Thank you for clarifying for people Mr. Gaussian I am bad about replying to these but I am marking them down so I can do it properly.
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China's installed nuclear power capacity hits 125mln kilowatts, ranking first globally – Global Times [2026-04-17]
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A photo of the No.2 Unit of Zhangzhou nuclear power plant, located at the world's largest Hualong-1 base in East China’s Fujian Province Photo：CMG
China's total installed nuclear power capacity has reached 125 million kilowatts(KW), ranking first globally, according to a CCTV News report, citing a blue book released by the China Nuclear Energy Association (CNEA) on Friday.
The report shows China currently operates 60 commercial nuclear reactors, with 36 under construction—representing over half of global nuclear construction. Another 16 units have been approved and await construction, according to CCTV News.
This year, China has broken ground on two new units and expects to bring seven units online, maintaining its position as the world's largest nuclear power builder, the report said.
The development of nuclear power constitutes an important component of China's nuclear energy sector. Under its medium- and long-term development objectives, China aims to build a strong nuclear power country by 2030, said the State Council Information Office, the Xinhua News Agency reported.
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Marlon Ochoa Leaves Honduras Amid Threats, Citing Electoral Interference – teleSUR [2026-04-17]
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Thanks! I'll give those 2 a read, welcome
Yeah I know he's a giga lib, but you guys know Russia isn't actually doing whatever the lib name for their new Judeo-Bolshevism, the Larouche people are a CIA project to fuck with Russia etcetera.
I can just repost it in my wiki comm & delete it sure. I figured on this instance nobody would see it that would take it at face value. This is a useful article for me to see when I hit "Ray McGovern" in the search bar.
EDIT: Actually, I think I will add your disclaimer as it is something I am completely in agreement with, but was too lazy to add due to making over 500 posts internet-wide tonight. 😳 My point is to post this to cite the social links. Robeson is detailed enough that he is useful once his wider geopolitical analysis is discarded. This is how I read most of the books I don't post 😅
@cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml: This is a russophobic and paranoid lib hit piece against anti-war activists trying to tie them into some grand conspiracy web of association with an irrelevant and long dead marginal figure in American politics. None of these people are comrades but they are also by far less damaging than your average Democrat or Republican imperialist warmonger Nazi sympathizer. This piece transparently attempts to smear any and all voices who are speaking out against the insanity and delusion of the mainstream pro-Ukraine propaganda narrative. It is also an old and extremely irrelevant article at this point because none of the fearmongering predictions about Gabbard or Patel playing some kind of anti-war role in the administration have played out. The author can rest easy knowing that peace in Ukraine has been successfully prevented and these dangerous anti-war views have been successfully neutralized.Anyway, if i were you i would delete this post since it is such an outdated piece of propaganda with little to no bearing on what is happening at present. It's not even interesting or funny enough to be in SRS.
That is the correct response for the most part, Mister Gaussian. The Hypernormalization "and then something strange happened" shit is useful to nobody. This is the exact kind of wishy-washy framework that was used to smear the Uhuru movement, which has also had issues with the PSL I will add. I do actually consider the RAtWM "activists" less odious than the DSA, let alone standard DC suits. I don't view their ideology as a serious political project, though, at least not as stated. It's an influence operation. However this alt media network is being used to influence semi-peripheral & peripheral countries that I care about a great deal, e.g. Iran & Russia (they are not being funded by Russia, they are frequently applying for jobs at RT though, & enough CIA agents have worked there already), minimal success with China. I'm posting this so that people are aware of these obscure connections, I'm pretty sure most of you thankfully forgot Jimmy Dore exists. The social links are difficult for me to remember so Robeson's page was worth bookmarking.
My one quibble is that these people are no more in the "anti-war" struggle than their Brian Beckerite counterparts, or fucking Amy Klobuchar marching with the CPUSA.
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Rage Against the Woke Machine with Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Insanity
Three years after the death of Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. (1922–2019), the infamously kooky American “small-time Hitler,” the Russian invasion of Ukraine breathed new life into his political cult, which even tried to spearhead a pro-Russian “anti-war” movement in the United States. Three years later, the LaRouchians have drifted toward irrelevance again, but with Trump back in the White House, Tulsi Gabbard installed as Director of National Intelligence, and Kash Patel running the FBI, they are hoping for another rebound. It could depend on a certain group of “VIPs.”
The Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), which consists of former US intelligence officers, formed in 2003 to call out the Bush-Cheney administration’s “Cooking Intelligence for War in Iraq.” VIPS wrote its first public memorandum to George W. Bush on February 5, 2003, the day that his Secretary of State Colin Powell made a warmongering presentation to the UN Security Council. One year and ten VIPS memos later, the group was said to have “produced some of the most credible, and critical, analyses of the Bush Administration’s handling of intelligence data in the run-up to the March 2003 invasion of Iraq.”
The main face of VIPS is co-founder Ray McGovern, a charismatic retired CIA officer and famous anti-war activist. He served 27 years in the Central Intelligence Agency, which he joined under John F. Kennedy. Whereas the LaRouchians fed information to various officials in the Reagan administration and its National Security Council, McGovern directly briefed Ronald Reagan and his national security advisors on a daily basis. In 2006, to protest the CIA’s role in the Bush-Cheney torture program, McGovern returned the Intelligence Commendation Medal that the CIA awarded him upon retiring from the Agency in 1990.
By the late 1990s, according to investigative journalist Chip Berlet, the LaRouchians “solicited contacts with a number of critics of U.S. foreign policy and intelligence agency practices, sometimes with surprising success.” McGovern only warmed up to the LaRouchians in recent years, after their tentacles were wrapped around his organization.
✍︎“2025: Nuclear Doom or New Paradigm with Ray McGovern and Helga Zepp-LaRouche”
The first VIPS member wooed by LaRouche appears to have been Mike Gravel (1930–2021), the former Senator and Democratic presidential candidate. Gravel got the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional record in 1971, and apparently joined the VIPS steering group in 2014. Gravel mentioned LaRouche while running for president in 2007. “We dismiss people,” the former Senator from Alaska said in an interview. “What’s his name, Lyndon LaRouche. I dismissed him, never gave him any credibility. Well I went to hear him speak at the urging of some friends. He does shoot himself in the foot but some of his ideas are great.”
In 2015, Gravel declared himself the newest member of LaRouche’s “cadre” at a conference held by the Schiller Institute, which is an important organization in the international LaRouchian network. “And this didn’t come to me naturally or quickly,” Gravel admitted to the audience. “I want to say that this lady up front, Anita Gallagher, has been beating on me for a decade, and calls me.” (Gallagher, a former associate of LaRouche, was sentenced to almost 40 years in prison for securities fraud in the early 1990s.) “And I got to tell you, I have been captured. I am now part of the team, and will work towards the goal.”
When Mike Gravel half-heartedly ran for president again, his teenaged campaign managers downplayed his association with the LaRouchians — luckily for them, Lyndon Larouche just died — but the Executive Intelligence Review renewed the call to “exonerate” its recently departed leader, now with an endorsement from a 2020 presidential candidate.
About a month before Gravel filed with the Federal Elections Commission, Virginia State Senator Richard Black, a relatively new VIPS member, announced that he would not be seeking re-election in 2020. He also mourned the loss of his constituent, Lyndon LaRouche, “one of the greatest minds in American history” and “by far the most adept political economist since Alexander Hamilton.” What’s more, “He got the Gestapo treatment from British Liberals in the [Washington] swamp, compelled to do so by their British masters.”
Colonel Richard Black, a far-right Republican and former career military officer, spoke at a 30th anniversary Schiller Institute conference in 2014, two years after his election to the Senate of Virginia. This might have been the first of many LaRouchian events for Black. His electoral district included the counties of Prince William and Loudoun, where Lyndon LaRouche lived since 1983.
The Washington Post has reported that Black is “known for a conservative grass-roots following and a history of inflammatory remarks about social issues.” That includes “not taking a position for or against marital rape” (2014), arguing that polygamy is “more natural” than homosexuality (2013), and alleging “there is a tendency to encourage homosexual activity” within public schools (2005). Another article said, “He has argued that abortion is a worse evil than slavery. And once, to demonstrate why libraries should block pornography on their computers, Black invited a TV reporter to film him using a library terminal to watch violent rape porn.”
Black’s controversial trips to Syria and meetings with Bashar al-Assad in 2016 and 2018 could have been arranged by the LaRouchians. Dennis King said they “have a special affinity for regimes that are tottering” — for example, Panama’s General Manuel Noriega, a discarded CIA asset that Lyndon LaRouche “praised … as a leader in the war on drugs.” As Black once told a group of politicians from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, “I’m not some left-wing pacifist.” In 2019, he became a United Nations representative of the Schiller Institute and the Executive Intelligence Review, pillars of the LaRouche Organization.
In 2020, the LaRouchians accused “Black Lives Matter” of fomenting a “color revolution” and military coup against Donald Trump. During the George Floyd protests, Colonel Black recalled that as the former head of the US Army’s Criminal Law Division at the Pentagon, “I played a key role in deploying the 7th Infantry Division to quell the 1992 LA riots.” Despite being a political nut-job with no apparent background in intelligence, Black joined VIPS in 2018.
With signatories listed in alphabetical order, Black’s name subsequently appeared at the top of VIPS memos, second only to NSA whistleblower William Binney, who also endorsed the call to “Exonerate LaRouche” by 2019. That being said, Binney and Black haven’t signed the latest VIPS memos from this and last year.
Jason Ross, a former science advisor to Lyndon LaRouche who dropped out of college to join his cult (and now is secretary-treasurer of the LaRouche Organization), conducted separate interviews with Ray McGovern and William Binney in the spring of 2017. Later that year, Donald Trump urged his CIA director Mike Pompeo to meet with Binney after he spearheaded a VIPS memo to Trump: “Was the ‘Russian Hack’ an Inside Job?” Former NSA whistleblowers Bill Binney and J. Kirk Wiebe joined VIPS by 2014, and both of them got involved with the LaRouchians.
A week after LaRouche died in February 2019, the Schiller Institute held its “first U.S.A. national conference in over fifteen years.” Special guests included Binney and a pair of Russian UN officials. A year later, on the eve of the COVID-19 pandemic hitting the United States, the Schiller Institute hosted “A Conversation with NSA Whistleblowers: Rescuing the Republic from the Surveillance State.” Helga Zepp-LaRouche said at the start of this event with Bill Binney and Kirk Wiebe, “I am appealing to all of you to join the fight for the exoneration of Lyndon LaRouche, and the implementation of his ideas.”
During the summer of 2020, the Schiller Institute hosted multiple webinars with Bill Binney to make his case that there was no Russian hack of the Democratic National Committee, because as VIPS contended to Trump, “data was leaked (not hacked) by a person with physical access to a DNC computer.” In July, after two such events in a week, this former Technical Director of the NSA participated in an online Schiller Institute conference about “Lyndon LaRouche’s Battle for Justice.”
This webinar started with an eight minute video of Lyndon LaRouche from the 1990s in which he mentions Ukrainian Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk, someone that LaRouche determined to be an innocent victim. “What we’re going to do today,” explained the moderator of the webinar, “is to give you a chance to hear from some of the people who went through … the persecution and prosecution of LaRouche in the 1980s, so that you might … get a better understanding of what has confronted the current President of the United States in the hoax called Russiagate.”
Some people have questioned why Bill Binney is doing this with the Schiller Institute and members of the Lyndon LaRouche Organization, and so on, and the answer is, because we do the work. Because the rest of you, who should be doing it, aren’t doing it.
Later on, panelists indicated support for Trump threatening military force against Black Lives Matter protesters, “to stop the insurrection by these Jacobin mobs … [that are] part of the effort to bring down the president, part of the coup,” according to convicted LaRouche associate Michael Billington. As his co-panelist Helga Zepp-LaRouche told it, George Soros funded Black Lives Matter, and “if you look at the method of using civil rights kooks, of using NGO kinds of organization, it is the method of the color revolution … to try to destroy the sovereign nation state.”
Before moving to these matters, Binney told the LaRouchians that “I have been feeding information” to the Trump administration’s Department of Justice investigation into the FBI’s probe of “Russian interference” in the 2016 election. Without naming names, Binney said that “hopefully they will put these [anti-Trump] criminals in jail, and I mean a lot more than have been discussed publicly. I mean, this is much deeper, and it goes much, much further into all these agencies, and the politicians involved, so they all need to go to jail, and there’s evidence to do that.” A month later, LaRouchePAC hosted a Q&A with Binney in which he again claimed that “I was feeding stuff in through different channels” to Attorney General Bill Barr and Special Counsel John Durham about “finding information inside the NSA databases and so on.”
Someone asked, “What does Bill know about QAnon and does he believe it to be real?” Binney didn’t really answer the question, but said “I’m not involved in QAnon.” At some point in the run up to the election, Roger Stone’s social media strategist, Jason Sullivan, put his “very good friend” Bill Binney in touch with Ron Watkins, who was suspected of being “Q” — the mysterious online figure behind the QAnon conspiracy movement. According to the 2021 HBO documentary Q: Into the Storm, “Working together with Bill Binney, Sullivan had developed a tool that gamed Twitter’s algorithms, allowing for anyone of his choosing to massively amplify their message.” The film included a scene of their pre-election call with Ron Watkins, in which Sullivan says,
This is not a sales call. This is just to … get an introduction and see if there is … anything we can do to help the cause of the Great Awakening. If Q is trying to utilize or optimize abilities on Twitter, we can make them better. We’ve got proprietary tools that can help recruit their armies and get everybody on the same sheet of music to where we’re all disseminating together, and our splash in the pond is getting bigger and bigger every time we drop something. Ron’s the chief admin that’s creating 8kun, and that’s [the website] where Q is dropping stuff, so it looks like these two are working together in some way, shape or form … I want to help the President of the United States get his word out.
In September 2020, LaRouchePAC streamed a webinar with VIPS members Binney, Black, and Wiebe titled, “Use the Truth to Stop the Insurrection Against the Presidency.” Later that month, Colonel Black did a LaRouchian-moderated Q&A about the “coup against Trump” with members of TheDonald.win, “an online forum favored by some of the most zealous and militant Trump supporters.” According to the journalist Justin Hendrix, “The Donald [.win] is notable because of the sheer amount of detailed coordination, planning, and logistics it hosted” for January 6.
A couple weeks before the election, Kirk Wiebe told a LaRouchePAC webinar with Bill Binney, “We’re in a civil war. It’s already started. Civil wars don’t typically begin with gunshots. They begin with vehement visceral disagreements about essential things.” In the aftermath of the election, LaRouchePAC hosted a “fireside chat” with Wiebe on “DEFEATING ELECTION PSY-OPS … The New American Revolution with Donald Trump or Fascism with Sleepy Joe.”
Two weeks later, Wiebe and Binney participated in another “fireside chat” (which LaRouche used to hold in his Virginia mansion): “Overturn U.S. Election Fraud to Defeat a Green, Global Bankers’ Dictatorship.” The Schiller Institute maintained in December that “Donald Trump could yet be inaugurated President in January 2021,” if only he gave Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Bill Binney and other whistleblowers the necessary platform “to reveal how the surveillance state has nearly mortally wounded the American electoral process.” They could expose that “British Intelligence, Not Russia Or China, Is The ‘Foreign Actor’.”
After the Capitol riot, nobody from Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity seemed eager to associate with the LaRouchians for a while. Helga-Zepp LaRouche even distanced her LaRouche Organization (Schiller Institute and Executive Intelligence Review) from the militantly pro-Trump “LaRouchePAC.” But then in June 2021, Ray McGovern spoke at a Schiller Institute event alongside Richard Black and the director of the Russian International Affairs Council, a think tank established by the Russian government.
Later that summer, McGovern and Binney took part in a LaRouchian conference to mark the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. In the meantime, a 77-year old retired Colonel angrily denounced the Loudoun County School Board at one of its meetings. “It’s absurd and immoral for teachers to call boys ‘girls,’ and girls, ‘boys.’ You’re making teachers lie to students, and even kids know that it’s wrong!”
Richard Black continued until his microphone cut out: “This Board has a dark history of suppressing free speech. They caught you with an enemies’ list to punish opponents of Critical Race Theory. You’re teaching children to hate others because of their skin color, and you’re forcing them to lie about other kids’ gender! I am disgusted by your bigotry and your depravity!” Black’s future Youtube co-host Jon Tigges got arrested that day, for which he later appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight to tell his side of the story.
As 2021 came to an end, the Executive Intelligence Review interviewed Graham E. Fuller, who spent 20 years in the CIA, and joined VIPS by 2015. According to the New York Times, Fuller wrote “a ‘think piece’ [that] circulated in the intelligence community in May 1985,” which was “instrumental in persuading some top-ranking Reagan Administration policy makers to begin considering covert contacts with Iranian leaders. It eventually led to the covert sale of United States weapons to Tehran in what became the Iran-Contra affair.” Chip Berlet wrote in 1999,
Many reporters in the mid 1980’s were contacted by LaRouchians who offered assistance and documents to help research the Iran-Contra story. This assistance was accompanied by their relentless peddling of typical LaRouchian distortions regarding vast conspiracies. … Over the past few years the LaRouchites have solicited contacts with a number of critics of U.S. foreign policy and intelligence agency practices, sometimes with surprising success. In many cases, it is the LaRouchian intelligence network that serves as a broker for information flowing between left-wing and right-wing groups. LaRouchians appear to have first penetrated the left in recent years when they began to trade information on covert action and CIA misconduct. The LaRouchians were early critics of the Oliver North network. In the early 1980’s, LaRouche intelligence operatives such as Jeffrey Steinberg maintained close ties to a faction in the National Security Council which opposed Oliver North’s activities. At the same time the LaRouchians quietly began providing information to mainstream and progressive reporters and researchers.
It’s easy to imagine that courting VIPS has long been a goal of 21st century LaRouchians. The Schiller Institute interviewed Ray McGovern again in early 2022. The day before Russia attacked Ukraine, Graham Fuller signed a LaRouchian petition to “Convoke an International Conference to Establish a New Security and Development Architecture for All Nations.”
✍︎Just yesterday the LaRouchians published another interview with Graham Fuller
Roughly 48 hours later, during a Youtube livestream on “The British vs. the American System: To Prevent War, Exonerate LaRouche,” former NSA whistleblower Kirk Wiebe discussed “a couple realities we have to deal with to achieve the vision that Lyndon LaRouche has put forth … a world with land bridges and sea lanes.” This VIPS member said, “That goal is noble, and it’s absolutely the right thing to do … We need to redefine the relationships along economic lines and fair trade as Lyndon LaRouche has put forth … That is the path, if done with integrity.”
That summer, the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD) published a list of “Speakers who promote narratives consonant with Russian propaganda.” A large number of them were LaRouchians, VIPS, or had participated in Schiller Institute events. The first five names on the list included Graham Fuller, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Richard Black, and Ray McGovern. The CCD also tried to blacklist US politicians (Rand Paul and Tulsi Gabbard), and one of the world’s most famous economists (Jeffrey Sachs), journalists (Glenn Greenwald), and political scientists (John Mearsheimer).
The LaRouchians were among the first to conflate the CCD list with Myrotvorets, the Ukrainian government-linked database of “enemies of Ukraine.” This is a criminal “blacklist website,” explains political scientist Ivan Katchanovski, but not Ukraine’s official “hit list,” as many have described Mytrotovrets and later the CCD. Thanks to an outfit of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, the LaRouche Organization made some new friends in 2022.
“Shut Down the Ukrainian Hit List Targeting Americans and International Voices of Opposition,” declared a LaRouche Organization livestream in September 2022. Special guests from the CCD “Hit List” included Dragana Trifkovic, the director of the Serbian Center for Geostrategic Studies, and two former US military analysts, David Pyne and Scott Ritter.
✍︎Dragana Trifkovic was once photographed with Alexey Milchakov (seen on the right with a Nazi flag), the leader of the Rusich Group, a small neo-Nazi unit that has fought for Russia in Ukraine over the past decade.
Pyne wrote some controversial articles about the war in Ukraine for the realist-conservative publication, The National Interest, and later he advised the far-right 2024 presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. Pyne participated in a few more LaRouchian livestreams that year, and said he was “grateful to EIR [Executive Intelligence Review] for coming up with a number of peace proposals.”
Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter joined VIPS in the 2000s. He became a prominent alternative media commentator on the war in Ukraine. Ritter’s theatrics and pro-Russian rhetoric escalated as the war dragged on. By early 2023 he flaunted meetings with Russian officials, and declared that “Ukraine is a rabid dog.” In early 2024 he visited Chechnya and addressed thousands of Ramzan Kadyrov’s fighters in broken Russian. Ritter appears to have only warmed up to the LaRouchians after they both appeared on the CCD “hit list.” Since then he’s done numerous interviews, webinars, and events with them.
Over two years ago, I wrote something about the hypocrisy of LaRouchians trying to lead an anti-war movement against US involvement in Ukraine. That was before their efforts largely culminated in a bizarre “Rage Against the War Machine” (RATWM) rally that took place in Washington around the one year anniversary of Vladimir Putin declaring his “special military operation.”
One of the main speakers at that event, which promoted an alliance of the Left and Right, turned out to be the next Director of National Intelligence. The organizers later tried and failed to have another rally against the “Deep State,” but now the LaRouchians are counting on Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel to drain the swamp.
✍︎Tulsi Gabbard at the RATWM rally (with a LaRouche banner and Russian flag behind her)
Jose Vega, a 2024 LaRouchian Congressional candidate in New York City, was one of the speakers at the 2023 RATWM rally. In 2020, he moderated TheDonald.win Q&A with Richard Black about the “coup against Trump.” Two years later, when Vega and a friend heckled Alexander Ocasio-Cortez as a “war hawk” who supports Nazis in Ukraine, he said “Tulsi Gabbard has shown guts where you’ve shown cowardice.”
Gabbard had just announced her departure from the Democratic party. She soon responded to this viral clip, and “the fact that she [AOC] was so dismissive of them,” in a Fox News interview. “One of the main reasons why I left this Democratic party of today is because they have become the party of war hawks,” Tulsi Gabbard explained. “You hear these young men saying ‘nothing else matters if we are all destroyed’ in a nuclear war…” Gabbard also appeared on that year’s Ukrainian CCD list (as well as Myrotvorets), probably for speaking about US “biolabs” in Ukraine, a “corrupt autocracy” in Kyiv, and “Russia’s legitimate security concerns.”
Nick Brana, the chairman of the practically non-existent “People’s Party,” started to associate with the Schiller Institute in late 2022, around the time that he began to organize the RATWM coalition with Libertarians, LaRouchians, and others. He continued to join LaRouchian webinars after the February 2023 rally.
Brana introduced Jose Vega at the RATWM event and announced that Vega would be training rally-goers how to stage their own “interventions,” which is what the LaRouchians have called their tactic of heckling politicians and other famous people to make viral video content. Brana, the former National Political Outreach Coordinator for the 2016 Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, did an “intervention” on his old boss just before the 2022 midterm elections: “You were supposed to start a political revolution, instead you’re sending money to Nazis in Ukraine. You’re starting a Third World War, Bernie!”
People’s Party champion Jimmy Dore, a comedian and online political commentator, was another speaker at the RATWM event. Since then, Dore and others from the “Jimmy Dore Show” have embraced the LaRouchians, and Jose Vega in particular. Just recently, a year after Vega announced his 2024 Congressional run on their Youtube show, Dore’s sidekick (Kurt Metzger) recommended reading a book by Lyndon LaRouche: “It turns out that guy knew a lot of stuff. … Remember when we had a LaRoucher on and … I thought it was some crazy guy? They call him a cultist — no it isn’t! That guy knows a lot of history.” At that point Jimmy Dore chimed in, all of the “LaRouchies” that he knows are great.
Jackson Hinkle, another divisive RATWM speaker and provocative online political figure, started to flirt with the LaRouche cult in 2022. They appear to have gone their separate ways since his circle of “MAGA Communists” got more serious about establishing their own cult under the guise of the “American Community Party.” Hinkle, it just so happens, joined a surf session with then-presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard in 2019. The following year, Gabbard was assigned to the US Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command.
✍︎Jackson Hinkle reacting to a LaRouche clip, sharing a LaRouche book on Twitter, and attending a Schiller Institute conference dedicated to defeating “Green Fascism” (perhaps all in October 2022)
More serious speakers at the RATWM rally were ultimately self-sabotaged by LaRouchian banners and their fellow travelers waving Russian flags behind them. The latter came from another cult-like group that sponsored the event. Caleb Maupin, the sex scandal-plagued leader of the so-called “Center for Political Innovation (CPI),” might just see himself as Lyndon LaRouche’s spiritual successor. Sex scandal-plagued VIPS member Scott Ritter, who pulled out of the RATWM rally organized by the sex scandal-plagued Nick Brana, subsequently spoke at CPI conferences in DC, and Ritter has repeatedly participated in LaRouchian events since then.
Ray McGovern didn’t speak at the RATWM rally, but Jose Vega borrowed a line from McGovern that he had just used at a Schiller Institute webinar: “Know Where You Stand, and Stand There.” About 48 hours later, McGovern addressed an informal meeting of the UN Security Council that the Russians organized to highlight Seymour Hersh’s bombshell reporting about the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines. The next day, McGovern joined the Schiller Institute to talk more about this. Later that spring, the LaRouche Organization conducted an interview with McGovern on “The Art of Intervention,” although the VIPS founder credited Jose Vega with coining this term. Ray McGovern, a “dear friend” according to Vega, ended up supporting his 2024 Congressional campaign.
✍︎Jose Vega and Ray McGovern, wearing a “Vega for Congress” hat on the right
Over a year later, Jose Vega’s Congressional bid culminated in an event that he described as the world’s first “hybrid classical concert/political rally.” Between various musical performances, speeches were made by Scott Ritter, Jimmy Dore, and longtime associates of Lyndon LaRouche. Angela McArdle, a Libertarian Party leader from the far-right Mises Caucus, who co-organized the RATWM rally with Nick Brana and also kept in touch with the LaRouchians, remotely addressed the audience. The event’s slogan was “Build a Peace Chorus Against the Ghouls of War.”
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Back in 2022, Helga Zepp-LaRouche referred to Tulsi Gabbard as one of the leaders of a new anti-war movement in the United States. Last month, the LaRouche Organization held a small rally in Washington to demand, “Confirm Gabbard and Patel to Stop Wars and Lies.” For New Year’s Eve, the LaRouchians livestreamed a conversation between Helga Zepp-LaRouche and Ray McGovern, titled “2025: Nuclear Doom or New Paradigm.” More recently, the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity published a memo to the new Director of National Intelligence, inviting her “to consider its advice” — but if certain VIPS get in bed with the second Trump administration, the LaRouchians might not be far behind.
NEXT UP: Another VIPS member, Hunter Biden’s laptop, and more…
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EXCLUSIVE: How Palantir found itself used in the wake of the Christchurch massacre – Exit from Affco [2026-04-15]
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From left to right: Former New Zealand PM John Key, Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel, and Xero founder Sir Rod Drury
New Zealand Police used software from controversial tech firm Palantir as part of their response to the March 2019 Christchurch massacre, Exit From Affco can reveal.
Beginning shortly after the massacre and ending on December 15, 2019, the Police’s High Tech Crime Group “had access to a Palantir platform” to “analyse data including social media returns”, according to information the Police released in response to an Official Information Act (OIA) request from Exit From Affco.
The Police were given a trial of the Palantir software shortly after the Christchurch massacre, but could not reach a long-term agreement with the software vendor as the Police were unable to afford Palantir’s asking price for the product, a source with knowledge of the matter told Exit From Affco.
In 2023, the Police also considered Palantir’s Gotham platform alongside other providers for an intelligence and data search system but cancelled the project due to supposed ICT workload concerns, according to Radio New Zealand.
Founded in 2003, Palantir provides software which specialises collating and analysing data to governments and private companies alike.
The company’s two main offerings are Palantir Gotham, designed for defence and intelligence purposes, and Palantir Foundry, used for civil government and commercial uses, but they often create custom software for clients for more specific use cases, especially the US government.
The company has long been controversial for its services and clients, with critics especially concerned about surveillance, data collection, data sovereignty, and where that all that information they handle ends up going.
Social media and the usage of it by Christchurch attacker Brenton Tarrant prior to the shooting has been a key issue in subsequent investigations into the massacre, and the Police’s use of Palantir to analyse social media content could have been an attempt at course correcting after prior law enforcement and intelligence failures.
The final report of New Zealand’s royal commission (a type of government inquiry in Commonwealth monarchies) into the massacre wrote that the survivors and victims’ relatives felt that “if Public sector agencies had monitored social media, this may have alerted them to the potential threat” and that they “did not understand why [Tarrant]’s social media was not monitored.”
Prior to the massacre, Tarrant was in numerous Facebook groups affiliated with Australia’s far-right movement, and was Facebook friends with several influential Australian far-right figures.
An employee of the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (SIS) – New Zealand’s domestic security agency – claimed to have seen Facebook posts made by Tarrant in an internal report that was made prior to the massacre, but did not believe they warranted escalating the matter, according to the Arotake review – the SIS’ own investigation into its actions.
The royal commission’s report identified the employee as having belonged to the SIS’ Combined Threat Assessment Group branch – which is responsible for assessing threats and preparing reports for decision makers – and said the employee claimed to have seen the posts in 2018.
The inquiry accused the SIS employee’s memory of being “awry” and claimed to have been satisfied that “the employee could not have seen these posts before 15 March 2019”, the date of the massacre, because the SIS claimed to have not found any report which included Tarrant’s Facebook posts.
In the 48 hours prior to the shooting, Tarrant posted a flood of anti-immigration and fascist content to his social media pages. He also posted photos of firearms, magazines and tactical gear that had Nazi imagery, references, and slogans drawn on them, alongside the names of people Tarrant would later claim he wanted to avenge.
The Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) – New Zealand’s largest intelligence agency – told the inquiry that social media accounts “posting weaponry” were not tracked as “[p]osting weaponry … is not an illegal activity”.
The inquiry did not address the fact that Tarrant’s weaponry had fascist references on it, or that he posted it alongside a plethora of violent right-wing content.
A 2025 University of Auckland study found that Tarrant had likely publicly posted on the notoriously far-right Politically Incorrect (/pol/) section of 4chan since at least 2015 about his support for and intent to carry out far-right attacks, a community known to have hosted previous mass shooters.
In March 2018, a year before the massacre, a user very likely to be Tarrant joined a thread about the South Pacific.
When discussion conversation turned to Muslims in New Zealand, the user joined in on expressing hatred, identifying himself as a Dunedin resident at the same time Tarrant was living there. His country, New Zealand, was visible through a flag next to the post ID. After someone egged him on to do something about it, the user posted “[D]on’t worry lad, I have a plan to stop it. Just hold on.”
In another August 2018 thread, a user likely to be Tarrant joined discussions about the locations of mosques in New Zealand.
“Tarrant wrote angrily about mosques and refugees in the South Island, including ‘here in Dunedin.’ He wrote: ‘F***** dunedin and christchurch both have mosques, christchurch has two of them for fucks sake.’ And again: ‘Want to hear some crazy shit? Ashburton now has a mosque, they converted a church.’ Four of the posters, including Tarrant, called for violence against the mosques. One commented that a particular mosque would be easy to firebomb. When another posted an image of a matchbox, Tarrant replied with only “Soon.” Seven months later, Tarrant attacked two mosques in Christchurch”.
The findings raise “serious questions, not only about why this posting was not detected, but also why it has not been discovered in the five years since the attacks”, the study’s authors wrote in a 2025 article for The Conversation.
Tarrant publicly stating his intention to attack significantly contradicts the royal commission’s remark that it would be “unlikely that the individual [Brenton Tarrant] would have wished to do anything that might attract the attention of international intelligence and security agencies.”
The royal commission’s belief that Tarrant desired to act covertly was used to justify not investigating whether Brenton Tarrant met with Martin Sellner – a far-right Austrian activist known for his advocacy for remigration (a euphemism for mass deportations) – after Tarrant donated approximately $2,300 Australian dollars to him in January 2018 and they subsequently discussed the possibility of meeting up in Austria over email.
Shortly after the massacre in March 2019, Austrian police raided Sellner’s residence over his ties to Tarrant. Sellner destroyed copies of his communications with Tarrant 40 minutes prior to the raid, suggesting that he had foreknowledge of an investigation into him. The only correspondence Austria’s authorities were able to recover came from screenshots that Sellner himself intentionally chose to preserve.
In late 2018 – just months before the massacre, Tarrant spent 9 days in Austria.
According to the Lone Actor podcast, an Austrian intelligence report has it that a rental car Tarrant used during his trip travelled about 2,000km during the trip.
The royal commission’s final report dismissed all this evidence, and made no mention of Tarrant’s extraordinary usage of a rental car during his Austrian excursion. Instead, the inquiry took him at his word.
Tarrant told the royal commission “that he did not meet Martin Sellner” and “had not tried to do so” during the late 2018 visit, according to the report.
“We [the inquiry’s commissioners] are inclined to accept this denial. There is no evidence to suggest they [Tarrant and Sellner] did meet”, the inquiry said, seeming all too eager dismiss the claims, which risked undermining the inquiry’s finding that Tarrant was a “lone actor”.
Since the massacre, Sellner has gained prominence and influence among Europe’s right-wing, and has popularised remigration.
In November 2023, he hosted a secret countryside conference with top brass of Germany’s right-wing CDU and AfD parties – some of whom were sitting members of parliament at the time – to plan how mass deportations could be implemented in Germany. Following the conference, AfD’s co-leader, Alice Weidel, publicly committed to implementing remigration.
The Police’s brief flirtations with Palantir does not mark the first time that New Zealand’s public sector has jumped into bed with the firm.
In fact, the government’s relationship with Palantir began when the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) started a pilot programme in 2012, including acquiring licenses for Palantir technology and the training of 100 NZDF personnel, around the same time Palantir opened a dedicated Wellington office.
The programme soon expanded to an “ongoing contractual relationship”, including the “acquisition of additional hardware and annual Palantir licences”, the NZDF said in response to an OIA request from Exit From Affco. The NZDF also released the manual for Palantir’s Gotham software to Exit From Affco.
By 2018, the NZDF was spending over $1.8 million NZD a year on its contracts with Palantir, and had spent $7.2 million NZD between 2012 and 2018, according to a report in the New Zealand Herald.
The SIS and GCSB are also known to use Palantir software, in a relationship which the New Zealand Herald says also dates back to 2012.
In March 2020, Palantir approached and met with the Ministry of Health and Privacy Commissioner, offering to “rapidly set up COVID-19 data-crunching capabilities” as it had done in Italy and the UK at free or little cost. The Ministry of Health then sat on the offer for a month, before announcing it had no plans to retain Palantir’s services.
Private sector health firms in New Zealand have also begun to make use of Palantir’s offerings, a source has claimed to Exit From Affco.
An OIA request from academic Marco de Jong revealed that then-defence and intelligence minister Judith Collins met with the head of Palantir’s international operations during her February 2026 visit to the Munich Security Conference.
The briefing was mostly redacted, but it saw her “acknowledge the importance of an ongoing effective partnership” and ask whether there were any “opportunities of interest for New Zealand in new technologies and emerging capabilities in this sector”.
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Chris Penk, who replaced Collins in her ministerial roles, told RNZ that “the NZDF has no existing plans to use Palantir in the emerging technologies space”, “the NZDF uses Palantir as an analytics platform to aid with planning”, and that “the Government’s ongoing partnership with Palantir is led by the GCSB.”
However, the NZDF over recent years has been helping test and develop the US military’s new Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control (CJADC2) system, a network to link together all sensors and data from the US military and its allies to enable more battlefield data collection, analysis, and interoperability. Palantir helped develop the Maven Smart System platform alongside the US military as their interface for this command and control network.
In May 2024, as revealed by documents found in a Salvation Army op-shop and given to Nicky Hager, NZDF staff attended a secret “Five Eyes community Combined Digital Leaders Forum” in the United Kingdom to discuss the new “Five Eyes C5 Campaign Plan” and how the five member countries would integrate their military command and control systems. This would include sending data, intelligence and information to other partners and be analysed in a “federated [Five Eyes] data fabric”, which Hager describes as “a worldwide system where all intelligence and information from the five partners is shared and woven together to support the dominant partner”.
New Zealand naval officers had meetings with other Five Eyes partners in September last year ahead of RIMPAC 2026, the US Navy’s biennial naval exercise in Hawai’i (and the largest worldwide). These meetings were to discuss Project Overmatch, the US Navy’s initiative for integrating the CJADC2 system, and testing it during exercises at this year’s RIMPAC. The NZDF announced earlier this month it would be sending 50 personnel to the Project Convergence Capstone 6 event later this year in Arizona, where the US Army doing their annual testing of their implementation of CJADC2 by putting soldiers alongside aerial and ground drones.
New Zealand’s relationship with Palantir started shortly after one of its co-founders, Peter Thiel, was naturalised in 2011, while meeting none of the statutory requirements, and having only spent 12 days in the country, through an unusual and informal understanding with the John Key government: that Thiel would invest heavily in New Zealand’s technology sector.
Thiel didn’t hold up his end of the bargain. Valar Ventures, the venture capital firm Thiel set up in 2010 specifically for his New Zealand ambitions, ceased making investments in New Zealand shortly after Thiel had received his citizenship. By 2017, Valar had almost completely divested from New Zealand.
Thiel was able to keep his citizenship secret for almost five and a half years, until the New Zealand Herald revealed it in January 2017.
Valar Ventures was recently revealed to have received $40 million in investment from late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2015.
Sir Rod Drury, founder of fintech firm Xero, became one of Thiel’s surrogates in New Zealand after the billionaire made an investment into both Xero and Pacific Fibre – a failed venture Sir Drury co-founded to build an undersea fibre optic cable between the United States, New Zealand, and Australia.
Pacific Fibre had no less than $5.5 million in investment from Valar, and documents on Thiel’s citizenship released by New Zealand’s Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) show that his VC firm’s holding in the company had significant weight on the decision to grant him citizenship.
Sir Drury, who was described by the New Zealand Herald as “the biggest winner of Thiel’s brush with New Zealand”, was one of Thiel’s character references, and wrote to New Zealand’s Department of Internal Affairs in support of Thiel’s citizenship application.
Sam Morgan, co-founder of Pacific Fibre and then a director of Xero, also wrote to the DIA in 2011 in support of Thiel’s citizenship application.
In 2013, whilst Thiel’s citizenship was still a secret, then-Green Party co-leader Russel Norman issued a press release questioning whether the Key government was working with Palantir to spy on New Zealanders after it was revealed Key had met with Thiel multiple times, the company had opened a Wellington office, and had posted a job listing for an analyst to be embedded inside the New Zealand government.
After Norman posted a tweet writing “When crony govt meets surveillance state - John Key appoints Peter Thiel’s Palantir to spy on NZers”, Drury quoted the post and wrote “Don’t be wankers”. Sir Drury and Norman then got into a heated Twitter dispute, with Sir Drury writing that the Greens were “ruining relationships and/by insinuating cronyism is vandalism”.
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Don't be wankers @RusselNorman: When crony govt meets surveillance state - John Key appoints Peter Thiel's Palantir to spy on NZers.
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In later comments to Stuff, Sir Drury said Thiel was “an incredible friend of New Zealand” and was annoyed at the collateral damage Norman’s comments had caused.
In 2021, Sir Drury applied for a resource consent to build ‘Te Wharehaunui’, a bunker-like compound on his 29ha section of Queenstown to host meetings for “government leaders and global technology innovation company executives”.
The application said the meeting house would bring “very influential people” to Queenstown who would hopefully invest in the region. The region has become a popular location for property among the international elite, including Peter Thiel, who has been attempting to build a luxury lodge overlooking Lake Wānaka despite legal challenges.
Sir Drury has allowed his Queenstown property to be used for diplomatic meetings, including Australian PM Albanese’s visit last year. A source in New Zealand’s public service claimed to Exit From Affco that Sir Drury’s property has also been used to host meetings for the Five Eyes intelligence alliance.
The source alleges that to accommodate these meetings, a sensitive compartmented information facility was built on the property, making it suitable to discuss and handle secret or classified information.
New Zealand’s outgoing defence and intelligence minister Judith Collins denied the claims in response to both a request for comment and OIA request from Exit From Affco.
_“_Minister Collins rejects both assertions”, Collins’ press secretary said.
In September 2022, top officials from all Five Eyes partners flew into Queenstown for a secret meeting, with attendees suspected to have been hosted at the Millbrook Resort near Arrowtown, just a 10-minute drive from Drury’s property.
Drury’s alleged relationship with the Five Eyes, and with Thiel – who is closely tied to the alliance himself – may warrant taking another look at their failed effort to build an undersea fibre optic cable connected to New Zealand.
Pacific Fibre’s cable was being planned around the same time the GCSB – in partnership with America’s National Security Agency (NSA) – was starting up the Speargun mass surveillance program. Revealed by leaks from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the program saw covert surveillance of New Zealand’s internet traffic and metadata, collected by bugging the Southern Cross Cable Network in the North Island, which at the time was the only undersea fibre optic cable connecting New Zealand to North America, as well as handling the vast majority of traffic routed through Australia, thus seeing most of the country’s international internet traffic.
On Wednesday – just a month after he received the New Zealander of the Year Award – Sir Drury was publicly accused of inappropriate behaviour during his time as CEO of Xero by a former employee, which resulted in an internal misconduct investigation being launched in December 2017.
Drury abruptly stepped down as from his CEO role four months later.
On Wednesday, Xero said that it began an internal review of its handling of the allegations.
The Central Intelligence Agency’s investment firm, In-Q-Tel, bootstrapped Palantir’s founding in 2003 with a $2 million investment, and the US government has subsequently become their biggest customer. Palantir has contracts with the US intelligence agencies, the Pentagon, law enforcement agencies, and police departments across the United States.
The Maven Smart System platform for the US military’s CJADC2 system, co-developed by Palantir and the Pentagon, is currently being used for data analysis and target selection in the US-Israeli war on Iran according to an early February report in the Washington Post. Some US lawmakers believe Maven may have chosen to target a girl’s primary school in the country’s invasion of Iran at the beginning of February, which killed at least 175 civilians, most of whom were young schoolgirls.
Palantir’s contracts with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have long been controversial since they began in 2014, but their collaboration increased heavily under the first and second Trump administration. To assist with Trump’s mass deportation program, Palantir was contracted in 2025 to develop ImmigrationOS, a platform which uses data collection and AI analysis to find, track and help ICE deport suspected noncitizens.
Palantir software has been used extensively by the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) in the Gaza genocide and their wars throughout the region, with CEO Alex Karp saying in February 2024 he was “exceedingly proud that after Oct. 7, within weeks, we are on the ground and we are involved in operationally crucial operations in Israel.” Palantir has been repeatedly accused of complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity due to the IDF’s actions in Gaza. When confronted with these accusations at a Cambridge Union event, Peter Thiel responded that his “bias is to defer to Israel”.
Palantir is eager to onboard governments and institutions to their services, often offering free or discounted rates and being proactive in approaching potential clients.
Palantir has often been criticised for enabling aggressive data collection and surveillance by providing these services to clients and allowing them to connect vast sources of data much more easily. There have also been concerns raised about data sovereignty, where data is processed or stored, and whether any data is shared elsewhere by Palantir. In 2024, the Swiss government decided to abandon their plans to work with Palantir after officials couldn’t guarantee there was data sovereignty, writing in a report that “there is a possibility that sensitive data could be accessed by the US government and intelligence services.”
Palantir has also recently begun rapidly expanding its relationship with the United Kingdom. Palantir’s London based European branch, chaired by Louis Mosley – the grandson of Nazi collaborator and British Union of Fascists leader Sir Oswald Mosley, has signed numerous contracts over the past decade with England’s National Health Service (NHS), the Britain’s Ministry of Defence, and the Met Police.
Tarrant himself was a fan of Sir Mosley, having posted links to his works prior to the massacre, and even gifted one of Sir Mosley’s books – Fascism: 100 Questions Asked – to his sister’s mixed race partner.
Ironically, the Police sought solutions made in part by Sir Mosley’s grandchild in the wake of the massacre.
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Great stuff, I'll add (or summarize other points in thread) the simplified version I use to approach PSL type people:
If US workers engage purely in wage struggle & seeking rent controls, they are just speeding up their entry into an asset market that stores global exploitation. This asset market is unstable & these concessions cannot last. Only seizing key areas of production will ensure US workers can participate in a global struggle
Settlers is genuinely bad. Just read dependency theory e.g. Samir Amin. I know that sounds a bit flippant since he wrote so much, but if you just go and read his low-pagecount books, he made them extremely accessible. Then if you keep reading his books you find everything which was stated in the accessible ones is rigorously proven.
Unsatisfied with my 40 year old multipolarity twink, I've gone a lil ancient with it
Maoist Tim gets more like 16-37 likes but has a cadre of insane reply guys in the dozens, ready to fight 24/7
Also, you're clearly not basing your algorithm around Gabriel Rockhill, Adnan Husain, etcetera. What do you have to say for yourself?
People should be reading all of these 💯
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Message from the Russian Ministry of Defense: "Units of the 'East' Group continued their advance into the depth of the enemy's defense. They inflicted defeat on formations of two mechanized brigades, one air assault brigade, one assault brigade, and two assault regiments of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Vozdvizhevka, Kopani, Obshchee, Novoselovka, Lyubitskoe in Zaporozhye Oblast,
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The enemy lost over 315 servicemen, five armored fighting vehicles, and ten vehicles. Units of the 'Dnepr' group of forces inflicted defeat on the personnel and equipment of two mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Kushgum, Grigorovka, Zaporozhets, and Orekhov in Zaporozhye Oblast and the city of Kherson (to the West)."
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In recent weeks, the Russian Ministry of Defense has been reporting mainly on strikes against enemy concentration areas and on the fact that Russian units "have improved their positions along the forward edge." Let us try to understand what this means, using the example of one of the most active directions—the Zaporozhye direction and its junction with the Dnepropetrovsk direction.
Operating in these directions are the Russian army groups "East" and "Dnepr." By the end of the autumn-winter campaign on the eastern sector of the Zaporozhye direction, its junction with the southern sector of the Dnepropetrovsk direction, as well as on the central sector (Kushgum - Orekhov) of the Zaporozhye direction, the Russian Armed Forces took control of large areas of territory and many settlements. However, there is no continuous line of positions; the line is built between strongholds and defense areas that have their own zones of responsibility and sectors of fire impact on the enemy. In the second echelon, control is exercised by establishing checkpoints and introducing filling units into sectors: second echelons of formations, rear units and subunits, Rosgvardia units, military police units, large-caliber artillery, and repair bases. All of this must be positioned, protected, camouflaged, connected to supply lines for all types of provisions and communications, and have its own specific tasks and goals within the framework of the overall concept of the high command.
Coordination is organized among this diverse array of branches, arms of service, and special forces. Moreover, large concentrations of personnel and equipment are not permitted (everything is dispersed), as reconnaissance of all types (on both sides) easily detects these concentrations and immediately strikes them with all means of fire destruction.
Breakthrough actions and the concentration of necessary forces and means are achieved by individual groups moving out from different points, arriving within a strictly limited time frame into a designated area at initial positions from which offensive operations begin. Or each group (unit) moves out from its own area directly onto the main axis with a clearly defined task in terms of time and location. The personnel, while carrying out their task, may not even see or understand the overall concept of their senior commander, understanding only that their neighbors to the right and left are also gnawing at the enemy. This type of action requires a high quality of troop command, reconnaissance, communications, and coordination—both between neighboring units (groups) and between the various branches and arms of service.
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East Group Area of Responsibility; The two solid blue lines with blue dashes between them represent the Anti-Tank ditch in front of Orekhov. The single solid blue line with blue dashes running parallel to it represents the Pokrovskoe-Gulyaipole defense line. The blue arches running along a solid blue line represent the Novonikolaevka to Orekhov defense line. Where you see blue arches facing alternating directions, that represents blocking positions of the AFU. The yellow line with red dots is the line of combat contact as of February 3rd, 2026.
The pause that occurs during the consolidation of territories must be used actively: understanding that the enemy has been pushed back to a more advantageous position in an already prepared and supported operational space, and that any pause on our part will be used by him to achieve his own goals and seize the initiative. During these periods, the high command may allow the enemy to demonstrate controlled initiative in order to uncover his intentions, determine his concentration areas through his activity and the direction of his transport movements, and identify the direction of his counterattacks.
In the directions we are examining, the enemy has shown activity and launched large-scale counterattacks on the following axes: Dobropasovo - Pokrovskoe - Boykovo (southeastern sector of the Dnepropetrovsk direction),
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Vozdvizhevka - Verkhnyaya Tersa - Kopani (center of the eastern sector of the Zaporozhye direction),
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This configuration of Ukrainian counterattacks was anticipated and appears natural:
a) counterattacks against the right flank of the "East" Group, along the Gaichur River, with the task of recapturing lost elements of the Gaichur defensive line and restoring it;
b) counterattacks into the bases of the line of contact salient in the area of the settlement of Rizdvyanka, on the Boykovo - Vozdvizhevka line and the settlement of Gorkoe, with the same goal;
c) counterattacks from the line along the Konka River and the H-08 front-line supply route (Kamyshevakha - Grigorovka), with the task of eliminating the Zaporozhnoe - Rechnoe salient and reaching the Novoyakovlevka - Primorskoe line, in order to eliminate the threat of a deep envelopment by the Russian Armed Forces of the Orekhov sector along the Novoyakovlevka - Yurkovka axis.
Based on this, the Russian Armed Forces, in these directions and sectors, are exhausting the counterattacking Ukrainian units in active defense, inflicting fire damage on their advancing reserves and groups maneuvering along the line of contact, as well as on the deployment areas of their second echelons (Lyubitskoe, Obshchee, Kushgum). In this way, the enemy's tactical advantage (a pre-prepared operational space) is being eliminated, and conditions are being prepared for his further defeat.
During these operations, Russian forward units may withdraw from their positions and reoccupy them, lure the enemy into fire pockets and into areas of concentrated fire, maneuver along the line of contact, counterattack, and so on.
This is active defense. Therefore, we regard the "everything is lost — everything is stolen" laments of certain "experts" with a calm and steady gaze.
Victory will be ours!
idk lady everything on this app seems fake. if I'm not back for a while pls I'm begging you get on rednote they'll be so nice to you!! they're so normal!
Fair! We could all hold ourselves to a higher standard of discussion. On that note I will, for at least two weeks, stop experimenting on your minds. Maybe when I come back I won't want so much chaos
I get where you are coming from, but just imagine what Kamala's tweet would look like while announcing exactly the same intent, talking about the voices of Iranian protesters, women, and everything, stuff Trump says too mumbling abt the Mullahs, but consider the possibilities with a more refined Obama-like gleam to it. I can't say I prefer the savagery of this white Obama but the Polymarket aura around him will make everything even worse in the best way
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Yes! I have just made a note to post a public Rednote directory, as the site is hard to share. (The post hyperlinks seem to be temporary, profiles are okay.) Will ping you by Monday. 🤓