Starobelsk College, Lugansk, Russia
Strategic Culture – May 29, 2026
A grim, consequential watershed in the West’s conflict with Russia has arrived.
The murder of 21 Russian teenage students at a teacher-training college last week was an abominable moment of truth with far-reaching, grievous implications.
A grim, consequential watershed in the West’s conflict with Russia has arrived.
The victims were mainly girls aged between 14 and 18 who were killed when their university dormitory in Starobelsk, Lugansk, was attacked overnight on May 22.
What is absolutely revealing is how the Collective West has shown no remorse or restraint about the crime, going as far as denying responsibility and adding insult to the memory of the dead. The perpetrators have an obscene sense of impunity and inhumane entitlement.
The attack involved 16 drones that targeted the college in a wave of three assaults. There can be no doubt that the air strike was a deliberate act. That makes it an act of cold-blooded mass murder; an act of terrorism.
Vassily Nebenzia, Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, stated: “The blood of the children from Starobelsk is on the hands of the West whose nations are supplying the terrorist regime [in Ukraine] with money, intelligence, weapons, and ammunition for years, inspiring it to commit new crimes against the civilian population, and then covering it up by presenting the Kiev regime as a victim.”
The corrupt NeoNazi regime in Kiev under Vladimir Zelensky and his cronies is only a bit player in this crime. The regime, which, by the way, gave burial honors to a World War Two Nazi collaborator this week, is merely the scum atop the Western criminal organizations behind this and other atrocities, and indeed the entire conflict with Russia.
Several respected international authorities have repeatedly pointed out that the nearly five-year war in Ukraine that erupted in February 2022 is the culmination of a long-term policy to embattle Russia with NATO aggression. Professors John Mearsheimer, Jeffrey Sachs, Alfred de Zayas, among others, have cogently explained how this conflict in Europe – the biggest since WWII – has come about.
The Kiev regime has been armed to the teeth by the United States and its Western partners, bankrolled by Washington and the European Union, and directed by NATO military intelligence. The attacks on Russian civilian centers could not happen without the direct support of the “Collective West”.
More recently, the European Union, which has emerged as the de facto political and fundraising wing of NATO, has stepped up its funding and coordination of drone armaments for the Kiev regime. Britain has also become an important supplier of Ukrainian drone technology, while the Baltic states and Finland are acting as launch sites for deeper strikes into Russia.
A drone crash in Romania this week elicited much theatrical condemnation of Russia as the perpetrator. More likely, given the surge in drones operating from NATO states, the Romanian incident was an own goal or a Ukrainian false-flag provocation. Telling, too, was the paroxysm of Western media coverage blaming Russia for the “reckless” drone, compared with the negligible reporting by these same media on the massacre in Starobelsk only days before.
The European NATO states are in effect becoming the Luftwaffe of the Kiev regime. As Russia’s envoy, Dmitry Polyansk, to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, warned this week, the drums of war are beating louder across the continent. European politicians like German Chancellor Friedrich Merz are calling for more NATO forces to build up along Russia’s borders, while the EU’s so-called top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, disparages peace diplomacy with Russia as a “Kremlin trap.”
Alfred de Zayas, professor of international law at the Geneva School of Diplomacy and a former UN independent expert, gave the following assessment to Strategic Culture Foundation regarding the NATO alliance. He said that it is now urgent to recognize that “it is a criminal organization” within the meaning of the Nuremberg rulings delivered in 1946 against Nazi war criminals, when aggression was defined as the supreme war crime.
De Zayas notes that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was founded nearly eight decades ago, in 1949, supposedly to defend the West from the Soviet Union. Since the Soviet Union ceased to exist in 1991, along with its Warsaw Pact military bloc, NATO should have also disbanded at that time.
“NATO has morphed from being a defensive alliance into a war coalition that has committed heinous crimes since the 1990s in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and elsewhere,” he said. “While NATO forces, since the 1990s, have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity, what is important today is that world public opinion recognizes NATO as a threat to the peace and security of humankind.”
From the end of the Cold War, the United States-led military alliance has more than doubled its member states to the current 32, several of which border Russia. Under the UN Charter, regional security organizations are supposed to be subordinate to the UN Security Council. But the NATO bloc presumes to be above the law. It is a rogue force that attacks other nations at will, as we are seeing currently with Russia.
Says de Zayas: “It is not a legitimate regional organization under article 52 of the UN Charter, because it acts against the purposes and principles of the UN and has relentlessly committed the crimes of aggression, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.”
The mass murder of college students in Starobelsk and numerous other civilian casualties of NATO drone attacks on Russian territory are a testament to the terrorist nature of NATO.
De Zayas adds that it is also important to identify the sinister role of the Western corporate-controlled news media. The media have systematically distorted the conflict in Ukraine as “unprovoked Russian aggression” while whitewashing NATO and the NeoNazi regime for their litany of crimes, the latest being the atrocity at Starobelsk.
“Relentless propaganda and public relations have convinced the Western public that NATO is a good organization, legitimate, respectable, interested in peace and defense. This is total brainwashing,” said de Zayas.
“When the media indoctrination and propaganda about NATO is exposed as false, when the perception in Western countries moves from positive to negative, when people realize that NATO is a criminal institution, it will be possible to wind it down. Ultimately, NATO must be recognized not only as a criminal organization, a blustering vestige of a moribund Western imperialism, but as a mortal danger to the survival of civilization on Earth.”
All this confers on our editorial to draw several inescapable implications: the political leaders of the United States and the European Union, who make this NATO aggression happen through deliberate policies, must also face the same indictment. They are war criminals.
The Western media that propagandize for war and war crimes are also indictable as complicit in these crimes.
Furthermore, it is now clearer than ever that Russia is at war with an aggressive Collective West, and its manifestations, including the United States, the EU, NATO, and the Kiev regime. Therefore, Moscow has the legal and moral right to hit the decision-making centers that have Russian blood on their hands. All the more so because these Western decision-making centers presume impunity and the ghoulish right to drench their hands with even more Russian blood.
What no one ever asks is this: What possible reason would whoever’s supposed to be the bad guy this time have to blow up a school?
Then there’s this: The Russian’s are forever going on about the holohoax, pushing it as real.
So what conclusion can you draw? They’re both on the same side, which is obvious in a million other ways.
“School bombings” are there for the same reason as “school shootings”. To divide and conquer. It makes you go hardline for one side or the other. They don’t care which you choose.
Are you aware that the Amish are supposed to have had a “school shooting”? The Amish? Yeah, right. That’s like a three year old shooting the other three year olds in a kindergarten.
Divide and conquer. MKUltra. Be afraid. Do nothing. Die.
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Outline planning permission has been granted for 180 homes on land near Creighton Rugby Club, known locally as Bob Bell’s Field, marking the first approved housing site within the ambitious St Cuthbert’s Garden Village project.
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Much to agree with in this article. NATO is a military death cult as well as a remorseless propaganda machine gaslighting its populace to accept its own death and destruction-but not of its psychopathic weasel leaders.
At the moment in the Baltics and Funland the most egregious distortion is taking place, no surprise that war whore Ursula V was recently visiting and informed the population that war could erupt at any moment on the Eastern border (front) due to the Russian ‘threat’. Tandem with this, Russia is presented as a useless busted economy, a military incompetent, a gangster society whose population long to overthrow the tyrant Putin and normalize relations with the ‘West’ by installing a new Yeltsin type cipher. You can’t have it both way though can you? You can! Drone hysteria has been whipped up in this sector of NATO with the idea that all and any drones are Russian. Russia is condemned as reckless and cynical because of drone incursions in these 4 countries all bordering Russia.
However, the media there frothing at the mouth about this situation and Ursula V saying NATO must show its teeth gets a startling reality check from its own military. They confirmed that drones falling in these countries were all long range Ukie drones flying over (or from) NATO airspace! But this apparently is quite OK as Ukie has the ‘right to defend itself’ Where else is that lie wheeled out about? Russia diverting them or causing them to crash is the provocation, they should let them hit targets in Russia. All 4 countries assure Z of their total support for his attempt to blow up Russian oil refineries despite the ecological cataclysm that would engulf the Baltic and its populace . It’s legitimate and the local populace must pay the price and are glad to (crippling self harm sanctions e.g.)
Just take a look at the map and ask yourself WHY drones from Ukie would be flying over the Baltic states and Funland to attack Moscow, Petersburg etc?? Or are Ukie made drones preparing a false flag or actually launched from NATO states with UK intelligence subversion? Win win for war whore whatever.
It has to be said that although Russia is taking on the whole of an ever enlarging NATO and holding them in stalemate, Putin’e endless caution is simply making a nuclear or other catastrophic outcome all the more inevitable. Giving ‘warnings’ to NATO members to remove their personnel from Kiev before retaliating is only encouraging NATO’s messianic can’t touch us arrogance. It is like a Coke rush to Z who thinks he’s untouchable and can never be ousted or punished such is Putin’s mulish obsession with a ‘negotiaed’ peace. He has to imposet peace otherwise in 3 4 years time NATO will be back for more. There are other voices in Russia who will deal with it differently as they can see the danger NATO poses but they also know the West is fundamentally and structurally weak, the peoples of Russia and the EU deserve better and need a true accord not treaties signed by weasels in high places.
LOL..
the collective so called west hasn’t ‘morphed’ into anything, it’s always been a terrorist gangster network..
it’s just that you’ve finally noticed you pathetic imbecile.. but you still get it all wrong, maybe that’s because the terrorist gangster network are running the narratives and reframes….
roger that..
Doesnt look like a girls school, and more like an old building scheduled for demo and rebuilt. Surprized they didnt roll out the dead in neat little body bags as they do at all these fake events. Russia is in cooperation with the “west” for such charades.
How come when Ukraine teaches children to use weapons it’s called preparing children for war but when the other side does it they’re child soldiers? Our side needs to learn to shut its face a while before speaking. Like when Ukraine used drones to deliver explosives they called it “innovation”, but when the resistance to the west did it in Iraq and Afghanistan they were “improvised explosive devises” spoken of as though designed by the devil himself. The double standards never cease.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/inside-schools-preparing-ukrainian-children-070000445.html
Yes, it’s true UK/NATO>EU is a monster. but the question has to be asked – why is Putin holding back? Ukraine could easily be destroyed.
It must be obvious that simply liberating the ‘new’ provinces won’t solve the problem. At best Russia will be facing a forever war with ceaseless cross-border terrorist incursions. The new provinces will never be safe. Eventually there will be a hot war with a much better prepared enemy.
Ukraine must be smashed, and reduced to a bankrupt, deindustrialised, landlocked starving rump. Let the EU have that and pay for it. The border must be driven to the Dneiper and Odessa taken.
The whole “nazi” thing was bandied about a bit too much in the piece, and the UN should probably be turned into a smouldering crater…..
The reality of it is this: you and yours will be raped, robbed, and terrorized six ways from Saturday until the influence of the jew is forcibly erased. The root of it, of course, is that our ancestors were terminally stupid enough, well, to not liquidate those demons long ago, but then to give control over the systems of credit and currency to the most abjectly wicked shit wads ever squeezed from Satan’s asshole. While the jew controls “money” and “banking”, they control everything….and you and yours are f*cked into oblivion.
in Jew World Order everything is turned .
white jew is black, antiterror developes
into terror . deburocraty developes into
more ecological burocratism,
nice how satan JHWH turns everything
humans invent into the opposite .
(Teslas inventions best example)
BACK TO STONEAGE !
@COSA Lavatore
re “Doesnt look like a girls school…”
Not all girls schools look like the one in your coloring-book
The Collective West, U.S., EU, and NATO, has morphed into a terrorist network
…directed first & foremost by the pUKe Kay
@adderblack: it was not an Amish shooter who killed the Amish schoolkids. It was a married white guy from a nearby city. He gave people fake stories (thoroughly investigated) about how he had molested other women and wanted to molest the schoolgirls. Yet, although they did not resist his attack, he didn’t even try to molest them, just shot them. He had to have had serial killer wannabe-type sexual hang-ups. This psycho had had nothing to do with the Amish, apart from resenting their wholesome existence.
adderblack @ wrong since the collapse of comunism in the early 90s
they threw out the jewish mafia
rothschild told tony blair bring them to the UK
where they still commit their crimes
but so many documents were released some cast grave doubt on the holocaust 6 million jews thing
they were D noticed for the UK
intel spy write nigel west was forbidden to research speak or write about it
This “neo-knott-Z” bit is off putting. Jews run the Ukraine show, but they fix their boy there up with “nazi” enforcers, and yada, yada, yada? Sorry.
The collective west is only showing what it always has been.
And since one of the stated goals of the EU always was and still is “to keep Germany down”, we can say that the common west has “shared values” and common goals.
When and where is it all going to end?
What’s just as horrifying is Russia’s response. One thing we should all be concerned about is how we feel about the family and friends of the innocent victims of all these crimes in all the conflicts and terror wars being waged anywhere on anyone. The perpetrators of these crimes have no shame. They are all the spawn of the evil that is happening here and everywhere on a daily basis.