Guy Faulconbridge and Dmitry Antonov – Reuters Oct 23, 2025
- Medvedev chides ‘peacemaker’ Trump
- Medvedev says U.S. on the ‘warpath’
- Russia says U.S. sanctions are counterproductive
- Russia says its war aims have not changed
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday it was now absolutely clear that the United States was Russia’s adversary and that U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent steps on Ukraine amounted to an act of war against Russia.
Trump said during the U.S. election campaign that he would swiftly end the Ukraine war which his administration has cast as a “proxy war” between Washington and Moscow, though he has recently expressed frustration about President Vladimir Putin.
Trump, who has described Russia as a “paper tiger”, said on Wednesday he had canceled a planned summit with Putin, and the U.S. Treasury slapped sanctions on two of Russia’s biggest oil companies.
“The United States is our adversary, and their talkative ‘peacemaker’ has now fully embarked on the warpath with Russia,” Medvedev, who serves as deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, wrote on Telegram, referring to Trump.
“The decisions taken are an act of war against Russia. And now Trump has fully aligned himself with loony Europe.”
Putin, paramount leader since the last day of 1999, remains the final voice on Russian policy though Medvedev, an arch-hawk who has repeatedly goaded Trump on social media, gives a sense of hardline thinking within the elite.
Trump in August said that he had ordered two U.S. nuclear submarines to move closer to Russia in response to what he called “highly provocative” comments from Medvedev about the risk of war.
Medvedev said that the move of the “Trumpian pendulum” simply meant that Russia could now hammer Ukraine with a wide variety of weapons “without regard to unnecessary negotiations.”
Putin, who ordered Russian troops into Ukraine in February 2022 after eight years of fighting in the country’s east between Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian government forces, has repeatedly said he is ready to talk about peace.
European leaders and Ukraine say they do not think Putin wants peace and have cautioned that Russia might one day attack a NATO member, a claim the Kremlin has repeatedly dismissed as nonsense.
Russia’s foreign ministry said that Moscow’s aims in Ukraine remained unchanged from 2022: that Ukraine should be neutral, non-aligned, demilitarised and ensure the rights of Russian speakers and Orthodox believers.
“We need a configuration of negotiated solutions that will eliminate the root causes of the conflict and ensure reliable peace in the context of building a Eurasian and broader global system of indivisible security,” spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
She cast U.S. sanctions as extremely counterproductive and warned that if the Trump administration followed the example of previous U.S. administrations then it would fail.
WATCH: Norman Baker says all foreign criminals should be ‘deported as soon as possible’
Norman Baker has warned that Epping hotel migrant Hadush Kebatu could “easily vanish” after being accidentally released from prison.Speaking to GB News, the ex-Home Office Minister issued the bleak prediction following confirmation from police that he boarded a London-bound train this afternoon.FULL STORY HERE.
I am closing my jewelry shop forever…london is too dangerous
LOL..
These Russkies are one of four things, or maybe three or four..
1.very slow learners..
2.Not to bright..
3.An incredibly corrupt jewish gangster state trying to save their sinecures as big farmer*, lol, reorganizes the farm..
4. enjoy being blown up by OTAN ordnance for the last three years as part of a peace plan…
and of course the certainty….Part of the central banking clans Great Reset theatricals..
* careful…not little pharma or wee farter… or even Maria Farmer from the Frankie Jeffshteen show..
An interesting piece of news from former UK Ambassador Craig Murray commenting on a photo op for Keir Starmer and Zelensky released (I think) today. It shows the two chumps in a carefully-angled picture waving to a “crowd” of obvious Ukrainian supporters in what appears to be a gathering in a street–but Craig says he knows the place, he worked there for 20 years, and it’s blocked off with no public access for any crowd. You can only see about twenty people and lots of them are kids. So the photo is a lie. Fake af.
https://nitter.poast.org/CraigMurrayOrg/status/1981776755703914965#m
Tempers flared and insults hurled at East London council debate over ‘ties’ with Israel
Story by Josef Steen
An East London council meeting became heated on Thursday night (October 23) as the
council was accused of funding its staff pensions through “blood money”. Hackney’s Green and Independent opposition groups had triggered an emergency meeting to push for the council to ‘cut all ties with Israel’s genocide’.
Since the outbreak of the Israel war on Gaza, the Labour-run council has been under sustained pressure to take action over Israel’s conduct, which a UN commission of inquiry in September found amounted to genocide.
Thursday’s motion resurrected Pro-Palestine groups demands to sever Hackney’s twinning relationship with Haifa and commit to “immediately starting the process” of divesting its pension fund holdings from firms profiting from Israel’s war o the people of Gaza – and its ongoing occupation of Palestinian territories, which is illegal under international law.
what is the biscari holocaust ?
no longer secret
The Biscari Massacre: A horrendous U.S. War Crime in World War II
In the aftermath of the Allied invasion of Sicily, American troops rounded up and
executed hundreds of unarmed Italian and German prisoners.
some time just sweeping passers by off the street
The Biscari Massacre remains one of the most controversial war crimes committed by U.S. forces in World War II. and is no longer a military secret
After doing the reasonable thing and saying no tomahawks, more lame sanctions, every one, especially some Russians should be breathing a little easier. We have our own chickenhawks, and the Russians can certainly deal. Ukraine needs some elections NOW, and the whole world is on the verge because of that. Ukraine lost years ago BECAUSE the serpent of the people has done nothing but get people killed (Gonzalo Lira, for one). That wasn’t the Russian leadership either. Zelenski could stand an extended vacay, maybe a book tour. Many could benefit. Re-build the country, STOP the killing, JUST by getting a new prez!