GUSNOTE: IN THE ARTICLE BELOW, THE "GRANDDAUGHTER"  OF NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV MAKES A MAJOR MISTAKE AND A PLETHORA OF SMALLER ONES. THESE SHOWS THAT SHE HAS NOT UNDERSTOOD HOW THE WEST HAS PROVOKED RUSSIA OR SHE IS A PROPAGANDIST FOR THE WEST [WHICH SHE IS FOR A REASON MENTIONED LATER ON HERE].

HER MAIN MISTAKE IS TO QUOTE JOE BIDEN's UNDERSTANDING OF VLADIMIR PUTIN. BIDEN WAS THE US PRESIDENT WHOSE ADMINISTRATION ORDERED THE BIGGEST ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER EVER: THE DESTRUCTION OF THE NORDSEA PIPELINES. JOE BIDEN IS A TWO FACED LIAR, AS CORRUPT AS TRUMP IN HIS ACTIONS, INCLUDING HIS DEALINGS WITH BURISMA VIA HIS SON, BUT MORE DECEITFUL IN HIS INTENTIONS. FOR INTENTS AND PURPOSES, ALL THE AMERICAN ADMINISTRATIONS HAVE BEEN CORRUPT AND HEGEMONIC.

TRUMP'S INTENTIONS ARE SEEMINGLY ALL OVER THE PLACE, YET HE IS FAR MORE PROFITABLE FOR HIS OWN COFFERS. MEANWHILE, TRUMP, IN HIS OWN STYLE OF FLATTERY AND THREATS, PURSUES THE SAME FOREIGN POLICIES STARTED IN 1917 BY THE USA BOFFINS: DESTROY RUSSIA. THIS IS WHAT PUTIN IS FIGHTING.

PUTIN, WHO STILL ENJOYS A MASSIVE SUPPORT, WAY ABOVE THE 66.6 PER CENT "BYZANTINE RATIO", WOULD HAVE KNOWN THAT THE ALASKA MEETING WITH TRUM WAS A DECEITFUL CROCK, BUT PUTIN PLAYED THE GAME WITH A SHOW OF STRENGTH. OF THE TEN PER CENT APPROVAL LOST BY PUTIN [LOST ACCORDING TO NINA, MORE THAN HALF OF THE PEOPLE ARE DEMANDING A MORE AGGRESSIVE WINNING WAR, REGARDLESS OF UKRAINIAN CIVILIAN CASUALTIES. TRUMP IS THE ONE WHO HAS TO CEMENT HIS GRIP ON POWER AND WE CAN SEE ALREADY THE PROOF. ALL HIS ADMINISTRATION MONKEYS, FROM RUBIO AND HEGSETH, INCLUDING TRUMP HIMSELF, ARE WAVING THE REDS UNDER THE BED PLACARD. THE DEMOCRATS ARE "COMMUNISTS", DANGEROUS SOCIALISTS WHO WILL DESTROY THE AMERICAN FREEDOM TO DO SHIT. 

AS WELL NINA KHRUSHCHEVA DOES NOT MENTION HOW MUCH THE WEST IS SUPPORTING UKRAINE IN FIGHTING RUSSIA — PROVIDING THE MISSILES, THE FOREIGN CREWS AND THE LOGISTICS AGAINST RUSSIA. NOR DOES SHE MENTION THAT RUSSIA IS SLOWLY WALKING TOWARD A FULL-VICTORY DESPITE "PUTIN'S RESTRAINT".

ONE HAS TO REMEMBER THAT NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV [NINA'S GRANDFATHER] WAS HALF-UKRAINIAN AND WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR "GIFTING" CRIMEA TO UKRAINE IN 1954. STALIN HAD ADDED THE RUSSIAN DONBASS TO UKRAINE IN ORDER TO CONTROL THE NATIONALISTS SENTIMENTS OF THE WESTERN UKRAINIANS. THESE SENTIMENTS MESHED WITH THE GERMAN NAZI INVASION OF 1941.

THE WESTERN UKRAINIANS JOINED THE NAZIS TO MASSACRE JEWS, POLES AND RUSSIANS DURING WW2. THE WESTERN UKRAINIANS STILL VENERATE THE MURDERERS. THIS IS A SORE POINT FOR THE POLISH PEOPLE WHO AFTER WW2 LOST SOME TERRITORIES TO "UKRAINE". 

SO FAR THE DEATH RATIO — WHICH OF COURSE THE LAUGHING JACKASSES OF THE WEST DO NOT MENTION — IS ONE RUSSIAN FOR 32 UKRAINIAN SOLDIERS.

I SAY LAUGHING JACKASSES OF THE WEST BECAUSE EVERY WESTERN MEDIA SHOWING YET ANOTHER VISIT BY "MI-6 AGENT" JEWISH NAZI ZELENSKY TO ANOTHER EUROPEAN CAPITAL — BE IT PARIS, LONDON OR WOOPWOOP — THE CROWD OF DELUDED PRESIDENTS, PRIME MINISTERS AND MINISTERS OF THE EUROPEAN "COALITION OF THE WILLING" ARE LAUGHING THEIR HEADS OFF LIKE A BUNCH OF KISSING IDIOTS. MEANWHILE, YESTERDAY, THE UKRAINIAN MILITARY LOST ANOTHER 1400 TROOPS. DEAD. GONE. CARRY ON LAUGHING AND KISSING. HISTORY HAS SHOWN THAT RUSSIA CAN GET WHAT IT WANTS. PUTIN IS FAR MORE CLEVER THAN ALL THE WESTERN HEAD OF STATES COMBINED AND HE HAS SUPPORT FROM OTHER COUNTRIES ON THE PLANET. THE MAIN ONE BEING THE "BETE NOIRE" OF AMERICA: CHINA. AND BRICS.

SO:

MAKE A DEAL PRONTO BEFORE THE SHIT (WW3) HITS THE FAN:

NO NATO IN "UKRAINE" (WHAT'S LEFT OF IT)

THE DONBASS REPUBLICS ARE NOW BACK IN THE RUSSIAN FOLD — AS THEY USED TO BE PRIOR 1922. THE RUSSIANS WON'T ABANDON THESE AGAIN.

THESE WILL ALSO INCLUDE ODESSA, KHERSON AND KHARKIV.....

CRIMEA IS RUSSIAN — AS IT USED TO BE PRIOR 1954

TRANSNISTRIA TO BE PART OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION.

RESTORE THE RIGHTS OF THE RUSSIAN SPEAKING PEOPLE OF "UKRAINE" (WHAT'S LEFT OF IT)

RESTITUTE THE ORTHODOX CHURCH PROPERTIES AND RIGHTS

RELEASE THE OPPOSITION MEMBERS FROM PRISON

A MEMORANDUM OF NON-AGGRESSION BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE USA.

A MEMORANDUM OF NON-AGGRESSION BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE EU.....

EASY.

THE WEST KNOWS IT.

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HERE IS NINA:

Russia is feeling the cost of the war, but Putin’s authority rests on victory, force and fear. Lasting peace would require a political reckoning.

Nina L. Khrushcheva

Karl Marx once wrote that theory becomes a material force the moment it grips the masses. Soviet leaders took that line and ran with it – straight into catastrophe – again and again. Vladimir Lenin turned it into a rationale for revolution, while Joseph Stalin used it as a licence to starve and work millions of people to death in pursuit of rapid industrialisation and a “bright future” that never arrived. Nikita Khrushchev, for his part, invoked it to legitimise de-Stalinisation in 1956, as though history could simply be ordered onto a different path.

While the objectives changed, the governing logic remained the same. The Kremlin first decides what reality ought to be, then forces people to conform to its vision, no matter the cost. Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine is the latest chapter in that story, and this summer, the costs are becoming impossible to ignore.

Over the past four years, Ukraine has become remarkably adept at making Russians feel the impact of a war they were never supposed to experience. When Putin launched his “special military operation” in February 2022, Russians were promised a short, victorious campaign that would leave their daily lives untouched. Instead, Ukrainian drones now reach deep into Russian territory, striking oil refineries, factories, and energy infrastructure with increasing regularity.

The cracks are beginning to show: a budget deficit of more than six trillion rubles (US$83.5 bn), soaring inflation and petrol lines stretching along roadsides from Moscow to Vladivostok. Putin himself watched smoke rise over St Petersburg during his beloved economic forum – the annual event where he eagerly showcases Russia’s global relevance.

Ukraine’s government has repeatedly proposed an energy truce: it will stop striking refineries if Russia stops bombing Ukrainian energy infrastructure. Zelensky has framed the relentless strikes on what he calls the “island of Moscow” as a way of pressuring Putin toward peace. The logic seems straightforward: public disillusionment and rising costs create a clear incentive to de-escalate. By every conventional measure, this is how wars are supposed to end.

The problem is that Putin operates according to a different logic. He did not invade Ukraine to solve a problem but to prove that he could force Zelensky and the west to recognise Russia’s power on his terms. For Ukraine, the war is about survival; for Putin, it is about commanding respect and never appearing weak.

This mindset has deep historical roots. When the Nazis captured Stalin’s son Yakov in 1941, they twice offered to exchange him, first for Hitler’s captured nephew and later for German Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus. Stalin refused both times, delivering the infamous line: “I won’t trade a Marshal for a Lieutenant”.

Stalin’s “Not One Step Back” order became the blueprint for Soviet – and now Russian – inflexibility. Fuel shortages, high prices, and staggeringly high casualties are not crises in Putin’s eyes. Rather, they are the price of victory.

Back in 2022, then-US President Joe Biden described Putin as a “rational actor” who had “miscalculated significantly” by invading Ukraine. Four years later, even as the war reaches Russian soil, nothing fundamental has changed about how Putin operates. If anything, the conflict has only confirmed the second half of Biden’s assessment.

One development does stand out. Putin rarely feels the need to explain himself when his policies become unpopular. Nowadays, with his approval rating having fallen from 84 per cent to 74 per cent since January – a meaningful decline in a country where criticising the president can get you arrested – he won’t shut up. In just the past couple of months, Putin has delivered a keynote at the St Petersburg economic forum, sat for a lengthy interview with Kremlin propagandist Pavel Zarubin, and made a rare front-line appearance in military fatigues to celebrate the claimed capture of the Donbas town of Kostyantynivka.

Each appearance served the same purpose: to signal that the war is non-negotiable and remains the Kremlin’s overriding priority, having become the organising principle of Putin’s regime. If more soldiers are needed, more soldiers will be sent. If more missiles are required, they will be launched. None of it depends on public opinion, casualty counts or petrol station lines.

Putin launched his war in Ukraine to project strength. Ending it under pressure would mean doing so from a position of weakness. For a leader whose authority rests on force and fear, such an outcome would pose an existential threat.

The challenge, however, extends beyond Putin’s political survival. Real peace would require an entirely different Russia: one that provides its returning soldiers with real answers, offers something approaching an explanation (if not an apology), pays reparations to Ukraine and reopens itself to the world economically and diplomatically.

Instead, the Kremlin has spent the past four years moving in the opposite direction, passing hundreds of restrictive laws that regulate everything from business and education to what Russians are allowed to read, write, and watch. This is not a government that can pivot toward openness, even if it wanted to. Breaking with Putinism would require a political reckoning on the scale of Khrushchev’s 1956 denunciation of Stalin’s cult of personality. To end the war, in other words, the Putin regime would have to stop being the Putin regime.

Without such a political reckoning, only one realistic opportunity for a negotiated settlement remains: December’s G20 summit in Miami. Putin may still be banking on his rapport with Trump to broker some kind of resolution. But if the United States snubs him the way it did when Putin offered to help mediate the Iran crisis, Russia may well turn to what might be called the “nuclear option” – an extreme form of escalation – to force peace on its own terms.

For Putin, victory is the entire purpose of the war in Ukraine. Anything less would expose the enormous human and economic sacrifices he has demanded of Russians as pointless, leaving him with a defeat he won’t and can’t accept.

https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/07/for-putin-anything-short-of-victory-is-defeat/

YES THE WEST IS LOSING IN UKRAINE AND THE WEST DOES NOT WANT TO ACCEPT DEFEAT.

I REPEAT:

MAKE A DEAL PRONTO BEFORE THE SHIT (WW3) HITS THE FAN:

NO NATO IN "UKRAINE" (WHAT'S LEFT OF IT)

THE DONBASS REPUBLICS ARE NOW BACK IN THE RUSSIAN FOLD — AS THEY USED TO BE PRIOR 1922. THE RUSSIANS WON'T ABANDON THESE AGAIN.

THESE WILL ALSO INCLUDE ODESSA, KHERSON AND KHARKIV.....

CRIMEA IS RUSSIAN — AS IT USED TO BE PRIOR 1954

TRANSNISTRIA TO BE PART OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION.

RESTORE THE RIGHTS OF THE RUSSIAN SPEAKING PEOPLE OF "UKRAINE" (WHAT'S LEFT OF IT)

RESTITUTE THE ORTHODOX CHURCH PROPERTIES AND RIGHTS

RELEASE THE OPPOSITION MEMBERS FROM PRISON

A MEMORANDUM OF NON-AGGRESSION BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE USA.

A MEMORANDUM OF NON-AGGRESSION BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE EU.....

EASY.

THE WEST KNOWS IT.

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