Russia

Burevestnik - Russia's New Nuclear Powered Cruise Missile Explained​

If I could convince my wife... I'd move to Russia!

My grandfather was known as a "White Russian" which was a German farmer who migrated at the behest of Catherine The Great (Empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796) to the Volga region which had rich soil for farming. She promised German farmers they wouldn't be conscripted for 100 years. Many German farmers went.

Around the 1890's, as a young man grandpa decided to leave and migrated to the US.

sobering...

Russia Didn't Collapse — The West's Strategy Backfired Catastrophically | J. Mearsheimer​

The sanctions that were supposed to destroy Russia have created something far worse for the West: a multipolar world order that challenges American hegemony itself.
Professor John Mearsheimer reveals how Jeffrey Sachs' devastating analysis exposes the complete failure of Western strategy. While NATO celebrated tactical victories, Russia was winning an entirely different war—the systematic dismantling of dollar dominance and Western economic control.

What You'll Discover:
Why the "ruble collapse" predictions were catastrophically wrong
How Europe committed economic suicide with energy sanctions
The hidden mathematics behind America's declining financial hegemony
Russia's strategic pivot to the Global South and what it means
Why BRICS expansion threatens the foundation of Western power
The real reason China, India, and Saudi Arabia are abandoning dollar trade
Sachs' warning about the "awakening of sovereignty" worldwide
How desperate hegemons historically respond when economic weapons fail

Key Revelations:

Russia-China trade in domestic currencies jumped from 2% to 75% in three years
German factories are shuttering while Russian energy flows east
BRICS+ now represents over half the world's population
Alternative payment systems are processing billions outside SWIFT
The "exorbitant privilege" that built American empire is ending

This isn't just about Russia surviving sanctions—it's about the emergence of a genuinely multipolar world where American economic coercion no longer works. Mearsheimer's realist analysis combined with Sachs' insider warnings reveals why the West's strategy has accelerated its own decline.

Critical Questions Answered:
Can the West adapt to multipolarity before it's too late? What happens when dollar dominance truly ends? Why are America's closest allies quietly hedging their bets? How do declining hegemons typically respond when facing existential threats?

Professor Mearsheimer breaks down the structural forces reshaping global power and warns that the choices made today will determine whether this transition happens peacefully or through the chaos that historically accompanies imperial collapse.

Christmas in St Petersburg While the West Fuels War Elsewhere​

Foreign Agent Intel
Dec 24, 2025


Christmas Eve in St Petersburg this year feels almost unreal. Minus two degrees, cleared pavements, families wandering freely, children laughing in front of the lights near the Hermitage Museum and Kazan Cathedral. It is calm, human, and unmistakably alive. The kind of evening that reminds you what normal life is supposed to look like.

That calm stands in brutal contrast to what continues elsewhere. Even as Christmas cheer hangs in the air, terrorist attacks persist. In Moscow, traffic police were killed by an IED attack directed by Ukrainian security services. There is no military logic in this. It is psychological terror, the last resort of those who cannot win on the battlefield. The West pretends not to see it, because acknowledging it would shatter the narrative they have invested so much political capital in maintaining.

This Christmas is also personal. Three years ago, the thought that kept many awake was not geopolitics but children. Children in Donbass who had never known peace, who learned the sound of shelling before they learned what Christmas was. Back then, small volunteer efforts delivered what they could. Today, that responsibility has been taken up at scale. Moscow sent convoys. Cities across Russia sponsored reconstruction. Mariupol, once reduced to ruins by Ukrainian fire, is being rebuilt street by street. This is not rhetoric. It is concrete, cranes, schools, heating systems, and gifts delivered to families who were written off by the West years ago.

The real victory is not measured in maps or press releases. It is measured in thousands of children who, for the first time in their lives, will enter a New Year without hiding in basements. Free from daily attacks. Free from a Western-sponsored campaign that treated their suffering as acceptable collateral damage.

It is worth remembering who promised them that fate. Petro Poroshenko openly said that the children of Donbass would cower in cellars while others lived normally. That same political class now circles back into view, with Western capitals quietly discussing how to repackage Ukraine’s leadership once the current figurehead becomes inconvenient. London remains a familiar staging ground for these plots. Different faces, same corrupt advisers, same outcomes.

Even if a peace deal comes, and there are reasons to be cautiously optimistic, the work will only be beginning. Russia will have done what it set out to do: remove the Nazi infection from Donbass and secure its people. But Russia is not going to fix the West. It will not save Britain, Europe, or the United States from the ideological decay they have chosen. That task belongs to those societies themselves.

Here in St Petersburg, a street musician sings an old song by Kino as people stop, smile, and listen. It is not a performance for propaganda. It is culture, continuity, and quiet resilience. While Western media insists on portraying Russia as a gray wasteland, real life continues, grounded in community, history, and an unspoken understanding of what actually matters.

This Christmas, the contrast could not be clearer. One side exports chaos and calls it values. The other rebuilds shattered cities and lets children sleep in peace.