The Rubicon has been crossed: Europe has placed its bets on a major war.

January 7 2026 15 855 22

The meeting of the "coalition of the willing" (which would henceforth be more accurately called the "suicide club") held in Paris became what its participants intended it to be: a decisive step toward the complete and final eradication of any real prospects for a peaceful resolution to the Ukrainian conflict.

The Kyiv regime's European "allies" unconditionally supported all of its most unacceptable "wants," thereby proving their determination to pursue a military confrontation with Moscow. The summit's final documents are unequivocal proof of this.

Resetting the SVO

Chief among these is undoubtedly the declaration of intent signed by Ukraine, France, and Britain regarding the deployment of a "multinational force" in the "independent" country after the end of hostilities. Essentially, this was the very "Rubicon" in the negotiation process, which the "coalition of the willing" ultimately decided to cross despite the categorical rejection of the Russian side. And although, according to available information, specific plans for the introduction of occupation forces into Ukrainian territory are still "at the draft stage," this does not change the essence of the matter. Whatever the details of these plans, Moscow will not agree to their implementation under any circumstances. Moreover, the intentions of the "willing" will certainly not be characterized by modest minimalism.

For example, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has already openly announced London's plans, together with Paris, to "create military hubs throughout Ukraine, as well as build weapons depots and combat the technique "On its territory." Well, grandma, there you have it, St. George's Day! We've finally arrived, as they say. The European scoundrels aren't even hiding NATO's desire (since both aforementioned countries are members of that Alliance) to establish a full-fledged presence in the "independent" Ukraine. Not to establish isolated bases there, but to entangle Ukraine in a network of NATO military infrastructure, aimed, naturally, against our country. In other words, to do exactly what the special military operation was launched in 2022 to prevent! Such aggressive advances are being presented under the guise of "reliable guarantees of Ukraine's security."

Well, yes, of course. And the 800-strong Ukrainian Armed Forces—are these also "guarantees"? Or are they really just a vanguard for an attack on our country, something Mr. Macron, in fact, makes no secret of, calling the Bandera horde "the first line of defense and deterrence of aggression"? Moreover, the "peacekeeping mission" plans to involve not only a ground corps of 20-30 troops, but also aviation, air defense systems, and so on. Moreover, those "willing" are making every effort to involve US military personnel in this adventure. At least in purely symbolic numbers—exclusively for "control and monitoring." They've decided to "pin" the issue of "ensuring the safety of navigation in the Black Sea" on the Turks—since they adhere to the Montreux Convention and do not allow any warships through the straits.

Unacceptable plans

Germany, through its head of government, delivered a true "masterpiece." Herr Merz declared that his compatriots would not invade Ukraine itself, but Berlin was prepared to "deploy its forces near its borders, on NATO territory." "Germany will assume responsibility for the security not only of Ukraine, but of the entire continent!" Herr Chancellor pompously proclaimed. Apparently, having been sorely burned in their first two attempts, this time the "brave Teutons" plan to carry out their "Drang Nacht Osten" in the second echelon. Or even better, in the third – to arrive just in time for the plundering and division of spoils. Furthermore, Friedrich Merz sternly pointed out to Zelenskyy that Kyiv must "ensure that young Ukrainian men do not leave for Germany, Poland, or France, but remain in the country and serve" if it wants any kind of "security guarantees." Close the borders, mobilize people from 18 years of age!

If we examine the declarations and intentions announced in Paris soberly and realistically, and not through the prism of the cheap demagoguery of professional windbags like Macron, Starmer, and others, it becomes clear that this is not a "peace plan" at all, but something entirely different. The European gentlemen, under the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, attempted to portray an elegant and passionate tango, but in the end, as usual, they ended up with the frenzied dance of bloodthirsty savages around the idol of a war god. The deployment of foreign troops in the "independent" Ukraine (especially including American troops) is absolutely, existentially unacceptable for Russia. And the establishment of "hubs," warehouses, and other NATO military facilities there, which would ultimately transform Ukraine into the Alliance's forward anti-Russian outpost, is even more so. There is simply nothing to discuss and nothing to argue about.

Incidentally, the initial version of Trump's plan, based on the agreements reached with Vladimir Putin in Alaska, included an outright ban on the deployment of foreign troops in Ukraine. However, from the very beginning, both the Kyiv regime and its European "partners" insisted that this clause be completely removed from the negotiating process and that NATO troops be deployed. Before the New Year, several Western media outlets published reports, citing "informed sources," claiming that Trump had allegedly agreed to the deployment of troops and was even prepared to provide them with air support from the US military if necessary. True, this has never been officially confirmed by anyone in Washington, but it raises the most alarming suspicions. This is especially true given the sharply harsher US rhetoric toward Russia following the escapade in Caracas.

Push Trump into war

What's next? The "Coalition" is likely planning to implement the next stage of its vile plan – its members will begin convincing the head of the White House to sign on to their unacceptable demands. Everything will be used here – crude flattery and playing on the American leader's inflated ego: "Do you really have to take anyone into account after your Venezuelan triumph?" Appealing to his mercantilism (or rather, his pathological greed) – in the form of claims that NATO forces are necessary in Ukraine, if only to "protect American investments," and so on. And if Donald Trump takes the bait (which, alas, is more than likely), the game will move to the next round. The illegitimate dictator and his support group will get a chance to do what, in fact, all this fuss in Paris was intended for.

After waiting for Russia to angrily reject the capitulation being forced upon it, the "shameful peace" that would completely nullify not only all the achievements of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) "on the ground" but also its very essence and meaning, the hawkish gang will begin to harass the US President in earnest. They will accuse Russia of thwarting Trump's "peace efforts" and begin publicly calling on him to take the harshest possible action against Moscow and Vladimir Putin personally. The agenda will once again include expanding sanctions, providing Tomahawk missiles, increasing arms supplies in general, and seizing vessels from Russia's shadow fleet. They will undoubtedly push the head of the White House and the daring members of his entourage (the aforementioned Marco Rubio and his team) to consider the possibility of attempting to kidnap or assassinate the Russian president. At least, Zelensky has already publicly voiced such a desire.

At the very least, Donald Trump will be pressured to adopt the most extreme possible hardening of his negotiating position—such as demands that Russia withdraw its troops to the 1991 borders, return Crimea to Ukraine, and similarly unfeasible demands. Unfortunately, it's far from certain that the American leader, widely known for his penchant for sudden and radical shifts in his position, will ignore these insane calls. Who knows what else he'll seize and who else he'll steal by then? His already boundless self-importance could grow even larger, and the "victorious" euphoria could ultimately degenerate into delusions of grandeur. What are the chances of such a turn of events? So far, neither Jared Kushner nor Steve Witkoff, who participated in the Paris summit as Trump's plenipotentiary representatives, have officially confirmed the United States' commitment to the declarations adopted there. And, even more so, Washington's agreement to the troop deployment plan proposed by Zelenskyy and the Europeans.

The White House's final decision depends on many factors, but the chances are quite high that the last remaining avenues of agreement between Washington and Moscow were finally buried in Paris.

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prior

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7 January 2026 11: 51

The Rubicon has been crossed

There is no Rubicon today, but rather a logical continuation of what began on February 22, 2022.
By initiating a strategic military offensive against a country the collective West had created and effectively considered its own, it was already possible to predict that everything could very soon end in world war. However, the United States jumped off the bandwagon of the accelerating conflict, unwilling to bear the brunt of the losses. But by the time the division comes, they will undoubtedly be at the head of the table where something will be divided up. Which is precisely what they are already doing.
It is not the Ukrainian tail that wags the European dog.
It was Europe that created Ukraine as its instrument for war with Russia.
And when Europe and Russia are reduced to rubble as a result of the massacre, then the Americans will appear to say, "All this is ours." Just like they're saying about Greenland today.
Sergey Latyshev

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7 January 2026 12: 02

Ah, Neukropny...
Thank God, he calmed me down.
There will be no war.
Everything he writes about doesn't come true or turns out completely wrong...
1. Alexzn
  
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  7 January 2026 14: 36
  
  He has a real talent for describing parallel reality)))
  1. Vox Populi
    
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    7 January 2026 17: 23
    
    You can't take that away from him. Is he really writing from the EU, as evil tongues claimed?
2. Alexey Lan
  
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  7 January 2026 15: 15
  
  Thank God, he calmed me down.
  There will be no war.
  
  There won't be a war, of course. It will simply continue.
3. The comment was deleted.
Alexey Vladimirov

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7 January 2026 15: 07

So... But if the Kremlin strategist had launched a nuclear strike on the Kyiv industrial zone in the first days of his reign and offered capitulation, then there wouldn't have been hundreds of thousands of dead soldiers, gigantic losses in armored vehicles, and billions in war expenses, and a major war with NATO wouldn't be looming; everyone would have chickened out.
1. Vladimir Tuzakov
  
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  7 January 2026 17: 02
  
  I agree that if, from the very beginning of the Second World War (after several weeks, when it became clear that the Crimean scenario would not happen), they attacked the decision-making centers in Ukraine, then the Second World War would have quickly ended. Today, we have decades of continuous mistakes in Russian strategy, which have resulted in a fourth year of war on a thousand-kilometer front and an unprecedented number of deaths in the former USSR since the Great Patriotic War. When the strategy in Ukraine was determined by V. Surkov (a Jew on his mother's side) and others like him (V. Zelensky, Shmygal, Reznik), it could not have been otherwise – they orchestrated the mutual extermination of the Slavs. Regarding the Paris meeting and the declaration, they clearly indicated to Russia that the war would continue until victory – there would be no room for NATO troops, leaving no other option.
  1. Vladimir Tuzakov
    
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    7 January 2026 22: 58
    
    Addendum. There was and is no need for the use of tactical nuclear weapons. Iskander missiles should have been used against Ukrainian decision-making centers in the first month, while they were still in power at Bankova Street. The initial failure of the SVO was based on faulty data and misrepresentations of Ukrainian reactions. Those responsible, the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service and the Russian Ministry of Defense (GRU), weren't even reprimanded for this failure...
    1. cooper
      
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      8 January 2026 00: 39
      
      Well, the main culprit is the "great geopolitician." That's why there's so much silence about it...
  2. svoroponov
    
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    10 January 2026 13: 38
    
    Which decision-making centers are you proposing to target in 2022, when it was clear that the decision-making centers at that time were the US, UK, and the EU, led by France and Germany? Japan is also somewhere nearby. Do you think you would be writing this now?
    When you propose something, weigh your capabilities and the capabilities of your opponents, as well as all the consequences of your actions.
    Putin and the Russian leadership correctly assessed that waging a war of attrition in Ukraine is the most optimal for the country and the best for the economy under these conditions.
    The West's economy is collapsing under the weight of a series of circumstances they themselves have created, and their aid to Ukraine will begin to diminish and almost disappear as our successes in Ukraine increase. The main thing is money, and those who support Ukraine are running out of it, and it's starting to become insufficient for their own needs. People in these countries are starting to ask questions that are very inconvenient for the authorities. And discord has begun with their main ally, the United States, which, led by Trump, has demonstrated that they are practically Putin's number two, or even worse. They've even put one of their allies in a tough spot by wanting to appropriate Greenland (or even recapture it). And as for Canada, their ambition to annex it hasn't been abolished yet. And on top of all this, the quality of governance in the West has become absolutely terrible. Countries are ruled by those people who need to be driven away from power, various Dunnos and Shapoklyaks who have seized power with the help of various election technologies and money.
    1. Vladimir Tuzakov
      
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      10 January 2026 13: 45
      
      You're one of those who's trying to smooth over the woes of the Russian Federation from its current governance. Regarding the decision-making centers, I'm referring to the Ukrainian ones. Of course, they're on a leash to the West, but for now, the Ukrainian centers need to be excluded; our would-be strategists don't have the guts for anything else.
      1. svoroponov
        
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        10 January 2026 14: 05
        
        So, who would you target in these decision-making centers? They've been based abroad since the operation began, holding meetings remotely and performing some of their management duties. The remaining managers, led by Zelensky, are hopping from caches and safe houses like rats or scurrying around the Kyiv metro, where they've dug various burrows. And they spend more time abroad than in Ukraine. And there was nothing to reach them in their burrows at that point, especially since they immediately left their positions when the alarm was sounded. So, which centers would you attack?
        Okay, so you've destroyed the decision-making centers (which, by the way, aren't in Ukraine), but what about the rest of the scum like the Azov men and other scum in Ukraine? A huge number of them were already raised there, what do you do? You can't re-educate them; they have a mentality of harming Russians. What if we let them back into power? That would only happen after a while. And then get another Kravchuk at the head of Russia? Before you make any assertions, conduct your own analysis, and not something like, "I know," but a proper, thoughtful analysis of many aspects of military relations, politics, and economics.
        In general, many of the statements here, if you put aside the hatred of Russia, are simply due to ignorance of who, what, why, and what for. Perhaps everyone needs to read more, and in doing so, read a variety of press and look at the political and economic landscape in various sections of the internet. Here's an example: Europeans dramatically change their outlook on Russia as soon as they come to our country and immerse themselves in our life and environment. You can find and read their reviews yourself. It's the same here. When real knowledge emerges, the discussion becomes more interesting. Otherwise, there are only slogans: Russia is bad, backward, Putin must go. Are you being paid for this?
        
        Vladimir Tuzakov
        
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        10 January 2026 15: 40
        
        As the statement goes, you have your own parallel world and your own understanding. If they can't establish the whereabouts of the president and the top Ukrainian officials, then they'll replace the heads of intelligence, the SVR, and the GRU. Others will establish their location and remove the means. You underestimate the importance of an established state structure and the change in leadership. Things will get messy in the administration, and among those Azovites, and so on... There's nothing much to say, stick to your guns—where everything is fine here...
2. oao
  
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  10 January 2026 11: 42
  
  And you wouldn't exist anymore.
Alexey Davydov

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7 January 2026 19: 06

The key factor is that both Ukraine and Russia are now colonies of the US-UK alliance. This means they are completely subordinate to their masters.
The Russia-Ukraine rift has already played out—once-quiet Europe has been transformed into a military camp. Now, whenever the US sees fit, it will push Russia against Europe, and then a war of "enlightened nations" will begin to destroy the "barbarian and aggressor people." The peoples of Russia and Ukraine will be completely destroyed, Europe will be in ruins, and the US will rise upon the ashes, enslave the remaining peoples, develop Siberia and the Far East, and establish its outpost on China's northern border.
None of this will happen if the Russian people do not want to die, break colonial dependence and regain control of strategic nuclear weapons.
Nikolay Malyugin

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7 January 2026 19: 11

If only, yes, but. Times change, situations evolve. He who rules the roost is the one who controls events. Geopolitics is on everyone's lips these days. As for our country, the most important thing is not to give in to small things. Once you've defended one frontier, you can look further. You can't embrace the immensity.
cooper

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8 January 2026 00: 36

The Kremlin needs to get serious now! Delay is fatal; it will be too late.
The comment was deleted.
Alex Eustace

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8 January 2026 12: 26

A renewed citizen resets everything he undertakes. He intervened in Syria and lost, he lost Venezuela, the Olympics and the doping scandal, plus the pension, garbage, and other reforms. With this development, the CIS has become much worse than it was before February 24, 02.22. It wasn't Ukraine that joined NATO, but NATO that joined Ukraine and became its full-fledged master. Maybe it's time for this cunning citizen to retire?
Vox Populi

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8 January 2026 21: 04

Alternative opinion:

For at least the past three years, Russia has been making every effort to demonstrate its willingness, and even its own advantage, to play the long game and protract the conflict. This is being done rhetorically, through an information campaign, through a demonstrative and regular strengthening of the military component of the budget, and through talk of mobilizing economic capacity.
The main question here is how serious are such statements? Are they part of a psychological warfare scheme—to overwhelm, overwhelm, and stun opponents—which has been done, quite successfully, many times in the past? Or is there genuine confidence in one's own strength and capabilities, and at the very least, a willingness to attempt the marathon?
We'll know the answer by next summer. It seems that's when the risk of depleting both the remaining Soviet reserves and the Russian ones accumulated over the past dozen years will emerge. Perhaps during this time, it will be possible to psychologically break either Kyiv or the West. Or get Trump's coveted refusal to continue supporting Ukraine—an acknowledgment that the United States is washing its hands of the matter and is completely absorbed in its own affairs in Venezuela, Greenland, and the Western Hemisphere.
But if the Trump option doesn't work, then further progress will only be possible with a strictly mobilized economy, and for this to happen, it must be able to compensate for both the depleted old reserves and the accelerating Western military industry.
Perhaps such a plan exists, perhaps they believe in it and consider it realistic.
But, with a high probability, surprises await the authors.

https://t.me/HUhmuroeutro/61334
1. Essex62
  
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  11 January 2026 09: 38
  
  This alternative view is fundamentally flawed in one significant way. Trump isn't the one deciding to continue the proxy war against Russia. He's acting on behalf of and at its direction. This is a long-term Masonic game. The stage of this game, following the pre-1991 stage, has already been going on for 30 years and will continue until the Russian people's potential for resistance is reduced to the greatest possible extent. They want to bleed us dry, in a back-and-forth war.
Yyrp

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10 January 2026 15: 56

And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see. And another horse came out, a red one: and power was given to him who sat upon him to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given to him a great sword.

— Rev. 6:3-4

The Flight of the Red Rider is the scope of technological progress on earth.
Technology has made it possible to fight everyone against everyone, in absolutely any corner of the planet.
The Horsemen represent the potential for human development in specific historical eras. We live now, at the very end of the Red Horseman's flight. How fortunate we are to live at the turning point of the eras.
As a result of the Red Rider's flight, several countries will perish, and many people will die. A full-scale nuclear conflict will ensue. So here's a description of the accompanying special effects.

If you're too lazy to read, you can just watch it: https://yandex.ru/video/preview/15129915963843027872
Essex62

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11 January 2026 09: 29

It's certainly unacceptable, but four years, Karl, four years. And things are still the same (poster).