Topic 1918
The western sanctions regime against Russia is quietly crumbling as American and German business delegations arrive at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum for the first time since the start of the conflict, while Alexander Mercouris and The Duran expose Zelensky’s November peace deadline as a calculated gambit designed not to end the war but to drag the United States back into it through a Democratic Congress and a renewed bonecrushing sanctions push. With Konstantinovka on the verge of falling, Ukrainian supply lines into Orikhiv under daily drone attack, the Iran ceasefire drifting toward open conflict, and the US quietly signaling nuclear deployments in Europe to mask the collapse of its conventional deterrent, the full strategic picture is far darker than western media is reporting. Is the collective West finally beginning to understand that its strategy in Ukraine has failed, and what happens when that realization can no longer be avoided?
00:00:00 Introduction: Ukraine targets St Petersburg forum with drones
00:02:03 Why the drone strikes on Russian industry are mostly ineffective
00:04:12 Russian aerospace command reshuffle signals intensified offensive
00:07:12 Russia will continue strikes on Kiev and decision making centers
00:09:49 Zelensky orders Budanov: end the war by November
00:13:13 Zelensky’s real objective: drawing the US back into the conflict
00:15:26 Blumenthal, Budanov and the bonecrushing sanctions bill
00:18:27 US midterms and the calculus of Democratic support for Ukraine
00:21:09 Why American enthusiasm for Ukraine has drained away
00:23:34 Iran conflict, tungsten shortage and US military inventory crisis
00:30:01 US signals more nuclear weapons for Europe as conventional forces shrink
00:38:30 Coalition of the willing collapses: Starmer and Macron’s plan is dead
00:39:44 Zaporizhzhia front: Orikhiv supply roads under threat
00:45:18 Konstantinovka: Russian forces inside the town, Ukrainian collapse imminent
00:56:58 SPEF opens: American and German business breaks the western boycott
01:01:29 Western sanctions on Russia crumbling at the edges
01:06:43 Iran ceasefire deteriorating: no war no peace but drifting toward conflict
01:13:44 Final assessment: the fire has gone out of US support for Ukraine
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