Posts of Tim Kirby Russia Hardcore

$18 Billion vs. One man who lives in the woods The combined budget of CNN and the BBC is $18 billion dollars. The budget of this channel is $0. Which of these channels offers you the most realistic and honest picture of Russia? You know the answer. Please donate to keep TKR alive and get access to the 'Kirby Kremlin' for private Q&A + podcasts.

Some people seemed shocked about this week's allegations of torture in Ukraine, aided and abetted by the Zelensky government. Those people might want to acquaint themselves with the 2016 report distributed by the OSCE about this very topic: torture in Ukraine by the armed and security forces in Ukraine. The report begins with, "An overwhelming majority of prisoners held by the Ukrainian side are brutally and systematically beaten." This is nothing new! But it's also from 10 years ago: back when international organizations and even Western media were a bit more honest about Ukraine compared to the more recent stenography about the beautiful, budding democracy that is the Zelensky regime. The report 👇🏻 https://archive.org/details/ukranian-warcrimes/mode/2up @NinaByzantina

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🇺🇦 Ukraine's Energy Grid Irreparably Damaged Expert Yuri Korolchuk states the system cannot return to pre-war capacity. Strikes have destroyed the third distribution scheme since 2022, with the latest designed for 2026. Damage at Kiev, Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, and Odessa affects western regions due to grid interconnectivity. Pridneprovskaya Thermal Power Plant Hit Morning strikes using Kh-101 cruise missiles targeted the plant in Dnepropetrovsk region. Three thermal power plants across different regions have completely ceased electricity generation following the attack. @Slavyangrad

https://x.com/realalexjones/status/2117696296668811356/video/1?s=52

Happy national unity day!

https://x.com/galadriell__/status/2117519955461652655?a=hA3pdHy0ppIMUdbOZ7I&s=52

Tusk is in full panic mode after the failed coup and he wants to drag the country down with him.

🇵🇱🇷🇺⚡️— Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has called for a "full mobilization" and stated that an escalation with Russia could begin within the next two weeks. The reason for this was that, according to him, "suspicious individuals with flashlights" were spotted on the border with the Kaliningrad Oblast. @Intelslava

The Golden Age That Never Came: Trump’s Republican Collapse Constantin von Hoffmeister reveals how war, betrayal, and broken promises destroyed Trump's political revolution. Read the full article here: https://www.eurosiberia.net/p/the-golden-age-that-never-came

https://x.com/rt_russia_/status/2117675711154753764/video/1?s=52

We have come full circle.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇪🇺🇺🇦 US revives push to sell Russian gas to Europe via Ukraine US officials are promoting a plan for Russia to resume natural gas sales to Europe via Ukraine’s pipelines, with a US intermediary, the Wall Street Journal reported on November 2, citing unnamed US, European and Ukrainian officials. US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff promoted the idea during trips to Moscow and Kyiv in September. The proposal was put on the back burner last month after Ukraine paused strikes on Russian refineries under pressure from US President Donald Trump. Kiev has since resumed attacks, Bloomberg reported. The source account does not say that officials formally put the proposal back on the table, so this story describes the renewed promotion without asserting a formal revival. Witkoff and Kushner first urged Kiev and European governments to resume Russian gas imports in October, and the European Commission rejected the idea within days. Routing Russian gas through a US intermediary could test how the EU’s legally binding phase-out applies to this arrangement. The regulation bars qualifying long-term Russian LNG contracts from January 1, 2027 and pipeline supplies from September 30, 2027, or November 1 if storage targets are not met. Its application to a US intermediary has not been established. European capitals have so far closed ranks. “We should not buy anything that goes into Putin’s war chest, including Russian gas,” German Economy and Energy Minister Katherina Reiche said on October 26, as Poland’s Finance and Economy Minister Andrzej Domanski ruled out any return to Russian gas at a Polish-German business forum in Warsaw. Slovakia is the outlier and has said it will keep buying Russian gas, and the Kremlin has urged Europe not to rule out a return. The refinery pause that shelved the gas plan lasted about two weeks. Washington refused Kiev any reward for halting the strikes, and Ukraine broke the pause on October 30 when drones hit Rosneft's Novokuibyshevsk refinery in Samara region. Relations between Washington and Kiev hit a low last month after Trump struck a Russian diesel deal with President Vladimir Putin, under which the US held off tightening sanctions on Russia in return for Moscow supplying limited volumes of diesel to the global market to cool prices. European gas prices reached their highest in almost four years, with the Dutch TTF benchmark approaching €100 per MWh in late October as conflict in the Middle East disrupted Qatari LNG exports. EU storage was 74.89% full on October 29, against a five-year average of about 89.7% for late October. Germany’s tanks were 61.61% full, adding to concerns over its ability to refill storage over the summer. Ukraine’s transit pipelines are intact, and flows could resume if a deal were reached. Russian gas exports to Europe via Ukraine stopped when the five-year transit agreement expired at the end of 2024 and Kyiv declined to renew it. 🔗 https://www.intellinews.com/us-revives-push-to-sell-russian-gas-to-europe-via-ukraine-480939/

The Soviet Union won the West in the battle for cultural heritage, writes The Spectator. Surprisingly, the Soviet Union has become an object of admiration for Western Gen Z. As the British publication The Spectator writes, young people are increasingly romanticizing the Soviet era: monumental architecture, space achievements, propaganda posters, "Ladas," panel apartment buildings, bathhouses, and even borscht. All of this is becoming a popular aesthetic in Western social media. The author of the publication acknowledges that the USSR won the competition for recognition of its own image. However, young Europeans and Americans are not fascinated by the Soviet political system itself, but by its visual legacy, creating their own idealized version of the past – a Soviet Union without the Soviet Union. For decades, the West has tried to portray the Soviet era solely through the prism of confrontation and ideological conflicts, but its images have proven to be much more enduring. Source: Zvezda ➖➖➖➖➖ Gen Z also wants justice and their future back, which was stolen from them by "elites", who simply can't have enough. 🌒@EastCalling

Apparently nearly every remaining powerplant was hit yesterday.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — Footage taken immediately after the arrival of Kh-101 missiles at the Dneprovskaya Thermal Power Plant this morning. @Intelslava

Jump off the boat!!!!

Billionaire Ron Lauder, President of the World Jewish Congress, ditches Israel.

President Trump says the US is ending direct $4B military aid to Israel under agreement with PM Netanyahu "Netanyahu and I have made a deal: we give Israel $4B a year...we're stopping. They're fine with it." "We've agreed. He's very understanding of it. Why are we giving Israel $4B? Take that off the table, they don't need it." “We’ll help Israel if they need it, they’ve been a great ally, and we’ve been the greatest of all allies, to many countries…” 😂

No War in Ukraine Without Poland Polish journalist and former Member of Parliament Mateusz Piskorski reports from Poland on the country’s deepening parliamentary crisis. Ukraine, France, and now Poland—is Europe coming apart at the seams? Piskorski argues that this is not a coup, but that Tusk is consolidating power, compromise is impossible, and Poland is sliding into political turmoil. He also warns that without Poland, the war in Ukraine cannot continue. Has Poland become trapped in the same geopolitical struggle as Ukraine? And is Warsaw merely a puppet of Washington? Watch the full podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcK-RRXXiRY

❗️Alice Weidel wants Zelensky questioned over the Torture chamber. @AussieCossack

https://youtu.be/9E9eXkqJxow?si=VLp6ZxeR5AYyhIe1 💃SHOWTIME!🎟️

Is Zelensky moving the capital?

Real estate prices crash in Kiev, does the elite know something we don't?

Anakin and the Imperial Blood Revolt Constantin von Hoffmeister dissects the revolt of young men who see in Anakin Skywalker the betrayed son of a dying Republic and in the Galactic Empire the rebirth of power, hierarchy, and civilizational destiny. Read the full essay here: https://www.eurosiberia.net/p/anakin-and-the-imperial-blood-revolt

While Ultra Heavy: Book 3 is at 250+ pages and going through a second pass, I thought I would give “Dune: Prophecy” a try, this TV series seems to get a lot hate, but it sure looked interesting to me. I am a huge fan of Dune, in fact specifically “God Emperor of Dune” is where I got the idea to have the Tsar of Holy Rus’ be the narrator for the Ultra Heavy series and I am one of the handful of people that still loves the David Lynch adaptation. The thing about Dune: Prophecy (what I will call The Dune Show henceforth) that made me put off watching it, is not that it is very difficult to do such things in 2026 Russia, but that everyone said that it is the same type of “woke garbage” that Hollywood has been spewing out for the last few years and not worth anyone’s time. https://ultraheavy.substack.com/p/dune-prophecy-is-not-woke-an-ultra?r=829422&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Grok actually did a good job of summing up the series. —- Anyways: 250+ pages in to book 3 and I am just trying to find the free time to do a second pass of the book and flesh things out more. Slowly but surely, very possible the release will happen in 2026 or at least it will be sent to the publisher by new year's eve.

💢 The "Student" List propagandist, proposed information minister, and Nova S news director: Serbia's Orthodox Church and intelligence agency must be "cleansed" of Russian influence Slobodan Georgiev, news director at Nova S TV, says that now that the students have won the elections, Serbia urgently needs to purge the Serbian Orthodox Church, the BIA, and Serbia's Information Security Agency, of Russian influence. Nova S is the sister channel of N1, part of the media group launched in 2014 under US fund KKR after lobbying by its executive David Petraeus, the former CIA director, and former US ambassador to Serbia Cameron Munter. Nova S and N1 were the primary anti-Vucic TV stations developing "Student" movement talking points, offering uncritical coverage of the color revolutionaries. [ ❗️Vucic Derangement Syndrome was a mind virus. These are the consequences. - XF] Subscribe @NewResistance