to Putin someone will take his place, maybe someone worse.
Someone took Khamenei’s place as a figurehead, but we don’t even know if he’s alive. Larijiana was supposedly the one running things, but now he’s gone too. Most people don’t realize there are several factions held together inside the regime, and he was the last one capable of doing that. All of their top leadership is gone, and that still significantly weakens the regime’s cohesion and oppression capabilities.
I know it’s not particularly popular, but give it time to play out. Beyond all the death and suffering they’re responsible for in the ME, the regime has a lot of Ukrainian blood on its hands too. After losing Assad and Maduro, Putin losing Iran as a partner would be a huge plus for Ukraine and global security.
I agree. Russia really only needs China on its side especially as it looks like Putin has Trump who now has an excuse to lift sanctions
The problem with Iran is one of those factions in Iran will take over and it may well be even more of a hardline extremist faction.
Its also possible different factions begin fighting each other and Iran becomes a dysfunctional basket case with millions of civilian deaths and of angry people seeking revenge and martyrdom, and Irans energy resources offline for long periods, and with one faction in possession of highly enriched uranium bringing on a new age of terror. Perhaps that will be seen as a win to some of the players, but its certainly not going to make Americans at home any safer. With all the sanctions Iran was not much of a threat and was fairly predictable and stable. Not sure the $200 billion initial ask to pay for this War will reap any dividends
Of course the Utopian scenario is a faction which opens its arms to US and forgives what can only be described as a Pearl Harbor like attack on them. No doubt they will need to crush any dissent among their people who are not so forgiving .
Yeah, there’s definitely plenty of risk involved in toppling the regime. Trump being the babbling moron that he is, did a really poor job with the messaging on it. The core objectives of completely eliminating their ability to enrich uranium, work towards building a bomb, and minimizing their ballistic missile and drone production capabilities would still be a strategic win. It’d degrade their ability to arm proxies throughout the region, and remove a major player from the Russia, China, Iran and NK axis that seemed to be building up.
I’d love to see regime change, and for the Iranian people to be free though. They’re generally a great group, and even before the slaughter of civilians only about 20% of them supported the regime. That combined with how unified they were in rising up in January makes me optimistic that the right people would be able to take back control of the country. Unlike Iraq or Afghanistan, they’re not a bunch of different tribes united by religion, and they’re a mostly homogenous Persian culture that were a modern secular society before 1979.
That being said, I realize the difficulty in making that happen when the bad guys have almost all the weapons, and I think it’d be extremely difficult to see regime change with just an air campaign too. Very few people have an appetite for boots on the ground, including me, outside of maybe some very limited special forces operations. It seems like they’ve been hinting at having something else planned, and our intelligence agencies have heavy infiltrated their military and government. The regime has successfully royally pissed off all of their neighbors too, and behind closed doors some of them are pushing for regime change. Time will tell, but I’m hoping for the best for the Iranian people though.
Israel has shown virtually no inclination to help Ukraine, & Netanyahu & Putin (along with Trump & MBS) are like peas in a pod. Despite these countries being historically opposed to each other, their current leaders have much in common with one another.
However, I suppose it's conceivable that a European country's intelligence has found out & transferred such information to Zelensky.
Fair point on Israel's official stance — but it doesn't have to come from them directly. In a conflict this messy, with this many actors touching the technology, transfer can happen through indirect routes without anyone at the top signing off. Putin may simply be doing the math: the longer this goes on, if it *can* reach Zelensky, it eventually will.
Thank you for the work you do. You just might be the smartest person on Substack.
Laura is an Angel from God.
Czar Trump seizes St Petersburg from the capitulating #RazPutin. The shelling of #Ukraine to cease “inmediatamente”. Upon backstab by either party, the #SBU will take action. Reference: https://open.spotify.com/episode/645taRH4Qab6GIMOE7ZhLK #Telegraph 🇬🇧 #Slava-Ukraini 🇺🇦 #5th-Column 🦅
She is a wonderful person
She is very smart and knowledgeable
You're right about that
That's right
Very Strange he just welcomed the new leader of Iran there for medical treatment just a few days ago.
Unverified, but that’s the rumour about Mojtaba Khamenei.
Or it was a Putin double. By all accounts Mojtaba Khamenei was not in any state to check if it was really Putin.
That has yet to be vetifief
Maybe Putin has already gathered his wealth and secretly left the country for some safe haven (I don't know where that could be though!).
Jason Smart's substack is a good source on the decline of Putin and Russia's power.
Could be prostrate surgery or something medical.. I would give it a couple of more weeks.
There are many more signs of the instability of Putin's regime. Check Jason Smart's substack. He's studied Putin for decades, and goes into detail on all the facts indicating a regime in serious decline.
I am aware that there are signs of instability in Putin's regime, however so long as he has an iron grip on the KGB, the Police, the media, the oligarchs he is safe.
The big thing right now in Russia is that he hasn't been seen, he has disappeared for over a week. and the question is why? Health, hospital?
Putin doesn’t have an iron grip on anything. That’s just the image he works on projecting. Since starting the war, about 25% of the oligarchs and about one million men who wanted to avoid the possibility of a draft have left Russia.
The KGB hasn’t been around since probably the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The FSB is the current intelligence service, and it is in a power struggle against the military, which itself Putin doesn’t trust, especially since Prigozhin led his uprising and the military didn’t stop him. Officers in the military are getting shot by their own men or selling off equipment and pocketing the cash. Every individual in every faction is out to get whatever they can for themselves before the whole country falls apart.
The rise in oil prices is actually of less help than it might seem, because Russia is still tied in to a lot of black market contracts and Ukraine is bombing their oil refineries.
Putin started hiding the day after Khamenei was assassinated. He has twelve missile systems guarding his personal country residence, while all of Moscow has only sixty.
The internet is partially blacked out in Moscow and St. Petersburg because Putin is afraid of how discontent the people are growing, and businesses are losing millions every day. Banks are in trouble since people withdrew about 19 billion in savings after the start of the war.
I know most of what you wrote. Disagree about KGB. FSB is the KGB renamed, still the same old outfit, same old procedures, same old paranoia, same old assassination., same Orthodox Priests as agents.
I know Ukraine is blasting away at Russia's infrastructure with Drones, and they have agents,probably Russians inside the country helping.
I know about the blackouts, the banks, the inflation, the discontent. I read medium.com and it is a great source of news about the Ukraine Russian war.
Yet Putin keeps an iron grip on the populace, anyone who even calls it a war is arrested, all communications are monitored. Russia lives in a police state, and always has, only the Russias are accustomed to it and it is normalized.
If you know most of what I've said, then you know that indicates Putin doesn't have an iron grip on anything. That's the kind of Russian propaganda that's had the West tiptoeing fearfully around for decades. Putin is terrified of everything, from missiles to germs to his next in command, his government is falling apart with knives out, and the levels of security he attempts to surround himself with is an indication of the level of his own insecurity. The country is an failing gas station with a whipped, impoverished population 30% of whom have never seen an indoor toilet.
Probably beefing up security as he watches how easily Israel is killing Iranian leaders.
Putin keeps heavy antimissile armaments around his compound, and travels to Moscow less and less. He's very afraid, not just of attacks from outside but from various factions within his regime, as Russia weakens on all fronts. And Trump thinks Putin is strong! :)))
So why has he disappeared?
We can only hope that something bad happened to him. I think that would be awesome.
A trifecta with The Butcher, the traitor-in-chief and Netanyahu would be awesome!
Fascinating! And not just that Putin is "missing" but that living in Russia now involved "no internet". Yikes! And thanks!
"And all of this is happening against the backdrop of something far more visible inside Russia, where mobile internet blackouts have begun sweeping across Moscow, disrupting daily life and leaving residents increasingly cut off. Large parts of the capital have experienced significant outages in recent weeks, with authorities framing the disruptions as necessary for “security,” particularly to counter Ukrainian drone threats, even as many residents openly question whether that explanation tells the full story.
For millions of Muscovites, the impact has been immediate and disruptive, with payment systems failing, businesses losing revenue, and basic communication becoming unreliable, forcing people back to cash and, in some cases, older technologies like landlines, pagers, paper maps, and walkie-talkies. Commuters can’t call taxis, maps won’t load, and workers are crowding into cafés just to find stable Wi-Fi."
So sad if this is true
Whenever Putin is deposed they need to take care of that slob who’s buddied up with Bannon, Aleksander Dugin. He’s a guiding light to many westerners on the fascist right and must be silenced if we are ever to repair our democracy.
Interesting. Putin is probably wise to consider he might be taken out next. Of course, he could be sick or worse. As for the power disruptions this could be part of their drone defense strategy. As we see in Iran even if something happens to Putin someone will take his place, maybe someone worse.
Someone took Khamenei’s place as a figurehead, but we don’t even know if he’s alive. Larijiana was supposedly the one running things, but now he’s gone too. Most people don’t realize there are several factions held together inside the regime, and he was the last one capable of doing that. All of their top leadership is gone, and that still significantly weakens the regime’s cohesion and oppression capabilities.
I know it’s not particularly popular, but give it time to play out. Beyond all the death and suffering they’re responsible for in the ME, the regime has a lot of Ukrainian blood on its hands too. After losing Assad and Maduro, Putin losing Iran as a partner would be a huge plus for Ukraine and global security.
I agree. Russia really only needs China on its side especially as it looks like Putin has Trump who now has an excuse to lift sanctions
The problem with Iran is one of those factions in Iran will take over and it may well be even more of a hardline extremist faction.
Its also possible different factions begin fighting each other and Iran becomes a dysfunctional basket case with millions of civilian deaths and of angry people seeking revenge and martyrdom, and Irans energy resources offline for long periods, and with one faction in possession of highly enriched uranium bringing on a new age of terror. Perhaps that will be seen as a win to some of the players, but its certainly not going to make Americans at home any safer. With all the sanctions Iran was not much of a threat and was fairly predictable and stable. Not sure the $200 billion initial ask to pay for this War will reap any dividends
Of course the Utopian scenario is a faction which opens its arms to US and forgives what can only be described as a Pearl Harbor like attack on them. No doubt they will need to crush any dissent among their people who are not so forgiving .
Yeah, there’s definitely plenty of risk involved in toppling the regime. Trump being the babbling moron that he is, did a really poor job with the messaging on it. The core objectives of completely eliminating their ability to enrich uranium, work towards building a bomb, and minimizing their ballistic missile and drone production capabilities would still be a strategic win. It’d degrade their ability to arm proxies throughout the region, and remove a major player from the Russia, China, Iran and NK axis that seemed to be building up.
I’d love to see regime change, and for the Iranian people to be free though. They’re generally a great group, and even before the slaughter of civilians only about 20% of them supported the regime. That combined with how unified they were in rising up in January makes me optimistic that the right people would be able to take back control of the country. Unlike Iraq or Afghanistan, they’re not a bunch of different tribes united by religion, and they’re a mostly homogenous Persian culture that were a modern secular society before 1979.
That being said, I realize the difficulty in making that happen when the bad guys have almost all the weapons, and I think it’d be extremely difficult to see regime change with just an air campaign too. Very few people have an appetite for boots on the ground, including me, outside of maybe some very limited special forces operations. It seems like they’ve been hinting at having something else planned, and our intelligence agencies have heavy infiltrated their military and government. The regime has successfully royally pissed off all of their neighbors too, and behind closed doors some of them are pushing for regime change. Time will tell, but I’m hoping for the best for the Iranian people though.
I think it's a pretty stupid idea to try and kill Putin.
There is no one more expert than the Russians at carrying out assassinations.
Should they decide that's what they want to do.
Personally I think it's not a very wise idea to poke them through that hole.
Putin may be getting nervous as he watches Israel locating and killing one Iranian leader after the other.
Outstanding report and food for thought. Something is up...!
Thank you!
All rumours but I’d appreciate the announcements of Putin, Trump, Netenyahu deaths on behalf of the sane world.
Seems bad guys happen in 3s?
Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini
Putin, Trump, Netanyahu
Putin is obviously concerned Israeli targeting technology has made its way into Zelenski’s hands. I hope the fuck it has.
Israel has shown virtually no inclination to help Ukraine, & Netanyahu & Putin (along with Trump & MBS) are like peas in a pod. Despite these countries being historically opposed to each other, their current leaders have much in common with one another.
However, I suppose it's conceivable that a European country's intelligence has found out & transferred such information to Zelensky.
Fair point on Israel's official stance — but it doesn't have to come from them directly. In a conflict this messy, with this many actors touching the technology, transfer can happen through indirect routes without anyone at the top signing off. Putin may simply be doing the math: the longer this goes on, if it *can* reach Zelensky, it eventually will.
Good one! How *does* Israel know so much about Iran's leadership day to day?
Apparently they hacked a traffic system in Tehran, and studied the Ayatollah’s travel patterns.
They’re either working with dissidents they’ve recruited or some Israelis may be on the ground.
They're balls deep, all up in that theocracy’s agencies, and have been for years. Deep and broad intelligence penetration.
Interesting. So, the Soviet system is coming back; makes sense, the KGB never left.
I pray for Putin’s demise.
Thank you Olga
Good information to know. Thanks