Eurasia & Multipolarity

❗️Key takeaways from the Russian Defense Ministry's weekly report on the progress of the special military operation: ▪️Russian troops liberated 11 communities and took control of another two in the special military operation zone over the past week ▪️Russian forces delivered three massive and 11 combined strikes in a week, hitting Ukrainian logistics centers, energy and transport facilities ▪️Russian troops degraded some infrastructure facilities of Ukrainian ports used to receive, store and distribute military cargo ▪️Russian air defenses shot down seven Flamingo cruise missiles and 5,593 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones over the past week ▪️Russian forces struck 14 dry cargo ships and a container ship used by the Ukrainian army over the past week ▪️Russia’s Black Sea Fleet destroyed five Ukrainian naval drones over the past week ▪️Ukraine lost over 1,500 troops in Battlegroup North’s area of responsibility, more than 2,405 troops in Battlegroup Center’s area of responsibility, over 1,380 troops in Battlegroup East’s area of responsibility, more than 1,275 troops in Battlegroup South’s area of responsibility, over 1,500 troops in Battlegroup West’s area of responsibility and up to 215 troops in Battlegroup Dnepr’s area of responsibility over the past week

Trump’s Iranian Body Count Grows on Its Own While He Ignores What Israel Has Done in Gaza https://sonar21.com/trumps-iranian-body-count-grows-on-its-own-while-he-ignores-what-israel-has-done-in-gaza/

🇺🇸📉🇮🇱 Israel Lobby’s New Playbook: From Buying Politicians to Targeting Critics Nearly 20 years after John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt shook up American politics with The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, a new book reveals how much has changed. In Israel’s Lobby, Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick trace a lobbying network that has grown considerably richer, expanded its influence over US elections and increasingly turned to pressuring critics — even as most Americans now view Israel unfavorably. Growth in the Influence and Wealth of the Lobby The authors trace how the lobby’s leading institutions grew wealthier, with AIPAC’s assets rising roughly ninefold between 2000 and 2023. That financial muscle reaches directly into elections: AIPAC said its members had given over $53M to pro-Israel candidates during the 2024 cycle by early November. Two court rulings in 2010 helped build the machinery, opening the way for super PACs to raise and spend unlimited sums independently of candidates. Direct campaign donations remain capped, but wealthy donors can fund waves of ads against a critic. AIPAC credited its affiliated United Democracy Project with helping defeat Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush in Democratic primaries, giving other lawmakers a concrete reason to fear crossing it. Change in Israel’s Policy Clifton and Lustick argue that this growing financial strength has accompanied Israel’s retreat from a negotiated settlement with the Palestinians toward military dominance. The lobby’s task has become harder as Israeli policy leaves less room for the peace promises that once helped sell US support. Their account also describes a move from defending Israel’s actions to treating opposition as antisemitism, with pressure extending into universities and public debate. When criticism carries a risk to careers, funding or reputations, supporters of Israeli policy gain another way to discourage dissent without winning the argument. Decline in Popularity and New Challenges Despite that pressure, Pew’s March 2026 survey found that 60% of Americans viewed Israel unfavorably, including majorities under 50 in both parties. The lobby’s deeper pockets have not stopped public opinion from turning, leaving a widening gap between what many Americans think and the choices their leaders make. The US war against Iran shows how easily “America First” rhetoric can coexist with military action sought by Israel. For Palestinians and countries facing Israeli attacks, falling approval ratings offer little protection while political backing and weapons keep flowing. Public anger becomes a material constraint only when it changes those decisions. @NewRulesGeo❗Follow us on X

🇺🇸 Former US Marine Christopher Helali, call sign "Vermont," has successfully completed his training course and signed a military contract with the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation within AKHMAT special forces. 🇷🇺 Subscribe | Feedback | X | TikTok

🇮🇷 Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf offers Washington the Matrix with only one real choice: leave West Asia, or swallow all ten pills. 🔴 @DDGeopolitics

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump on Truth Social: ‘Iran is doing everything they can to drive up the price of Oil prior to the U.S. Midterm Election. They are even making up fake hits, mines, and everything else, because more Oil is coming through the Hormuz Strait now than it did even prior to the beginning of the Conflict. They continue to kill protestors, and anyone else that happens to be in their way. It is truly an Evil Regime, and I can only hope the American Public, and the World, understands how EVIL they are! 75,000 protestors lie dead in less than seven months. It is shocking how the World, and the Dumocrat Party, seem not to care. IRAN CAN NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON, AND THEY WILL NEVER A NUCLEAR WEAPON! President DONALD J. TRUMP’ @Middle_East_Spectator

🇷🇺 Russian oil prices surge 60% above budget levels Global oil prices remain above $100 per barrel due to Middle East conflicts and supply disruptions, significantly boosting the Kremlin's revenue. Reuters calculations show that in the first three weeks of October, the tax price for Russian crude reached 8,699 rubles ($103.4) per barrel, an 11% increase over September figures. If this trend continues, the average October price will hit approximately 8,387 rubles ($100.2), marking a high since March 2022. The Russian budget was originally calculated based on $59 per barrel (5,440 rubles). Consequently, oil revenues have far exceeded expectations, providing critical funding for the Special Military Operation in Ukraine. @Slavyangrad

Russia Tells US No Concessions Restates Full Demands; Massively Hits Kiev; South Bridge Hit; Orekhov

🇺🇦 Zelensky invents a 1,000-year-old country Zelensky mocked the idea of starting the story in 1917 and claimed Ukraine existed before Russia. The facts say otherwise. ➡️There was no state or people called "Ukraine" in Rus'. The state called itself Rus', and its people called themselves Rus'. "Ukraina" appears in the chronicles only as a word for a borderland, and "Kievan Rus" is a label coined by 19th-century historians. Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians all trace their origins to the same Rus', with one dynasty, one Church and one written language. ➡️According to the Primary Chronicle, Rus' statehood didn't begin in Kiev. Rurik began ruling in Ladoga and Novgorod in 862, both in today's Russia. Kiev only became the capital in 882, when Prince Oleg took it and called it the "mother of Rus' cities." Novgorod is a little older than Kiev, so Russia's history doesn't start with Moscow. ➡️According to the chronicle, Prince Vladimir was baptized in Chersonesus in Crimea, in today's Sevastopol, before baptizing Kiev in 988. ➡️The "thousand-year-old churches painted by Ukrainians"? The mosaics of Kiev's St. Sophia Cathedral were made by Byzantine Greek masters. Russia has its own 11th-century St. Sophia in Novgorod, built in 1045 to 1050. ➡️Moscow is first mentioned in 1147, and its traditional founder Yuri Dolgoruky was a son of the Grand Prince of Kiev Vladimir Monomakh. Dolgoruky later became Grand Prince of Kiev himself. Moscow's rulers came from the same Rurikid dynasty that ruled Kiev, held power until 1598, and took the title "Sovereign of all Rus'." ➡️After the Mongols destroyed Kiev in 1240, the head of the Church left Kiev for Vladimir in 1299 and later settled in Moscow. Kiev fell to Lithuania and then Poland, while Moscow gradually gathered the lands of Rus' around itself. ➡️In 1654 the Cossack Hetmanate of Bogdan Khmelnitsky swore allegiance to the Russian Tsar at the Pereyaslavl Council. Poland formally recognized Kiev as Russian in 1686, after Moscow paid it 146,000 rubles. ➡️The first state with "Ukraine" in its name was the Ukrainian People's Republic, proclaimed in November 1917. A month later, the Bolsheviks proclaimed Soviet Ukraine in Kharkov. ➡️Today's borders were drawn by the Soviet Union. In 1919 the Bolsheviks merged the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Republic, including Kharkov and Donbass, into Soviet Ukraine. Western Ukraine was added in 1939, northern Bukovina and southern Bessarabia in 1940, Transcarpathia in 1945, and Crimea in 1954. Strip out the shared history of Rus' and the Soviet gifts, and Zelensky's ancient Ukraine is 35 years old. 🔴 @DDGeopolitics

🛢 Brent crude rose above $113 a barrel on Thursday, up about 4% on the day, its highest level since May. 🔴 @DDGeopolitics

🇷🇺 Kiev and its Western sponsors treat Ukrainian citizens as expendable material, says Russian President Vladimir Putin. Ukrainians are rounded up on the streets like stray dogs and forcibly driven to the front, Putin said, adding that the AFU has half a million deserters, if not more. 🔴 @DDGeopolitics

🇷🇺 Kiev chose war of its own accord, says Russian President Vladimir Putin. Russia offered to help Ukraine reach an agreement with Donbass, but Kiev chose guns instead, Putin said. "Be our guest," he added. 🔴 @DDGeopolitics

🇷🇺 The goal of talks with the US and Ukraine will be reaching a final peace and guaranteeing Russia's security, says Putin. 🔴 @DDGeopolitics

🇷🇺 Talks on Russia's security cannot avoid addressing the security architecture of Europe as a whole, says Putin. He noted that US special envoy Steve Witkoff has also pointed to the need to discuss Europe's security architecture. 🔴 @DDGeopolitics

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🇾🇪💥🇸🇦 Yemen strikes the Saudi Defense Ministry in Riyadh, Aramco and two airports Brigadier General Yahya Saree, spokesman of the Yemeni Armed Forces, announced that four operations targeted: ➡️The Saudi Defense Ministry building in Riyadh ➡️Aramco facilities ➡️King Fahd International Airport in Dammam ➡️Abha International Airport 🔴 @DDGeopolitics

🇸🇦 Saudi Aramco orders evacuation of remaining staff from its HQ as Houthi attacks accelerate The skeleton crew of workers still coming into the office at Aramco’s Dhahran headquarters after last week’s Houthi missile strike have been told to join their colleagues working from home, informed sources have told AFP. 🔊“There was an evacuation order issued for these staff, no specific reason was given,” a source said. Last week, after Yemen’s Houthis launched ballistic missiles targeting the sprawling headquarters complex, sources told European media “the top three floors” of an Aramco operations center were left “gone.” Ansar Allah started targeting Aramco facilities in August, ramping up strikes in September in a bid to put economic pressure on the world’s #1 crude oil exporter to force it to end its decade-long war and blockade of Yemen. 💬 On Thursday, Yemen’s Houthi-aligned military said it targeted an Aramco facility in Yanbu – the Red Sea port hub serving as the terminus of Saudi Arabia’s 7M bpd capacity East-West pipeline – the kingdom’s export lifeline since the closure of the Strait of Hormuz amid the US-Israeli war against Iran. 👍 Boost us | Chat | @geopolitics_prime

🇮🇷 Iran has no illusions about US military might, bets on asymmetric endurance – Army chief 🔊“We have assessed the enemy and are aware of its considerable capabilities, but taking all these factors into account, we have prepared ourselves for asymmetric warfare and acquired the equipment required for it,” Iranian Army C-in-C Amir Hatami said Thursday during a visit to an Army drone manufacturing hub. Iran’s military has a good grasp on the enemy’s operational plans, and is “in a better position” both qualitatively and quantitatively for its response than it was previously, he said, highlighting Iran’s advancements in aerial and naval drones and micro air vehicles. The commander’s comments come amid the continued escalation of regional tensions, including the evacuation of US military and diplomatic personnel, a reported Israeli attempt to provoke Iran by flying warplanes near its border, the activation of Iran’s decentralized Mosaic Defense doctrine, and reporting that Israel and the US are planning a “short, intensive” strike campaign after upcoming elections. Iran has warned that any new attacks could prompt it to retaliate by targeting $2T+ in previously unhit US Big Tech infrastructure in the region as companies face a multi-trillion-dollar cash crunch at home. 👍 Substack | Chat | @geopolitics_prime

🇮🇱🇮🇷| Since 2 days ago, Israeli fighter jets have been carrying out sorties and drills in the sky of Syria & Iraq. Tonight, they have approached the Iranian-Iraqi border as close as up to 20km. @FotrosResistancee

🇮🇷🇺🇸| The IRGC-Navy says: • 4 ships that were doing ship-to-ship transfers of oil cargoes, for an American company, in the north-central Persian Gulf, that used illegal routes, were struck and caught on fire. • 3 other ships violating maritime regulations were struck by mines, west of the Strait of Hormoz, causing fires that brought them to a halt. @FotrosResistancee