Strategic Review – June 26, 2026
This week marked 85 years since Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in the greatest crime of aggression in human history. This week, too, German panzers with their distinctive Iron Cross insignia were rolling towards Russia’s border, along with other NATO partners in a military exercise cynically misnamed Operation Freedom Shield.
It is truly shocking how history on such a criminal scale is being repeated, brazenly and seemingly with public insouciance.
On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany launched the biggest military invasion ever recorded in history. Operation Barbarossa deployed three million German troops along with units from allied countries. The Blitzkrieg opened the largest theater of World War II, known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War. At least 27 million citizens of the Soviet Union were killed, most of them civilians.
Grainy footage from the time shows line after line of people being shot and dumped in mass graves. In one notorious atrocity, in September 1941, over 33,000 civilians were executed in just two days at a ravine in Babi Yar, near Kiev.
Four years later, the Soviet Red Army fought the Nazi Wehrmacht all the way back to final defeat in Berlin.
Every Russian family was traumatized by the horror and inhumane suffering. The memory of the calamity remains seared in the nation’s consciousness. The Nazi invasion was carried out as a war of annihilation in which there was no mercy for men, women, and children. The Final Solution involved the systematic extermination of Slavs, Jews, Communists, and Roma and others considered Untermenschen (Subhuman) by Nazi racial ideology. The German Wehrmacht and Einsatzgruppen death squads were assisted by fascist auxiliaries in Lithuania, the other Baltic states, and Ukraine.
Eighty-five years later to the day, on June 22, 2026, the German army-led NATO exercises began in Lithuania. The very location of the NATO military maneuvers this week, Probradė, about 15 kilometers from the Belarus border, was the scene of massacres by the Nazis and their proxies.
The echo of Operation Barbarossa is odiously loud and clear. German Minister of Defense [sic], Boris Pistorius, officiated at the NATO military exercises this week. There was no shame or embarrassed commentary in Western media.
There is no way that the date was a foolish oversight. It was a deliberate provocation. German militarism is on the march again and is verbally aimed at Russia. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has declared the ambition of making Germany the biggest military power in Europe. NATO commanders talk glibly about striking Russian territory with long-range missiles and drones.
As in WWII, Lithuania, the Baltic states, and Ukraine are serving as the proxies for aggression against Russia.
In recent years, these countries have reawakened fascist tendencies by venerating military collaborators with Nazi Germany. Monuments dedicated to Waffen SS brigades have been unveiled in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Ukraine. Only last month, a notorious Ukrainian Nazi wartime leader, Andrey Melnyk, was given an official reburial in Kiev with full state honors attended by the puppet president, Vladimir Zelensky. This has led to a bitter row with Poland because Melnyk and his Ukrainian paramilitaries were responsible for murdering over 100,000 Poles. Notably, the European capitals and NATO are trying to cover up the controversy because it exposes the true, ugly nature of the Kiev regime. If the regime is exposed, then what does that say about NATO and the EU? It would demolish their claims about “defending Ukrainian democracy” from Russia and how Ukraine is supposedly a bulwark for the rest of Europe.
The glorification of Ukrainian collaborators is not a marginal, random occurrence. There is a wider tendency right across Europe among the political class to rewrite the history of the Second World War and whitewash the monstrous aggression against the Soviet Union. This effort is due to the contemporary resurrection of Russophobia that underpins the policy of the EU and NATO. The American and European leaders, known as the Collective West, are driven by the strategic objective of defeating Russia to exploit its vast natural resources. It is the same objective that drove Nazi Germany and its European accomplices.
As in 1941, today NATO propaganda inverts reality by accusing Russia of posing an imminent threat that must be defended against. All of Europe is being mobilized and militarized, with warnings of preparation for war with Russia. The drums of war are beaten with a frenzy. European societies are being destroyed by the relentless militarism, the wasting of economies, and obsessive hostility towards Russia.
NATO, which was formed in 1949, is carrying on where Nazi Germany failed. The same propaganda tropes are invoked to portray Russians as barbarians who must be vanquished for the sake of peace and security.
American, British, German, French, and other NATO missiles and drones are striking deep inside Russia, killing civilians and destroying vital infrastructure. As in Operation Barbarossa, the enemy is targeting Moscow.
It is incredible that, within living memory, the horrendous crimes of Nazi Germany are being repeated against the Russian people.
It is incredible, too, how barefaced the repetition of history is conducted.
How could such an outrage be perpetrated? This is due to the propaganda power of the Western corporate-controlled news media.
War against Russia is sold as peace. Aggression is sold as defense. This same media cover up the rehabilitation of Nazis in Ukraine and the Baltic states.
When German tanks and artillery emblazoned with the Iron Cross are rolling towards Russia’s borders, the Western public should be deeply alarmed about what is unfolding. But tragically, not enough people are aware of the danger because the propaganda system known as the news media has lied so systematically. The truth is, European and American leaders are courting a world war that will result in millions of deaths.
Nazi Germany’s ambitions of conquering Russia were born from imperialist aims, supremacist ideology, and propaganda lies. Western imperialism and its NATO weapons, proxies, and media are at it again.
this article is totally biased it hasa communist stance
Stalins forces were amassing at the border but the germans pipped them to the post and chased them back deep into russia
most russians and certainly the ukrainians saw germany as a saviour from stalin and the jews
there is a saying in the intel world
that when a plan works the temptation is to keep using it
The jews in france sponsored King Harolds half brother Tostiq
to stagea rebellion in the north of england, Harolds army marched north and beat them
while duke william of normandy invaded and had time to build reinforement positions
Harolsa army marched back non stop to find the tostiq battle was a dicersion
and williams army was now well dug in
similarly the russians kept moving further and further into rusia with the germany army behind
this left a huge open space for the british to abandon their treaties with germany and attack them
Hitler was forced into the war by rothschild interested
and stupidly we got involved
> Hitler may be dead but elements in the modern Western alliance have not given up on the idea conquering Russia. Will it prove just as deadly for NATO?
Putin won’t be ordered to attack you until you’re “ready”. You don’t have the armies or the bombs to slaughter each other yet. And you won’t have until 2030.
Putin ain’t even all-out attacking the jewkraine yet, in order to keep it bubbling whilst you go about getting ready.
I can’t wait to see all the “parents” fake crying when their sons are killed in the war. They’ll be so “proud” when their daughters “marry” ragheads and become one of four.
THE REASON FOR THE
ATTACK ACCORDING
TO EUSTACE MULLINS
THEIR WAS A RAPID
INCREASE IN THE
PRODUCTION OF TANKS
HELPED BY AMERICA
GERMANY FEARED THIS
MASSIVE PRODUCTION
AND FEARED WHAT
WOULD HAPPEN
AGAINST SUCH AN
ARMY OF TANKS,
THAT’S WHY THEY
WENT INTO RUSSIA,
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What a lying piece of crap.
1. 1941, Stalin broke the agreement with Germany by invading Finland.
2. 1941, Stalin had already massed an army on the borders of the Reich not only to attack Germany but also to conquer all of Europe.
3. Germany’s pre-emptive strike ( which was delayed by the war monger Churchill’s order to INVADE – yes – INVADE Greece, saved Western Europe. The Waffen SS was therefore redirected to stop the British – which they did whereupon they then attacked the massed Soviet formations on their borders,
4. There were no plans to conquer Russia. Indeed many people welcomed the German army. This is simply a fact as specified by the ENGLISHMAN – yes – ENGISHMAN in his series available here: https://thegreateststorynevertold.tv/
5. As for the conscripted Ukrainians, why, if they are “nazis” would they fight for a jew – Zelensky???
Total and utter crap that lends itself to the “nazi holohoax” which has given the jews carte blanche to commit open genocide in Occupied Palestine and to form fifth columns in all of our countries in order to facilitate the mass invasion of Europe with the turd world.
‘This week marked 85 years since Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in the greatest crime of aggression in human history.’
Shame on STRATEGIC REVIEW for this childish opening! Does its writer not know that Stalin’s Soviet Union was the greatest murderer of its own population? Does he not know that all of Europe was living in fear of the Red Terror? And really, how silly is it to associate the subject of the dirty, thieving little Zelenskiy regime and its ‘Nazis’ with Hitler’s invasion of the brutal Stalinist Soviet Union?
BTW: Putin wholeheartedly commemorates the Russian fighters of WWI. For him, like to pretty much all Russians, they fought the Great Patriotic War: Russia was invaded; Russians, they defended the Motherland!
(This, however, is a Russian spin on patriotism: Never mind that Stalin’s Soviet soldiers could do nothing but fight: evasion of service earned them Stalin’s bullet in the head.)
Nazi! Nazi! Nazi! Nazi! Nazi! Nazi! Nazi! Nazi! Nazi! Nazi! Nazi! Nazi! Nazi! 🤣
Only problem is, idiot author of article omits the fact that Russia invaded Ukraine, thus starting this war. Also the idiot doesn’t realize Germany is no longer governed by Nazis but by the Moses Mafia. This current NATO vs. Russia ‘war’ is simply a coordinated staged operation to ice millions of whites. IF it was real Russia would have overran/conquered Ukraine within a month or two after their invasion. 10 to 1 ‘Strategic Review’ is a CIA-KGB-MI5 enterprise.
As you know very well, the Nazis’ attack on Russia was preemptive.
Why don’t you point the finger at today’s global villains? Is Truthseeker also controlled by the Jews?Americans and Israelis are killing people everywhere without any preventive justification.
Greetings from Germany
What Jew(s) were responsible for this complete and utter tabloid of lies? Anyone with a modicum of knowledge knows the German invasion of the Soviet Union was a preemptive move to forestall a planned Soviet invasion of Western Europe by an army and air force much larger than Germany had. Initial German success was possible due to Soviet readiness for an OFFENSIVE invasion that caught them by surprise.
First of all let’s define the word Nazism. A commentator named ‘True Blue’ somewhere came up with this pearl: “This cartoonish ‘Nazism’ is a creation of ((theirs)) just as the entire history of Germany and the hollow hoax was. Lies, fictitious balderdash and projection of their own secret desires to exterminate or enslave every person on earth not ‘chosen’ by their bloodthirsty child raping ‘God’.” Guys like Makow take the above to claim “Jews created Nazism,” the tricky thing is he is not wrong. The Jew created cartoonish Nazism, a fallacious myth ironically inspired in Soviet Russia’s terror regime. German soldiers were told they were defending civilization against barbaric Jewish Bolshevism. They were told Bolshevism is bad for workers. All true.
Germans were the good guys in WW2, Fascism is actually a good thing compared to zio-commie political occupation. Compare Franco’s Spain with today’s European shit show. “Bad Nazis” is a mental paradigm imprinted in one’s mind. We need to toss it aside in order to comprehend factual reality.
That said, Russia has been attacked by the same power that destroyed Germany – Jewish power (aka Satan’s Synagogue). Russians have exorcised their demons now they are the good guys. USA, EU, Ukraine, UK plus Commonwealth nations are the baddies – a Union of Soviet states. The scum are eager to implement Stalinist war policies on its captured population. Ukrainians are already there, unfortunately.
Babi Yar is more Soviet B.S. , and this article is comparing then with now………not the same thing.
there are even intelectual idiots believing
history is not repeating . I am no intelectual idiot
+ say that always history repeats itself most always .
and why ? because from generation to generation
they always believe the history lies of the “victorious”.
so they stumble from generation to generation again
into lies, jew manipulations + deceptions .
WESTERN WORLD GO ON INTO YOUR GRAVE !
No matter how crushing the defeat, if you leave your enemy alive, they will eventually come back at you. They must be kicking themselves in the Kremlin for not properly dealing with the problem in 1945.
Stalin was gulled by the Molotov-Ribbentrop non-aggression pact. Putin was gulled by the Minsk Accords, then Anchorage. No deal, no treaty, no ‘understanding’ means a damn in London, Paris or Berlin.
The only thing the West understands is ruthless force, enthusiastically and somewhat indiscriminately applied.
Anonymous = Commie pretending to be ‘white nationalist’
putin is a eurasian commie..russia is ruled by Moses Mafia..lets hope Azov is icing a lot of commies
All these ‘strategic review’ articles sound as if they’ve been composed by AI aka Artificial Israeli
@fullerangus
What you say is confirmed in the book “The Icebreaker” from Soviet general and book author Victor Suvorov.
It seems that operation Barbarossa blocked in the last minute a massive Soviet invasion.
Btw that invasion wouldn’t have stopped in Germany, and so (it seems) operation Barbarossa saved all of Europe. Of course European gratitude never materialized.
This article merely rehashes the same old lies by people still fighting WW2.
As the other posters have stated, the attack was strictly preemptive and in response to several things. Firstly, Stalin’s desire to mount a new campaign against Finland. Secondly, Stalin’s desire to establish a protectorate over Bulgaria in order to threaten German oil supplies in Rumania. Thirdly, there was Stalin’s request for a naval base in the Bosporus.
All of these demands, made by Molotov when he visited Germany in November 1940, indicated that the Soviet Union still remained a threat to continental Europe. Added to that was Stalin’s seizure of the Baltic States and his orders to drive out the German speaking natives who had lived there for centuries. While Stalin’s seizure of Bessarabia was previously agreed upon with Germany, the USSR also seized Bukovina which was not in the agreement.
German intelligence also had clear indications of a Soviet buildup of offensive troop deployments and weaponry in the Bialystok salient, another clear threat to continental Europe. Rather than wait for the inevitable Soviet steamroller, Hitler had no choice but to attack first.
Of course the history books still employ the tired old narrative that Hitler was ‘mad’ and determined to ‘conquer the world’ which is complete nonsense. Plus they conveniently overlook the fact that he was trying to overthrow the Stalin regime, one of the cruelest, murderous and inhumane in all modern history, the bloody Stalin affectionately called ‘Uncle Joe’ by the naive, wealthy and sheltered Franklin Roosevelt.
Nazi Germany is active, alive and very well in today’s Berlin – parading as Zionist communists that do not allow any opposition. NAtional Zionism (Nazism) was/is the opposite of German National Socialism. Just ask Makow and the other TTS experts who write articles, they tell you the opposite.
tony o neil and a couple of other comments here just excellent
and so refreshing
there is a saying if you remember the 1960s you were not there
i am just about to have my 89 birthday i was there when the war was on
British traitors working for rothschild gave secret wartime info
to stalin
this helped them win
as a german who has understood history not to
make the same mistakes again I wish that Putin
reaches out his missiles against Berlin, London,
Bruxeles, Paris to make those warmongers teach
lessons ! what the fuck have we to mingle into
JEWSA iniciated warmongering with Ukraine +Russia ?
it always belonged to the russian empire . only Chrustchev
gave more autonomy to Ukraine in regard that he himself
was a born ukrainian russian . so keeping the ukranazis
quite for a while . seems was his mistake . nazi snake,
commi snake, jew snake, islam snake never dies . always
sharpening their poison teeth
This politician and country was good bad good bad good bad good bad good bad but with that other place it was the other way round
jewSA started it all ! not to forget . everywhere where
the jewSA wants start a war looks for oposing tribes
against the ruling majority with help of CIA/Mossad/MI6 :
Mushahidin in Afganistan, Peshmerga Kurds in Iran,
southSudanese in the swamps against northSudanese,
mountainHMong + katholic soutvietnamese in Nam,
rightist military in south + centralamerica, Panamese
separatists against Colombia for Tedis canal, now
Ukraine for Khasars second Israhell + for russias
raw materials .