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KILL DONALD TRUMP AND GET €50MN...’: Shock Bill Proposed In Iran Parliament; US Alarmed | WATCH
Times Of India
May 16, 2026

A major controversy is erupting after reports claimed that Iran’s parliament is reviewing a bill that would reward anyone who assassinates U.S. President Donald Trump. According to Iranian lawmaker Ebrahim Azizi, the proposed legislation would require the Iranian government to pay €50 million to any individual or organization carrying out what was described as a “religious and ideological mission.” Azizi reportedly told Iranian state television that the U.S. president, Israel’s prime minister, and the CENTCOM commander “must be targeted and subjected to reciprocal action.” The remarks are being linked to growing tensions between Washington and Tehran following years of confrontation after the 2020 killing of top IRGC commander Qassem Soleimani in a U.S. drone strike ordered by Trump in Baghdad.



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A shocking provocation coming out of Iran is now sending security alarms across Washington. According to Iranian
lawmaker Ibrahim Azizi, Iran's parliament is reviewing a controversial bill that would reward anyone who assassinates US President Donald Trump.
According to Iran International, the proposed legislation would reportedly require the Iranian
government to pay 50 million euros to any individual or organization that carries out what lawmakers described as a religious and ideological mission.
Azizi, the head of Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, told Iranian state television that lawmakers had prepared several
countermeasure bills since the beginning of the recent conflict. He declared that the president of the United States, Israel's prime minister, and the
sententcom commander must be targeted and subjected to reciprocal action.
Azizi added, "This is our right. Just as our imam was martyed, the president of the United States must be dealt with by
any Muslim or free person. The explosive rhetoric comes after reports earlier this year that mass text messages were
sent across Iran promoting an international campaign to reward the assassination of Trump. According to
reports, recipients were urged to register online and confirm their participation through SMS messages.
Thrronbased media outlets claimed the campaign had gathered nearly $290,000 supporters with pledged contributions reportedly reaching $25 million.
The issue has already triggered major security concerns inside the United States. Earlier this year, prosecutors
in New York released undercover video footage allegedly showing an Iran linked operative discussing a plot to
assassinate Trump ahead of the 2024 US presidential election. Federal prosecutors claimed the suspect
attempted to hire two men to carry out the killing, allegedly offering $5,000 upfront. Back in November 2024, the US
Department of Justice unveiled criminal charges tied to what officials described as a thwarted assassination plot
orchestrated by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Corps, the IRGC.
Trump has remained a high-profile target for threats linked to Iran ever since he authorized the killing of Cassam Solommani, one of the most powerful
military figures in the Islamic Republic. Solommani was killed in a US drone strike ordered by Trump in Baghdad in 2020.
Now with tensions between Washington and Iran once again reaching dangerous levels, this latest move from Iran's
parliament could push the confrontation into even more explosive territory.
After the shooting at Hilton Hall, fear of Iran's retaliatory action has gripped American security circles. This followed
a series of reports warning of an Iranian strike on American soil to avenge top commanders.
Now, former Defense Department intelligence officer has issued a chilling warning that the White House
correspondent a gun incident may have exposed dangerous vulnerabilities around President Donald Trump and America's top leadership.
Andrew Badger claims Iran now has fresh motive after witnessing what he called a serious security weakness.
Remember, chaos erupted at the Washington Hilton
Hotel on April 25th when authorities say a gunman stormed a security checkpoint and opened fire, forcing President
Donald Trump and senior officials to be rushed from the ballroom. According to reports, the suspect was identified as
Cole Thomas Allen, a 31-year-old from California who is now in custody. But the gunfire was only part of the shockwave.
Badger told Fox News Digital that hostile adversaries study moments like this carefully. He warned that when
enemies see weakness, it increases both confidence and motivation to strike. He specifically named Iran, saying Thran
has motive to target senior Trump officials, including the president himself. The reason goes back years.
Badger pointed to the 2020 killing of Kasam Solommani, the powerful Iranian commander killed in a US drone strike ordered by Trump near Baghdad airport.
Since then, Iranian leaders have repeatedly vowed revenge with slain Ali Kamini warning of severe retaliation in
the past. Badger says that unresolved anger remains active inside the Iranian regime and this latest security breach could be interpreted as a chance to act.
His most alarming warning focused on who was inside the room. Trump, Melania Trump, JD Vance, Mike Johnson,
journalists, and multiple top officials were gathered in one place. Badger noted that eight of the nine officials in the
presidential line of succession were reportedly present. Then he described a nightmare scenario. If the attacker had
explosives, drones, or accompllices, the consequences could have been catastrophic.
6 minutesBadger also warned that Iran and even Russia increasingly use proxies, criminals, and covert networks instead
of conventional warfare, making future plots harder to detect.
In the aftermath, Trump renewed his push for a dedicated White House ballroom, calling it a secure venue built with
every possible safety feature. One question now hangs over Washington. Was this an isolated shooting scare or a
warning shot exposing vulnerabilities America's enemies were already watching?
What I will say is it's very important to us that we get the truth and the facts about this case and any case out there as quickly as possible to dispel
some of that crazy nonsense that you do see uh running rampant online. Um, and I think the Department of Justice and the
FBI thus far have done a good job of disseminating the truth and the facts about this uh alleged uh attempted assassin.
White House press secretary Caroline Levit attributed the weekend's assassination attempt against President Donald Trump to a systemic demonization
by Democratic officials and media figures during a contentious briefing Monday.
Levit characterized the shooting at the Washington Hilton as the third major attempt on the president's life in two years, specifically citing violent rhetoric as the catalyst for the attack.
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Mojtaba's Hackers Target Man Behind 'Netanyahu's Secret UAE Trip, Abraham Accords': Epstein Link?
Hindustan Times
May 15, 2026 #Netanyahu #UAE #Israel

Was Netanyahu’s UAE outreach quietly breached in the middle of an escalating regional cyber and information war? A pro-Iran hacker collective calling itself Handala has claimed it successfully targeted a high-level figure allegedly tied to Israel’s diplomatic architecture with the Gulf, just days after reports resurfaced about Benjamin Netanyahu’s alleged wartime engagement with the United Arab Emirates. The group says the target is Samuel Shay, described in various reports as a central coordinator in Israel’s outreach strategy to Arab states under the Abraham Accords framework. The claims, amplified by Iranian media outlet Press TV, add another volatile layer to an already fragmented geopolitical landscape where cyber operations, diplomacy, and proxy tensions increasingly overlap. Handala has also attempted to link Shay to broader allegations involving financial networks and controversial intermediaries, escalating the narrative beyond espionage into reputational warfare. At the same time, the Abraham Accords—once framed as a historic normalization breakthrough—are being recast in contested narratives of influence and covert coordination. As regional powers deny, accuse, and counter-accuse, the question is no longer just about what was hacked, but who controls the story of the Middle East itself.

Handala: Netanyahu’s UAE Visit Planner, Abraham Accords Architect, Targeted in Hack
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Islam Times - The hacker group Handala said it breached Samuel Shay, the mastermind of Netanyahu’s March United Arab Emirates visit and key architect of the Abraham Accords, revealing his covert network.

In a Thursday statement accompanied by published images, the group said it had targeted the "mastermind behind Netanyahu’s UAE visit" and the central figure behind the United States-backed normalization agreements between the "Israeli" occupation entity and regional states, asserting that his communications and network has been compromised.

Handala said Shay was a key coordinator of behind-the-scenes arrangements between "Israel" and Gulf states, and a central facilitator of covert economic, political, and "security" relations between "Tel Aviv" and Abu Dhabi.

The group stated that, through entities such as Gulf Technology Systems, Shay has established an extensive network of joint projects spanning technology, energy, investment, agriculture, and strategic infrastructure involving "Israel", the UAE, and other Arab states.

According to Handala, the network represents corruption, money laundering, the transfer of "Israeli" security technologies to suppress people in the region, and betrayal of the Palestinian cause.

It further noted that "all secret contracts, financial transfers, training of 'security' forces, and even economic and intelligence espionage against the Axis of Resistance" were directly overseen by Shay and his team.

The group also said that, based on the released materials, Shay’s involvement in "freezing Hezbollah's assets and weakening resistance in Lebanon" is fully documented.

Handala stated that published files showed Shay introduced late convicted sex trafficker and financier Epstein to Emirati businessman Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, leading to the involvement of Emirati figures in Epstein’s network.

It added that "Israeli" spy agency Mossad used this channel to pressure individuals into compliance.

The group released 265 pages of Shay’s communications, contacts, and financial data online, and shared related intelligence with pro-resistance countries.

Addressing audiences in the United States and Europe, Handala stated, "The truth is not what has been portrayed through massive spending, corrupt media, and joint projects."

Epstein and others "spent billions presenting regional agents as ‘honorable role models and symbols of prosperity,’" but these funds "brought nothing but poverty, corruption, repression, and betrayal to Muslim lands."

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Days after revelation surrounding Benjamin Netanyahu's reported visit to the United Arab Emirates, a pro-Iran hacker group claimed it had targeted a
key figure allegedly connected to the outreach [music] effort. The Handala group claimed responsibility for hacking an individual it described as one of the central figures behind Netanyahu's
reported diplomatic and strategic engagement with the UAE. A figure described by some reports as a major architect of Israel's outreach to Arab
nations under the Abraham Accords has reportedly become the target of a major cyber breach controversy. Pro-Iran hackers also attempted to link Samuel
Sha to convicted financia Jeffrey Epstein, adding another explosive dimension to an already politically charged controversy involving Israel, the Gulf, and the United States.
Pro-Iran hackers have claimed to target a highle figure allegedly linked to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and sensitive regional diplomatic operations involving the
Gulf. The Handala hacker group specifically claimed that it had targeted Samuel Shea, whose name has surfaced in multiple reports connected to Israeli outreach efforts in the
region. According to the hackers, Samuel Shea played a central role in organizing Netanyahu's alleged wartime visit to the United Arab Emirates during the ongoing
regional crisis. Handler's allegations were reported by Press TV on May 15th at a time when global attention was also focused on Donald Trump's closely
watched diplomatic trip to China. The hacker group also described Samuel Shea as one of the key architects behind the Abraham Accords, which reshaped
diplomatic relations between Israel and several Arab states. The Abraham Accords were first signed in 2020 and led to the formal normalization of ties between
Israel and multiple Arab nations across the Middle East and North Africa. The Iranback group said, and I quote, "Sheay was a key coordinator of
behind-the-scenes arrangements between the Israeli regime and Persian Gulf States and a central facilitator of
covert economic, political, and security relations between Tel Aviv and Abu Dhabi. Through entities such as Gulf
Technology Systems, SHA has established an extensive network of joint projects spanning technology, energy, investment,
agriculture, and strategic infrastructure involving the regime, the UAE, and other Arab states. The network
represents corruption, money laundering, transfer of Israeli security tech to suppress people, and betrayal of Palestinians.
All secret contracts, financial transfers, training of security forces, and even economic and intelligence
espionage against the Axis of resistance were directly overseen by Shea and his team. She's involvement in freezing Hezbollah's assets and weakening
resistance in Lebanon is fully documented. Sheay introduced late convicted sex trafficker and financia Epstein to Emirati businessman Sultan
Ahmed bin Sulain leading to the involvement of Emirati figures in Epstein's network. Israeli spy agency Mosad used this channel to pressure individuals into compliance.
The Handala Hacker Group has accused Western media outlets of deliberately hiding what it calls the truth, claiming the financial influence and coordinated
propaganda campaigns are shaping how regional events are presented to global audiences. The group also alleged that billions of dollars were spent to construct what it described as fake
regional role models, suggesting that certain narratives were engineered to present a more favorable image of political and economic developments.
Handala further claimed that vast sums of money were used to whitewash the normalization process between Gulf states and Israel, arguing that public perception was being carefully managed
to support a broader geopolitical agenda. The hackers also argued that the dominant prosperity narrative being promoted across international platforms
conceals what they describe as the harsher reality of political repression and instability across parts of the region.
The Handala hacker group reportedly emerged in the aftermath of the October 7th attacks on Israel and the subsequent escalation of the Gaza war, positioning
itself within the broader wave of cyber activity linked to the regional conflict. According to multiple reports, the Handala hacking collective has been
allegedly linked to Iran's Ministry of Intelligence, although these claims remain unverified and are part of ongoing cyber attribution disputes. The
group is also said to rely on a range of cyber intrusion techniques, including fishing campaigns, data theft operations, and web shell attacks to
target Israeli institutions as well as their regional and international allies.
In a historic development, Israel has revealed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu conducted a previously undisclosed visit to the United Arab
Emirates amid the ongoing Iran conflict, marking a significant diplomatic moment during heightened regional tensions. The Prime Minister's Office of Israel
confirmed that Benjamin Netanyahu made this covert visit during the course of Operation Roaring Lion. While military and strategic operations were still
actively unfolding during the trip, Netanyahu reportedly held a discreet and closely guarded meeting with UAE President Muhammad bin Zed, reflecting
the sensitivity and highle nature of the engagement. According to reports, this encounter marks the first officially acknowledged face-to-face meeting
between the two leaders, highlighting a rare moment of direct diplomacy at the highest level. The prime minister's [music] office stated that the discussions led to what it described as
a historic breakthrough in relations between Israel and the UAE, signaling a potential shift in regional cooperation.
A source familiar with the meeting indicated [music] that the talks took place in the city of Alaina near the Oman border on March 26th, adding
further detail to the previously undisclosed diplomatic timeline. The meeting reportedly lasted several hours and was conducted entirely in secrecy
with no public disclosure or media coverage until the details emerged much later. This development comes in the aftermath of earlier failed peace
negotiations and at a time when US President Donald Trump is visiting China, [music] adding a wider geopolitical backdrop to the event. The announcement also comes
6 minutesin the wake of separate reports suggesting that the heads of Israel's two primary intelligence agencies carried [music] out visits to the United Arab Emirates during the ongoing
conflict with Iran, further deepening the picture of behind-the-scenes diplomatic and security coordination during wartime conditions. According to
these reports, the leaders of Israel's two main intelligence organizations are said to have independently traveled to the UAE in recent months, indicating a
coordinated but carefully concealed pattern of high level engagement despite the public sensitivity [music] of the conflict. According to intelligence
reports, MOSAD director David Barer is believed to have visited the UAE at least twice during the war period as reported by international media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal.
Further reports suggest that these meetings were held in March and April, indicating a sustained pattern of back channel diplomacy between the two nations during a highly volatile period.
Meanwhile, Shinbet chief David Zeni is also reported to have visited the UAE in recent weeks. According to the Times of Israel, the United Arab Emirates has
denied reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secretly visited the country during the ongoing USIsrael war with Iran, calling the claims unverified and inaccurate.
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Mojtaba’s Firepower Wins: US Navy Set To Lose 2,080 Tomahawk Missiles Just When It Needs Them Most?
Hindustan Times
May 17, 2026

A fresh wave of Kremlin-aligned nuclear rhetoric is drawing attention after reports claimed pro-Russian channels threatened that Russia’s Sarmat missile, often referred to in media coverage as “Satan-2,” could destroy the British prime minister’s residence at Downing Street. The claims were presented as media-reported threats from pro-Kremlin accounts and channels, not as an official Russian government strike announcement.

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Russian Strikes on Europe's NATO Members Now Inevitable
Reason2Resist with Dimitri Lascaris
May 18, 2026

Last month, Russia's Ministry of Defence published a list of factories in Europe that produce drones for Ukraine.

At the time, Russia's Defence Ministry warned the EU that Europe was escalating the war by supplying Ukraine with more and more drones, and that its escalation would lead to "unpredictable consequences".

This past weekend, Ukraine launched its largest drone attack on Russia since the war began in February 2022.

Dimitri Lascaris reviews recent ominous developments in Russia and argues that, as a result of Europe's escalating provocations, Russia will launch missile strikes on military-industrial facilities on EU territory, and will likely do so before the end of 2026.



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Good day. This is Dimmitri Lasceris coming to you from Kalamata, Greece for Reason to Resist on May 18th, 2026.
I'd like to begin today's report by making a bold prediction and one which I
am not at all happy to have to make. And my prediction is that before the end of 2026,
Russia will retaliate to the West's countless provocations by striking at
least one militaryindustrial target in at least one European NATO country. uh and Russia, let me say at the outset,
might well go further than that uh before the end of the year by striking several militaryindustrial targets in several European NATO countries.
Uh in my view, the prime candidates for these uh targeted attacks are Poland,
the United Kingdom, Germany, Romania, and the Baltic states. Now, although it might be that Russia will carry out one
or more of these strikes with tactical nuclear weapons, I think it's much more likely that Russia will strike these targets at least initially with
conventional weapons and uh most likely with hypersonic missiles.
Whether Russia will then resort to nuclear weapons will depend entirely or at least uh in large part on how Western
governments react to these targeted strikes by conventional weapons. In this report, I'm going to explain why I'm
making this prediction. Uh but before I begin, I'd like to remind you that if you find this video to be informative, please do like and share it. And if
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2 minutessurpassing 200,000 subscribers uh before the 2-year anniversary of reason to resist which uh is at the end of the
summer this year. So with that, let's now turn to recent developments in Russia and the Ukraine war uh which form
the basis of the uh admittedly dark prediction that I just started my report with today. Over the weekend, Ukraine
launched its largest drone attack on Russia since the Ukraine war began more than four years ago. The number of
drones used by Ukraine reportedly exceeded 1,500.
And uh most of them appear to have targeted Moscow. And you see here a report uh published yesterday by Al
Jazzida uh which discusses the results of those attacks. At least five people uh Al Jazza reported have been killed
after Ukraine launched what Russian officials described as one of the largest drone barges of the war. I think it's actually the largest sending waves
of unmanned aircraft towards Moscow and several other regions overnight.
Interestingly, the Indian embassy according to Al Jazza uh in Russia said one Indian worker was killed and three others were injured during the drone
attacks in the Moscow region. Uh and by the way, if you know, Voluon Zilinski is trying to poison Ukrainian relations with India, he seems to be doing a
mighty fine job. Uh the Al Jazza article goes on to uh state that Moscow region's governor Andre Vorbof added that a woman
was killed after a drone slammed into a house in Kimi north of Moscow. uh and uh the uh regional governor added that the
apartment buildings and infrastructure sites were also damaged in the attacks.
Moscow uh is obviously not the same place that it was before this war began.
Uh the frequency with which it is being struck uh by Ukrainian drones is increasing and the lethality of the attacks also appears to be on the rise.
CGTN Europe has published a brief video compilation of this massive drone strike and I'd like to uh share it with you now.
you saw from that video, although a number of those drones were intercepted over Moscow and uh by Russian accounts,
the vast majority of the incoming drones were uh intercepted. Nonetheless, uh several of them struck high-rise
apartment buildings. Others struck uh uh uh uh infrastructure, communications infrastructure such as an antenna and uh
also energy infrastructure causing uh large fires which uh the emergency workers struggled to put under control overnight.
Now what happened uh this p this weekend is not an isolated event at this stage of the war. Uh it is in fact part of a
larger pattern and that's the part that should concern us the most uh that the situation is escalating. Since last year
NATO and its Ukrainian proxy have expanded their drone attacks. The attacks are becoming larger and they're going deeper into Russia's strategic
rear. Today, France's paper of record, Lemon, published an article which correctly reported that Ukraine is now
capable of striking 2,000 kilometers from its border with Russia. And the Leond article stated as follows, the
Ukrainian military is now regularly striking, I repeat, regularly, deep inside Russian territory, exposing the Kremlin security flaws for all to see.
Uh in recent months, the range of Ukrainian drones has extended to the heart of the Eurals. The ancient mountain chain dividing European Russia
from Asian Russia. Cities nearly 2,000 kilometers from the Ukrainian border such as Taly, Chelabinsk, Yak
Yakatarinberg, Perum, and Chebac Chebukadi have been repeatedly targeted.
Now, uh although the Leond report is accurate in some respects, it does suffer from at least two significant
defects. First, Lemon uh claims that the drone strikes, as you just heard, have
exposed Russia's security flaws. That's the phrase it used. There is, however, a mountain of evidence uh that Russia
possesses the world's best air defense system, certainly amongst the very best.
The problem is that no one uh including Russia has yet developed an air defense system that provides perfect protection
from drones and especially large swarms of drones. Indeed, the latest USIsrael war of aggression on Iran has
demonstrated conclusively that uh Israel's air defenses uh are and not just Israel's but the
best air defenses that the United States can muster have been uh repeatedly penetrated uh not only by the drones of
Iran uh but also by drones uh shot from Yemen by Ansalah and uh particularly
from South Lebanon by uh the Lebanese resistance. distance. In the past few weeks, Hezbollah has succeeded
repeatedly in piercing Israel's air defenses with drone swarms that are tiny compared to those that Ukraine now
employs with the full backing of Western militaries and almost certainly with intelligence provided by the United
States military. And I'm just going to show you one of those dozens of uh Lebanese resistance videos uh showing
the efficacy of their drone strikes on uh targets, military targets in northern occupied Palestine and South Lebanon.
Heat.
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Now, a few points about this video, and this is just one of many. I I I could show you dozens and dozens of video like this. Uh there's no indication that this
drone strike was part of a swarm. Uh there are no other drones visible in that video. uh and nor is there the
apparent aftermath of some drone that struck before this drone uh entered the scene and hit its target. Uh secondly,
there was absolutely no indication that this drone encountered any uh fire from the ground, any air defense uh opposition as it was coming in. And in
fact, it came in very slowly. It came in so slowly that it was able to capture useful uh surveillance footage and you
know uh relay it back to uh the operator of the drone in Lebanon which would be used potentially in subsequent attacks.
Uh it didn't come in at high speed. It came in quite slowly in a leisurely pace and it struck a Marava tank and happened
11 minutesto you record that there were other Macava tanks and uh you know military uh pieces of military hardware in the
vicinity at the time. So, if the Lebanese resistance with its tiny military budget uh can get away with
this, you know, just by using single drones or perhaps very small uh drone swarms like five or 10, 15 drone swarms.
And I and I've seen no evidence, by the way, that the Lebanese resistance has ever been able to amount amount a single
attack involving a 100, 150, or 200 drones. Uh it simply doesn't appear to have that many drones at its disposal.
And yet every single day it is piercing Israel's air defenses. So as I say, the problem uh that Russia confronts is not
unique to Russia. In fact, Russia's probably better capable of dealing with this problem than any other military in the world, including the United States
and uh Israel. But the problem is that no one has yet developed a technology that provides perfect or anywhere close to perfect uh protection uh from these
kind of large-scale drone attacks attacks. And that poses uh a serious challenge for Russia's national security.
Now u one month ago, Russia's government published a list of European drone suppliers.
Uh and here is a report in Euro News uh about uh the publication of that list.
Uh and when it published the list, the uh Russian defense ministry said that joint ventures between European
corporations and Ukrainian corporations pursuant to which uh these drones are being produced are a step towards
escalation. That's the phrase that the Russian Defense Ministry used. It added that such collaboration risks quote increasingly dragging European countries
into war close quote. And one Russian official, according to Euron News, called the manufacturers themselves
potential military targets. In late March, some EU governments decided to increase the production and supply of drones to Ukraine for use uh in strikes
on Russian territory and to expand the financing of enterprises located in European countries for the production of
attack drones and their components. The Russian Ministry of Defense added, quote, "We regard this decision as a deliberate step leading to a sharp
escalation of the military and political situation on the entire European continent and the creeping transformation of these countries into
Ukraine's strategic rear close quote." And the Russian Ministry of Defense added uh that strikes against Russia
using drones produced in Europe could lead to quote unpredictable consequences close quote. And uh let me assure you uh
my friends that uh given the evidence, the undeniable, indisputable evidence
that uh European NATO members are providing uh the Ukra the Ukrainians
with both the material uh the physical means and the intelligence and the United States is also doing this to
launch these attacks on Russian territory particularly against civilian civilian targets and you saw uh that a
number of those drones did strike uh civilian infrastructure uh with lethal consequences. Uh the uh Russians have a
right under the laws of war to strike the facilities that are producing uh these uh lethal uh military uh weapons.
Uh so uh for uh reasons that should be of uh uh should be a matter of some
discussion in the west uh you know the Russians until now have refrained from striking a single target on uh outside
of Ukraine. There's no evidence that they have intentionally targeted any uh military-industrial facility or military
base or even civilian uh target inside a European member of NATO uh or even
indeed in a country like Moldiva uh which uh is not part of NATO uh but which in some ways does appear to be uh
assisting Ukraine. So, uh, rather than heed the stark warning that the Russians
gave at the time they published this list of European, uh, facilities that were being used to manufacture drones for Ukraine, the EU and its Ukrainian
proxy decided to escalate their drone attacks on Russia. It seems uh, at the end of the day that Europe's uh,
deranged political elite wants war with Russia. Uh almost all of Europe's NATO members uh Spain is an honorable
exception have agreed uh since Trump returned to the White House in January of last year to raise their military
spending uh to the extraordinarily and extraordinary and ruinous level of 5% of GDP.
uh then they boldly declared that uh they would be ready for war with Russia
in uh 200 and 30. Here is an article from Politico Europe uh published last
year uh which talks about this open declaration of their intention to be ready for war uh with the Russian
Federation within less than four years time. And if you think about it, uh, if you're sitting in the leadership chair
of the Russian government, why would you wait until the Europe's Europeans are ready to wage war against your country?
Uh, when uh, you have the ability to strike them now when by their own implicit admission, if not explicit admission, they're not ready for war. If
you're going to protect your people, ensure your national security, you believe the attack is coming. And in fact, it's not just coming, it's
ongoing. And given the amount of money that European governments are committing uh to the militarization of the continent, uh you can anticipate that
this is just going to escalate. In fact, they just gave to Ukraine a 90 billion euro loan. Uh it's not a loan, by the
way. Europe, Ukraine is never going to be able to pay that money back. That is a fraud they're perpetrating on the peoples of Europe. It was yet another gift uh to the corrupt Zalinski regime.
But you can be sure that even after uh the corrupt Zilinski regime skims off hundreds of millions or maybe even a few
billion euros from that so-called loan, there's going to be a lot of money left uh to sustain attacks on Russia for many
months to come. And as I say, if you're uh, you know, telegraphing to a nuclear armed state that you're getting ready to
wage war against it in less than four years time, you are incentivizing the state in question to attack you
18 minutesbefore you develop uh the capacity to wage war against it. Now on top of this, Russia's government is coming under
increasing pressure to punish Europe for enabling Ukraine's deadly strikes deep into Russian territory. Uh pressure from
within the country itself. The war has now been going on as I mentioned for more than four years. uh Russian soldiers, the number of them killed in
action surely is in the tens of thousands at this stage may well exceed uh 100,000 and by a wide margin. We may
be into the hundreds of thousands. I don't believe these fantastical claims.
There's no evidence to back them up that the Russians have suffered uh you know millions killed in action, but the
number certainly could be uh several hundred thousand and it's definitely got to be over 100 thousand by this stage.
Uh at a bare minimum as well, hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers have been wounded. Many of the wounded have been permanently disabled. In addition,
19 minutesalthough Russia's economy performed remarkably well for the first three years of the war, uh it now appears to have entered a period of relative
stagnation. Um the IMF recently raised its uh GDP growth forecast for the Russian Federation for
2026 to 1.1% a meager 1.1% uh from 0.8% and that is due uh to
higher prices for oil and other commodities uh which Russia has in abundance. Uh the article notes here,
this is a Reuters article, that the Russian economy slowed sharply in 2025 to around 1% growth. So that's last year
from 4.9% in 2024 due to the central bank's tight monetary policy and western sanctions. Uh the economy is also under
strain from spending on the war in Ukraine. Uh this is a matter of some controversy in Russia by the way. the very tight monetary policy of the
Russian central bank, uh high interest rates which appear to be designed uh to
uh uh tampen in tamp down on inflation and uh support uh the Russian ruble. But
uh in any case, although these numbers uh aren't uh you know what one could reasonly describe as economic crisis, uh
this is not uh helping the uh standing of the Russian government uh with the Russian people. And I'm sure that a lot
of Russians are beginning to be concerned about the economic impacts of the sanctions and the war on the country, much more so than uh was the case uh let's say about 2 years ago.
Uh and of course uh this is uh reflected in the polls. Uh the polling figures uh
that I'm about to show you are from the uh reputable Russian polling firm uh Lvada. And Lvada, by the way, is not uh
friendly to Vladimir Putin. It is actually critical of Vladimir Putin. Uh but nonetheless, uh I have repeatedly cited its uh polling figures. I believe
them to be uh essentially reliable and they are cited widely by people in both the corporate media and in the
alternative media. And uh according uh to Lvada, let me just put up on the
screen here uh the uh results of its most recent polling.
The uh approval rating for the Russian government has fallen from u approximately 77%
one year ago in May 2020 2025 to 63% uh last month in April of this year. Now
uh 63% is a pretty good uh level of support compared to most western governments
nowadays especially the hapless and widely despised governments of the United Kingdom, France, Germany and the
United States. But uh the trajectory of public opinion in Russia must be causing uh significant concern to Russia's
leadership. In addition uh and this is uh equally troubling uh from my perspective uh respected voices in
Russian politics have become increasingly outspoken about the need to strike Europe and strike it hard. Uh
recently Professor Sergey Karagonov gave an extremely important interview to Norwegian political scientist uh Glenn Diesen. By the way we've had Glenn
Diesen on our program. uh he offers vitally important geopolitical analysis and this was a very important interview
that Glenn did recently. Uh Professor Karagonov heads the Russian Council for Foreign and Defense Policy. He's also the dean of the faculty of world economy
and international affairs at Moscow's Higher School of Economics. He has been presidential adviser to Vladimir Putin
and is considered close to President Putin and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lav. Now, I'm going to play for you a full five minute clip of Glenn uh
Glenn's interview of Professor Katagonov. Uh I know that that's a bit on the long side, a five-minute clip, but in my opinion, it is eminently worth
listening to in its entirety. throughout this uh conflict or at least over the past four years there there seemingly
been a always a dilemma in Russia that is um as NATO side escalates again and the NATO
side did recognize it escalated. I always point out that Joe Biden once argued that sending F-16s would mean
World War II. So uh but kind of we kind of crossed all these lines and uh uh but for the Russians I guess they always had
to choose. They want to keep things stable or you know either risk uh world war by by retaliating or not retaliating
but then essentially a bold emboldening the other side and then see further escalation. So how you've argued for the
need to actually use nuclear weapons though in order to essentially restore it deterrent. Is it correct?
Yeah. Uh this war has brought a lot of benefits to Russia.
Um it had recuperated from and uh its idleness. Uh we have u restored our soul and our honor.
uh we have uh uh started to value uh those people in our society which are
truly valid meritocratic uh elites scholars uh doctors officers.
So uh and the country is becoming more healthier uh but for that we are paying for too many bodies.
Uh so my advice uh to my government uh at this juncture
uh is that uh we should stop uh this war at least in uh in Europe
uh by going uh up the ladder of escalation first attacking
uh uh by commercial weapons uh uh certain symbolic or uh logistical
uh points on the European soil. We So in case you didn't make it out, what he said there was by striking certain
logistical points uh he characterized this as symbolic in nature on European soil. That's his recommendation for the first uh escalatory step.
Not an inch of Europe as you might understand. And then if they do not
succumb uh uh uh we should follow with nuclear strikes
relative to the mass uh with of course uh uh uh offering
uh uh uh some kind of ultimatum uh if they do not succumb
some of the countries of Europe should perish. That is my suggestion though I pray God and I'm a believer.
Look, I I shouldn't have to repeat this, but this is what he said. Okay? A man who commands respect amongst the Russian
leadership, some of the countries of Europe should perish. Uh now listen to what he has to say in the balance of his commentary.
That that wouldn't happen. But I believe that uh these people have lost their minds, lost uh sense of history.
These elites, they are totally responsible and they should be punished.
So that's why in addition to many other things I uh propose that our military nuclear doctrine
uh should concentrate uh not only on uh deterring attacks against uh Russia
proper uh but it should concentrate against uh
uh punishing uh uh European elites including uh with special munitions
uh which would do away with their bunkers and uh the first waves should go there.
The European elites which are senseless uh which are responsible should suffer
first not the European peoples. uh but we are debating this issue and soon
later this uh debate will come to the physician.
Well, I remember you made this arguments um a while back already but do you do you get a feeling that the mood in the
Kremlin is shifting now more towards your arguments or um or has not moved that much?
I am not uh here to talk about the mood in Kremlin. When I started uh three
years ago uh to put the idea on the table uh I was um the proud voice of a minority.
uh now I am a voice of overwhelming majority both in the military in the
political circles and in the society to repeat he says that he was in the minority when
he began to advocate for this three years ago but now he's in the overwhelming majority in the military political circles and uh Russian society
29 minutesum you'll see that he mercifully indicated his suggestion is that they target Europe European elites at the beginning if Russia were to effectively
eliminate European elites uh as an escalatory step. I I do wonder how many Europeans would be upset about that at
the end of the day. But uh let us hope uh that we can find a peaceful way to deal with the madness of these uh elites. Um and I want to talk a little
bit about two other things uh before I wrap it up.

Uh the first thing is uh the
question of morality. Uh now you can take the position that uh you know Russia deserves what it's getting and I know that there are a lot of people in
Europe uh who say this. I for myself don't agree with this. I've been talking about this since 2022. I believe that uh
Western governments provoke this war. I think they wanted and tried for many years to get Russia to invade Ukraine uh
because they wanted a pretext to force European governments to uh separate themselves from the Russian energy
sector so that Europe would then become weaker. It would have to buy more expensive uh energy from the United
States which exactly what it did. And uh this has not only made Europe weaker but it's made the United States richer. Uh
so in order to get Europeans to go along with that project, they needed some dramatic Russian uh active aggression
and the uh invasion of Ukraine which they orchestrated, they provoked was just what the doctor ordered. The plan
worked uh brilliantly from the perspective of you know making Europe uh weaker and dependent to a far greater
degree on the United States while it's simultaneously enriching the uh energy se sector of the United States to an even greater greater degree. They also
wanted western governments to have a pretext to impose economy destroying sanctions on Russia and so the invasion
of Ukraine provided them uh with that pretext. You know, the provocation started all the way back in 2014 when the west did provoke a coup in Ukraine.
The democratically elected uh you know president of the country Yanukovich uh who was simply trying to maintain
good relations with both Europe and Russia. He wasn't a puppet of Russia as has been claimed. He was trying to maintain relations with both which was a
sensible thing to do given the fact that Ukraine shares a long border with Russia and a great history with Russia while at the same time sharing border with
European uh NATO uh members. Uh but you know doing that careful balancing act was a bridge too far for the west and so
they orchestrated a coup and Yanukovich was replaced by uh virulent Russian n uh Ukrainian nationalists who were deeply
hostile to Russia to everything Russian including the language, the culture, the history, the church, you name it. Uh and
then a civil war broke out. uh the people who were from the predominantly Russian-speaking parts of the country in the south and the east of Ukraine who
had voted overwhelmingly for Yanukovich felt that their votes had been stolen from them and they said we don't recognize this government and that's
ultimately what led to a civil war in which many innocent civilians uh in the Russian speaking predominantly Russian
speakaking east and south of the country uh were killed uh by Ukrainian forces.
Uh so even though that happened back in 2014, it wasn't until 2022, eight years later, that Russian forces
entered uh Ukraine on mass. And even when they did that, uh Vladimir Putin did not send a large enough army to
occupy Kiev or conquer the country. Uh it looks very much as though what he was trying to do was to force the uh
Ukrainian Ukrainian government to come to the negotiating table uh to do some kind of a deal that would respect the rights of the Russian speakers and bring
an end to the hostilities. uh and he almost succeeded in that except that when Ukraine a couple of months after
this war, this invasion began, uh was on the verge of signing a peace deal, uh the psycho zombie Joe Biden sent his uh
Chihuahua from London, Boris Johnson, uh to uh speak with Zilinsky and he ended up tanking Zilinsky ended up tearing up
the deal that he was on the verge of signing. Uh and it was at that point uh that the war intensified. So, uh, I
would have preferred, and I wrote this at the the time back in 2022, that there would not be an invasion of Russia, uh, but to pretend that we are innocent in
all of this and that our motives are pure and that our support for Ukraine is driven by our deep respect for democracy
and our concern that the principles of international law be upheld as utterly laughable. All you have to do is look at the way Western governments have
conducted themselves in West Asia, particularly Palestine, to understand that they don't give a damn about international law, human rights,
democracy, or just even basic human decency. Okay? So, that's what this war is all about.

But let's suppose you disagree with all that. Let's suppose
you decide you want to ignore the historical record and drink the NATO Kool-Aid and say this was an unprovoked aggression and Russia's trying to
reconstitute the Soviet Empire and all the rest of that nonsense. You buy it, you believe it. Okay, fine. Do you
really want to risk the future of all that you hold dear? your children, uh your home, your life, your health, uh
the future of humanity, uh so that Ukraine can retain uh you know 20% or
25% of its pre-war territory. Are you willing to risk it all for that? Uh why are we telling the Palestinians, the
Western governments, though they claim to be uh supporters of the two-state solution, right? Well, if the two-state solution were actually to be implemented
and Israel has done everything it can to destroy the two-state solution and for all intents and purposes, it's dead because of Israel's actions and actions that have been supported by the West.
But let's suppose that Israel uh you know uh actually implemented the two-state solution. The Palestinians would end up not with 80% or 75% of
historic Palestine, which is what Ukraine would end up with if uh it accepted Russia's demands. it would end
up with 75 or 80% of uh the pre-war Ukrainian territory. No, if the two-state solution were implemented, the
Palestinians would get something like 20% 15 to 20% of historic Palestine.
Okay? So, we're telling the Palestinians, our governments are telling the Palestinians, and they're not even serious about it. They actually do not support the two-state solution.
They're helping Israel to take all of it, and they have been from the very beginning of the creation of Israel. But let's take them at their word. Okay,
fine. So why are you saying to the Palestinians they should be content with 15 or 20% of historic Palestine, but you think it is outrageous that the
Ukrainian should have to give up a single inch of their territory to the Russians? Even the parts of their territory that are uh occupied or that
are inhabited predominantly by Russian speakers who want nothing to do with the Ukrainian nationalist government in Kiev. I mean, there's no way to square
this circle. There's no way to reconcile these positions. The hypocrisy is extreme. It's outrageous.

Uh but again,
even if you don't accept uh my uh account of how we got here and you think the way Russia is behaving is immoral
and they deserve uh to have their asses handed to them, at the end of the day, what you're dealing with here, you're dealing with a state that has the
world's most uh destructive nuclear arsenal. It is a powerful state that has the ability to defend itself. It does
regard this war as existential and it will not capitulate. I said back in 2022 and I say it again, there are two ways and two ways only that this war can end.
One is with Ukraine capitulating, which doesn't mean giving up all of its territory, but giving up a significant chunk of it. Or we're all dead. Those
are the two options. Which option do you prefer?
That's my question to you folks.

Now, the last reason why I say that a an attack on European NATO member states by Russia is now inevitable, even though
Russia tried to avoid this for many years, just as they boxed Vladimir Putin into a corner and forced him to finally
send forces into Ukraine, they have now boxed him into a corner again and they're forcing him to launch attacks on European NATO member states. Why?
Because they want to go to war with Russia. They want to go to war with Russia. They're salivating for this war.
And they want the United States to come in full boore with them. That's how crazy these people are. Okay. Uh now,
but there's another factor here which leads me to believe that this is now inevitable and that is the war in Iran.
So, uh this is my final point and let me let me explain why I think it is relevant. It has now become apparent and it is undoubtedly known to a great many
Russians that during uh this criminal war of aggression on Iran uh which started on February 28th uh the Iranians
delivered uh devastating blows to multiple US military bases in the Persian Gulf. Even the corporate media
in the United States has been obliged to uh confirm uh through detailed reporting that most
of the US military bases in the Persian Gulf region have been rendered unusable.
That's the word they use to describe the deplorable condition of those military bases. Hardly any of them escaped serious damage. And as I say, a majority
of them appear to be completely unusable. So, not only did uh you know uh Iran in defense of its sovereign
territory uh strike Israel and other countries in West Asia uh that are
deeply allied with Washington, so-called allies when in fact they're proxies and vassels. Uh, not only did it
do that, but it actually struck US military bases repeatedly and killed US military personnel, shot down, you know,
the most advanced uh, war plananes that the United States has, shot down drones, launched missiles, and probably damaged
significantly a number of important uh, naval vessels in the United States Navy.
Uh, Iran did all of that and more. And Iran, my friends, does not have a single
nuclear weapon. Not one. So, if you're a Russian and you're sitting there looking at the situation your country finds
itself in, you've been waging war against the United States and Europe uh through Ukraine for over four years. Uh
tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of your soldiers have have died. Hundreds of thousands have been wounded. your economy has lost huge sums
of money uh because of these crushing sanctions.
uh and uh you see that your government, your military has not struck a single
European state that is uh aiding in every imaginable way the Ukrainian
effort to defeat Russia and to mount attacks against Russian soldiers, on Russian territory, against civilian targets, against key infrastructure.
Your government after all of this time has refrained from attacking a single European member of NATO.
Even just a pin prick strike on some particular military-industrial facility,
a symbolic strike as Katagonov said, not even that. And your country Russia has
the largest nuclear arsenal in the world. Okay, the most formidable deterrent to any kind of a major counterattack. You'd be asking yourself,
why the hell will my government not do what Iran did when Iran was willing to do it and got away with it and they don't have a single nuclear weapon?
There is no good answer to that question. Uh, if I'm a Russian and I'm looking at the situation and I'm reasonably well informed about what Iran
has managed to do during the course of this criminal war of aggression, I would be feeling mighty uncomfortable with my
government's reticence to inflict any kind of a punishment on the European states, especially the Chihuahua like,
you know, Estonia, La Lithuania, and Latia, which are constantly wararmongering and employing russophobic
rhetoric, you putting hostile forces on their soil, allowing Ukrainian drones to fly over their territory so they can attack strategic targets inside Russia.
You know, they won't even attack. They wouldn't even attack the Baltic states.
Now, I'm not saying that I want to see these states attack. I'm just telling you how I would feel if I were a Russian looking at the situation. Uh, I would be
asking myself, why is Iran able to do this without any nuclear weapons at all to deter a a crushing uh counter strike?
Uh, and we won't do it at all. We won't strike any of Washington's vassels in the region who are helping Ukraine, let
alone Washington itself. Uh so I think that the events in Iran uh are likely
Iran's success in inflicting severe punishment not just on Washington's vassels in West Asia but on the US
military itself directly is likely to be increasing significantly uh the political pressure on the Russian
government uh to make uh Europe's NATO members pay at least some of them uh and
43 minutespay severely for uh their enabling ling Ukraine to mount attacks deep inside Russia, including attacks uh that are
killing civilians. So, for all of those reasons, uh I uh am absolutely convinced at this stage, about as convinced as I
can be, uh that we are about to enter, uh a new phase of the Ukraine war, which will involve uh direct Russian strikes
on one or more uh European members of NATO.
And finally, a personal reflection. Uh, you know, many times I've wondered uh in
my life how Europeans allowed themselves to ignite and to become the central battlefield for not just one but two
world wars. Uh, and now I think I finally understand how that happened because I'm watching it happen in real time.
It happened uh as far as I can tell because of the complacency, the
arrogance and uh rampant nationalism of a large segment of the European population.
Far too many Europeans continue to view themselves as superior to the rest of the world. They seem to believe that they have some divine or even genetic
right to dominate the entire planet. But they do not. And the rest of the world understands this perfectly well and has
quite frankly had enough of it. If anything, the history of Europe proves that Europe is singularly unqualified to
be the leader of the free world. And so too are Europe's colonial progeny, the United States, Canada, Australia, and
New Zealand. How many genocides and wars of aggression must Europe and its colonial progeny perpetrate before
before we finally accept that Europe is colossally unfit to be the leader of the free world? How many systems of enslavement must Europe produce?
How many countries must it reduce to ruins? How many democratic movements must it crush? How many pristine
environments must it poison for generations to come? Ultimately, if you vote, and this is my most
important message to people listening to this report, if you vote for the Western political parties that provoke these
wars, or even if you just sit idly by and do nothing as they ignite and
escalate these wars, then you are responsible for the suffering they cause and for the historic the calamity that
is about to befall us all. and you have only yourself to blame when the calamity
comes to your own doorstep. I for one refuse to sit idly by as western elites
set fire to the planet. Uh and I know that many many members of our audience feel exactly as I do. Uh and for those
46 minutesof you who have not yet gotten to that point, uh my final words to you are the time to act is now. This is Dmitri
Lceris coming to you from Kalamata, Greece on May 18th, 2026.
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Sergey Karaganov: How Russia Will Win the New World War
Glenn Diesen
May 10, 2026

Professor Sergey Karaganov is an Honorary Chairman of the Council on Foreign and Defense and has been an advisor of Russia's political elites for decades. Prof. Karaganov wrote speeches for Brezhnev and advised Gorbachev, Yeltsin and Putin. Prof. Karaganov argues we are already in a new World War and argues that Russia can only win by pursuing massive escalation, which includes the use of nuclear weapons.



Transcript

Welcome back. We are joined today by Professor Sergey Karaganov, the head of
the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, also one of the more or most
influential Russian scholars on Russian foreign policy. Um, Professor Karagno
has written speeches for advice Gorbachov Yelin and of course, President
Putin and um was also a leading advocate for changing Russia's nuclear doctrine.
From what from what I understand, President Push Putin pushed back before eventually adopting a lot of these
suggestions. So, uh, thank you for taking the time. Thank you. It's a great pleasure and I
have been, uh, following your podcasts for quite some time and also of course
remember our conversations when in Moscow and elsewhere. This is a
pleasure. Thank you. Um I I I wanted to ask you
about uh yeah how this conflict has uh evolved and changed because over the
past four years we've seen some incredible developments though which were unthinkable during the cold war. So
for example we've seen uh NATO countries participating in missile attacks on
Russia. We see NATO countries backing the invasion of Kursk again Russian territory and seemingly assisted also in
the attack on Russia's nuclear triad as well as the early warning system. Again,
all of this is well used to be unthinkable at least during the cold war. So I was really looking forward to
yeah Russian perspective on what you see going on and where we're all heading because uh unfortunately in the west at
the moment we don't really discuss security concerns much of opponents anymore and there's not really that much
discussion about uh the direction and the risks uh that are being taken by going down this path. So um how how are
these developments assessed now in the Kremlin? Well, um we have been
procrastinating for too long and I have been criticizing my uh
fellows in the government and for tolerating western aggression
for too long. Uh hoping that we could uh find a solution.
Uh the solution is nowhere to be found at the juncture. Uh so I'm returning
back to what I have been proposing uh since uh 23 24 and uh this time I hope
uh my suggestions will uh come true though not in full. uh we have to
escalate and to punish uh uh
our this time European
uh uh uh
enemies for conducting uh an allout war against Russia. uh it
is uh uh this uh uh there are different
calculations uh uh I believe that it is a fourth world war if you take the Napoleon
Napoleonic war uh with 25 nations joining Napoleon invading Russia as the
first uh then was the first and the second uh now we have the third the
problem uh is not uh exactly uh on the middle fields of Ukraine.
Uh the problem is that uh overall uh the uh systematic change
of the world system brings about a
uh something like a second world war actually has started now. It has started
uh uh at first in in Ukraine when uh Americans were willing to undermine
Russia unleashed it and then Europeans uh
uh greetingly went into the Abbas. uh but now it is
also Middle East and uh uh Southeast South Asia and we see that that as a
third world war I have been I have decided to write about that already in
the open and you've got probably one of my first articles and and also the
several will follow yeah no I always argue that this is a
very dangerous time because whenever you see a massive shift in world order uh it
usually leads to a lot of instability. So as the world navigates from this uh uniolar moment for the collective west
towards a multipolar system you would hope that a lot of countries would um be
very careful in navigating and avoiding uh war and conflict and uh this is why
the absence of diplomacy has been yeah concerning to say the least. But I I did read your article though the uh how how
to win a world war and uh I was wondering if you could uh possibly yeah flesh out the argument uh and again I
hear this argument quite often as well that we are likely in a another world war now. So how do you see Russia's
position in this world war and well how how can Russia win this?
Well the problem is uh that uh we have to win and we have to win for two
reasons. one is to and stop this um um
bloodletting war uh in Ukraine which uh goes nowhere.
Okay. But uh towards more and more
uh victims on our side and 10 times more, five times more, three times more
on the Ukrainian side, etc., etc. And it is endless. and but sooner or later it
would and should escalate. Uh but the second
uh element uh of uh this war
is uh the prevention of the horizontal escalation which has started already
because as I have started I have said I mean a few a couple of months ago uh our
American partners enemies uh whomever they
uh uh according to I mean
following all predictions uh started to destabilize
uh South Urasia and that is the Middle East. It is not
about uh Iranian nuclear weapons. Uh it is um it is about destabilization of the
huge area uh starting from Madrib and going uh down uh from Southeast Asia and
that uh they have started to do and uh we have to uh think how to stop that. Uh
on the Ukrainian uh front uh it is relatively clear for me. Uh but it is a
much more uh deeper and uh uh profound task as uh to the inter the whole
international system. But uh throughout this conflict or at
least over the past four years there there seemingly been a always a dilemma in Russia that is um as um NATO side
escalates again and the NATO side did recognize it escalated. I always point out that Joe Biden once argued that
sending F-16s would mean World War II. So uh but kind of we kind of crossed all
these lines and uh uh but for the Russians I guess they always had to choose. They want to keep things stable
or you know either risk uh world war by by retaliating or not retaliating but
then essentially abol emboldening the other side and then see further escalation. So how you've argued for the
need to actually use nuclear weapons though in order to essentially restore it deterrent. Is it correct?
Yeah. Uh this war has brought a lot of benefits to Russia.
Um yeah it had recuperated from and uh its idleness. Uh we have u
restored our soul and our honor. uh we have uh uh started to value uh
those people in our society which are truly valable meritocratic
uh elites scholars uh doctors officers so and the country
is becoming more healthier uh but for that we are paying for too many bodies.
Uh so my advice uh to my government uh at this juncture
uh is that uh we should stop uh this war at least in uh in Europe
uh by uh going uh up the ladder of escalation first
attacking uh uh by commercial weapons uh
uh certain symbolic or uh logistical
uh points uh on the European soil. We do not need an inch of Europe as you might
understand. And then if they do not succumb uh uh uh
we should follow with nuclear strikes relative to the mess uh with of course
uh uh uh offering uh uh uh some kind of ultimatum.
uh if they did not succumb well some of the countries of Europe
should perish that is my suggestion though I pray God and I'm a believer
that that wouldn't happen but I believe that uh these people have lost their
minds lost uh sense of history
these elites they totally responsible and they should be punished. That's why
in addition to many other things I uh propose that our military nuclear
doctrine uh should concentrate uh not only on uh deterring attacks
against uh Russia proper uh but it should concentrate against uh
uh punishing uh uh European elites
including uh with the special munitions uh which would do away and now with
their bunkers and uh the first waves should go there.
The European elites which are senseless uh which are responsible should suffer
first not the European peoples. uh but we are debating this issue and as soon
later this debate will come to the physician.
I remember you made this arguments um a while back already but do you do you get a feeling that the mood in the Kremlin
is shifting now more towards your arguments or um or has not moved that
much? Um
I am not uh here to talk about the mud in Camelan. When I started uh three
years ago uh to put the idea on the table uh I was um the proud voice of a
minority and now I am a a voice of overwhelming majority both in the
military in the political circles and in the society. But again, I am not uh
calling uh for uh massive nuclear strikes as I know uh
that uh they would take away in but the problem is that uh
we have to stop this war at least in Europe. I will remove as I've said the
war uh is already uh expanding
and it is uh engulfing uh uh South Asia and southwestern Asia
and then it will spre spread because the attack against Iraq. Iran uh was
a predictability. Uh brought about not only curtailment of
uh of oil transactions or but also uh
curtainment of uh uh the flow of fertilizers and many other things. And
uh it was it was absolutely predictable. And that means that uh we will have a
new wave of instability also in the third world uh so-called third world. I
must say that uh from my point of view what is happening is that
um uh the historic quest which has been losing its historic predominance in
culture uh politics economics which allowed it to rob the world for 500
years uh is on
uh and uh uh the Europeans not quite understand
what they're doing but Americans I think do and well uh Mr. Trump with all his
jobs and jerks uh is looks to be a fine person he uh leads
his country as uh he had been told to
exactly in the direction of a of a historic we will not allow it.
Yeah, I wanted to ask about this as well because it seemed for a while that the
United States was looking to as the the Ukraine war wasn't going their way that
they were looking to unload it or at least outsource it to the Europeans and attempt to improve their bilateral
ties with Russia. But um but but this hasn't really moved much forward and
also the indeed the negotiations over Ukraine hasn't really moved forward either. What do you make of the
negotiations now? And you know what they refer to as the spirit of Alaska? Is this uh
the spirit of Alaska is a is a joke. Uh of course at some point of uh uh the
course of the continent of this war, we could uh agree to a truce,
some kind of truth. Uh but it would not be peace. The peace could be uh achieved
only when and if uh at least European elites are
uh uh thrown away by their peoples
uh and by their deep states because they are mad and they leading their countries
towards the big war. I was wondering what uh well what I initially said about uh the invasion of
Kursk and we were you surprised by the well very open support it got in at
least rhetorically but as we know also in terms of weapons and intelligence to
to support this as I said this would have been unthinkable during the cold
war. Uh I yeah I I I was wondering uh how do you see this uh this development
and uh this was my criticism of my uh my own government and my own uh political
class. We uh did not understand what kind of a conflict we are but we hope
that it is it was superficial. It was about Ukraine etc etc. Uh it is a it is
a world war. Uh and uh uh uh it is about an attempt
of rem of the old west uh to I mean it would be futile because
all the west will be destroyed if it continues or the world will be destroyed
but hopefully not. uh but we were uh thinking about how to
avoid how to agree how to find peacem solutions. We uh played with Minsk
processes for 3 years which was annotating mistake. Uh now we have we
are talking about this spirit of Alaska. Uh
uh I'm smiling and spirit is lost is about nothing
uh because if if and when uh we agree
something which is close to what uh President Trump uh proposed
u in Alaska uh then that would mean that in a year or so uh there the war would
uh resurrected and in full scale and of course with nucle. Uh so the spirit of
Alaska uh is a trap on one side or a mistake on the last side. I do not
trust the spirit of Alaska, though I hope that eventually
Americans and Russians would uh agree on
some uh rules of behavior uh towards each other.
But Europeans would not be a part of that game.
No, I Well, at least that's something the the US and the Russia trying at
least to improve relations, although I've also limited optimism for uh how far this can go. Um I I was speaking two
days ago with uh Professor John Mirshimer and he he he told me I should ask you uh I think something he had been
wondering about which was uh the uh the attack on the early warning radar system
of Russia the ones that were you know essentially used to detect a nuclear
strike something that would give Russia some time before a retaliatory strike. Essentially, this is seems like it's in
everyone's interest for each side to have some warning time, unless you're planning a first strike, of course. But
then also in June of last year, the attack on Russia's nuclear deterrent, which I heard from FSBE was uh had
assistance from uh the British MI6. Uh I was just wondering how are you how are
you reading this because it's um for me it's a very concerning development. the they are they are
pushing uh they're pushing to the limits. Um Russian government wanted to avoid a no
confrontation and I think we made a mistake. We should start to punish our enemies uh
full scale uh hopefully uh without unleashing an allout nuclear
war. uh but first of course I mean uh these crimes which would have they have
committed which have been unheard even in the uh worst days of the cold war um
should be uh punished uh and uh there are many ways and we are
planning them. uh uh first of course attacking I mean
uh serious uh targets uh uh on the territory of Europe profile
uh but let me remind you that we don't need an inch of Europe we have to be as
away from this Europe as we could uh um
be and uh but before that of course uh uh
probably we have to crush the uh the this
uh regime in Kiev and uh without uh uh
climbing the ladder of nuclear escalation uh that looks to be impossible or too expensive in terms of
uh spending our human uh material our best manner. Uh so my advice uh to my
competitors and uh fully supported uh is uh to
escalate uh first by uh striking with
conventional weapons uh uh symbolic and also important
targets like logistical centers or military bases. And then if they do not
stop uh we should go nuclear uh with
uh uh with a series of limited strikes. Uh before that we have to change our uh
doctrine which is outdated by 40 or 50 years. Um let me remind you that our
nuclear doctrine uh believes that there will be no victories in the nuclear war.
That's stupidity. there will be a victor could be a victor
and will be victors in a nuclear war. Uh I I I beg Almighty that it will happen
especially in Europe. uh uh uh I think that eventually we could even
produce an ultimat uh to our some in European neighbors
especially in north uh western part of of Europe uh so that they will uh
succumb surrender uh but before that we could uh probably
uh look for possibilities uh uh for limiting uh the
uh uh uh uh limited casualties
uh on the on the European side. But we are tired uh of spending our best men on
this junk which I'm sorry you are European and I'm European too. On this
junk which is called Europe. Uh in your article though on u yeah how
to win a world war, you did uh advocate for many policy changes uh for Russia to
essentially be to yeah change course and begin to restore the deterrent which uh
kind of slipped gradually over the past four years. Uh one of them was walk away from arms arms control as well. I was
wondering um uh how does that fit into the wider argument?
Wow. Now we have to change our policies on many directions. uh one is uh which I
have not yet mentioned uh is of course we have to change our uh doctrine of
using nuclear weapons and uh and uh for that and uh now we should uh uh put uh
there a dictum that if uh we uh we are
attacked by a group of countries which um have a preponderance over us in uh
economic and technological and uh demographic potential. We are not only
uh have a right, we have an obligation to use nuclear weapons. Uh the second uh
proposal which I have pushed forward is that the commander and chief
uh should uh delegate uh some of his um uh
uh Paula uh to the commander and chief of European theater
uh a general uh who would be supported uh with a
general with the officers and general with and
field experience and uh that he uh would be responsible
for a possibility when necessity uh to use all needs including nuclear
weapons against uh uh certain European countries uh which are
uh which has unleashed uh and uh continuing to unleash
uh uh an aggressive war against Russia. Uh I don't want the Europe to be
eliminated because I'm culturally a European but I am reminding my own
competitors uh that unlike many of our dreams Europe is the source
of all evil of all wars of all genocides
of all everything the worst in human history. uh we it is returning back uh
to its normal uh situation and I hope that we will be able to prevent that for
the sake of Europe for the sake of us and for the sake of Europeans people but
European Europeans have to understand uh that uh they are their their
countries are uh leading uh well the leaders
are leading them possibly. Yeah, that's uh one of the things I
usually have difficulty to understand is uh it seems like this escalation if we
follow a clear track over the four past four years. It's leading us very predictably into allout conflict with
Russia which would likely involve nuclear weapons. Yet there doesn't seem to be much um discussion or
or efforts to have any course correction. Indeed, it's demand around
consensus around one policy and everything else is dismissed essentially as uh uh taking the side of Russia which
if if one calls for some restraint or recognizing the security concerns of the
other side. Um, but I a colleague of mine, Jeffrey Sachs, he often puts a lot
of the blame on the Ukraine war, on Germany and the United Kingdom, in addition to the US, of course. Uh, you
you also tend to focus more on both Germany and the UK as being the leading,
I guess, aggressors against Russia. Uh, I was wondering if you can elaborate how you see this.
Um well this war or Russ has been unleashed by the United States.
Uh it has been unleashed you you will read series of my articles um since uh
two or three or four. Uh then it
um escalated. Uh then Europeans jumped into this uh
game. Uh now uh Germans uh the Brits of course uh
playing the usual game and that is uh that is re that is uh igniting war in
Europe to weaken uh the the continental uh
uh their continental ignite uh their uh continental neighbors and root them. uh
that has been their uh bad habit uh for several centuries.
Now unfortunately we uh in Russia uh have not yet understood that we are
turning back to the worst uh worst times in our history.
Uh and as for the Germany when as I've said a German councelor calls for the
strongest army uh in Europe uh that means that uh he calls for
elimination of eur of Germany totally I mean evaporation and that German burgers
and you know we have common German friends they should understand that.
Well, uh, you mentioned though that the spirit of Alaska is a joke and is dead,
but do you see any other possible pathways to a diplomatic solution? Cuz
uh, well, a year ago when the Trump administration returned, there was some
talk about uh, um, from the United States that we had to find a peace, they
recognized that expanding NATO up to Russia's border had been a mistake. They
argued then for a neutral Ukraine. They argued for make accepting territorial
concessions. Uh but again this seems to have gone uh nowhere. Indeed it appears
to to some extent walk this back. But is there still any pathway to a diplomatic
peace instead of this war? Of course let diplomacy
uh have a chance. Uh but uh from my point of view uh the
end game should be elimination of the Kean regime.
Uh uh uh first uh second um um
the restoration of uh our uh lands in south and east of Ukraine.
We don't want to take and we should not
want to take all over Ukraine because it is a bread basket. Uh but the main thing
now in addition to what had been proposed is to break the will of uh uh
European elites uh for aggression. Uh they have started an aggression. They
conducted an aggression and they should be punished for that. all eliminated by
their deep states hopefully or by uh their
people. When um uh chanc
of uh France uh calls for extending deterrence
uh French deterrence to other countries. Uh he's not only a blatant stupid liar.
uh he should be treated by uh the uh French as a traitor uh because that
means that he was to sacrifice or is really ready to sacrifice Paris or Leon
uh for uh uh uh for for the sake of uh
say uh Berlin or pos
uh uh these idiots uh which have lost the sense of history
uh the hands of uh I mean
uh simply senses uh should be either punished or eliminated better. Uh that
uh should be done uh not by Russian missiles not troops. We will not invade
uh Europe under no circumstances because there's nothing we need there.
But uh uh by uh uh European people uh who have
uh also lost uh the sense of of
self preservation. They are led by by mad ducks.
Uh uh hopefully Europeans will be able to throw them away, but I'm not trying
to intrude into internal affairs of European countries.
It's up to you to decide. Well, it it seems to me that one
possible avenue for escalation into a massive direct war would be uh possibly
unleashed in the Baltic Sea. that is over well the past months now we've seen blockades on Venezuela, Cuba, hijacking
of Iranian tankers and of course uh first it began with um referring to
Russia's civil fleet as a shadow fleet and and then uh yeah this efforts of
boarding them and now we see talks of naval alliance that is the UK plus nine
others essentially their task is to confront what they have now labeled Russia's
shadow fleet. Do you see this as a possibility? Well, in our internal discussion, I'm criticizing my
government uh for uh uh being so soft uh on the
acts of piracy. And if uh and uh if and when
uh the Dutch uh channels are or could be
closed, then it would simply be meant there will be no Denmark
anymore. But I love Denmark. It is a nice country and it is close uh to your
country and also uh to Sweden. Uh
uh we should uh uh be serious uh about returning uh these idiots back
to sensus. Well, yeah. Again, I'm hoping there will
be a way of uh restoring the terrence again as you said, god forbid, without
uh any nuclear exchange. Uh but well well nuclear exchange limited
nuclear exchange if it happens and it if it brings
these mad dogs to senses uh could be a saver of humanity. uh because overall
we are living in the multiple crisis world uh where uh the many underlying
uh notions of our uh life are crumbling.
Modern capitalism uh have exhausted or has been exhausting its life. Uh now we
see that uh this modern capitalism plus information revolution is undermining
the uh the sense of the humanizing
the human but it is very deep. Uh now we're going to the geopolitical level on
the geopolitical level that uh is being reflected uh by this remark
of the west which tries to uh restore its previously prevalent position in the
world which uh allowed it to rob the world. Uh but uh it will never happen.
Uh hopefully uh we could somewhere along the road arrange at a world of
multipolarity of mutual respect and uh a world which is much more
peaceful but we are in for 20 years of wars.
Just my last question is um how do you see Russia's future after this war? because uh you know since Peter the
great uh the past 300 years Russia modernized by looking west and indeed
Gorbachov had this greater European home idea as well but uh uh as you said with
the rise now of the east this the modernization is no longer
monopolized by the west and Russia has all these partners in the east as well uh how do you see Russia's future after
this first of all I'm I'm a of course a historian of uh Russia too. Uh Russia
has never been a European country. Uh originally it has been a uh a Eurasian
country uh from the beginning. Uh we took our external cultural roots not
from Europe. Uh we took them from Palestine uh from uh the brilliant Bzantine, from
the Muslim world and from the Buddhist world and their political uh uh and
external political uh core of our society and of our culture uh
came from the great Mongol Empire. Now
the western uh the European journey by uh Peter was useful because at that
juncture for the time being we were um and uh uh lacking technological
uh uh progress and technological knowledge. uh and uh our army was not that well
organized because Europeans were better much better organized. But the European
uh uh journey of Peter the Great
uh had to be stopped about at the end of the 20th century,
19th century. By that time we took everything uh positive which we could
have taken from Europe uh both military organization though in terms of artillery and military tactics we became
the first country in Europe by the end of the century. uh now we uh we engulfed
uh uh great European culture without Europe uh we wouldn't have had the skin
uh to muski Jakovski etc. uh but we should have stopped the journey at the
end of the 19th century. Uh after the end of 19th century we continued
unfortunately with the journey and uh got uh two world wars uh and communism
from there. uh we have to finish our European journey but most of it but
Hovind and Shakespeare are our writers and our composers and
they are very deep in our souls but Europe should be thrown away from our
history but kept as a very interesting and
useful element. I think yeah, as you mentioned dstvki there, I
was thinking you sounded a bit like Fodor Dosski because in the second half of the 19th century he was making a
similar point that uh the Russians had for too long attempted to mold themsel
into being like Europe and Europeans and they only gained the contempt of the
Europeans. So he essentially said the same the Russians should bar east. Yeah, I'm going further than dust.
Ski and though he's my favorite famous most favorite writer in Russia though of
course I love to push I'm saying that Europiles and
westernizing in Russia uh now after what has happened uh
I uh either in intellectually impotent or and
morally corrupt. This is an idiocy. You have to be an a moral idiot in
Russia to follow the European way.
Well, uh, thank you for taking the time. I appreciate your views and, uh,
absolutely. However, yes, Professor Den, you know that I have a lot of friends in Europe and I cherish
our friendships and I do not want uh to totally uh cut our ties uh with Europe
now with Europe decent people. Uh there are some still
they are brainwashed and um I hope that some of the markets
uh could be restored. uh but Europe for Russia is P say is something
we should be either I mean kept away
and we don't need an inch Europe the farther we get away from Europe now the
better it is for Russia for it future