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  • August 31, 2026: The Law of the Jungle

    August 31, 2026: The Law of the Jungle | RSS.com At a Moscow university on Saturday, Vladimir Putin told a room of educators and students that packs of orcas sometimes hunt and kill polar bears. “Children should be told about this,” he explained, “so that they understand what kind of world we live in and

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  • August 24, 2026: Pandora’s Box

    August 24, 2026: Pandora’s Box | RSS.com Last week, Vladimir Putin sat down for an interview with Russian propagandist Pavel Zarubin, where he warned that Ukrainian strikes on Russian energy and logistics infrastructure had “opened Pandora’s box.” Moscow, Putin promised, would respond with devastating force. Kyiv’s deep strikes this summer have turned the war into

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  • Europe’s Defense Reality Check (w/ Joshua Huminski)

    Europe’s Defense Reality Check (w/ Joshua Huminski | RSS.com Over four years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Western intelligence agencies have begun issuing public warnings about the threat of a Russian escalation against NATO before the end of the decade. With Washington seeking to reduce its conventional forces on the continent and weapon delivery

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  • August 10, 2026: Blame Russia for Everything

    Russia Decoded This week, Vesti devoted its Europe report to a single accusation: that a failing European political class blames Moscow for every crisis that it has created itself, from migrants surging into Ceuta to vineyards burning in France and Germany’s self-imposed energy shock. All of it, the program insists, is unfairly laid at Russia’s

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