Ukraine receives first batch of HIMARS from U.S.

“HIMARS have arrived to Ukraine. Thank you to my U.S. colleague and friend Secretary Austin for these powerful tools! Summer will be hot for Russian occupiers. And the last one for some of them,” Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov wrote on Twitter.

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Some in Congress are now openly calling for the breakup of Russia.

Yesterday, the US government’s Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, or Helsinki Commission, held a Congressional briefing titled "Decolonizing Russia". Representative Steve Cohen (D-TN) opened up the presentation, which may be the first in a series, by claiming that Russians “have in essence colonized their own country,” arguing that Russia is “not a strict nation, in the sense that we’ve known in the past.”

Present at the meeting was also Casey Michel, who last month authored a piece in The Atlantic titled "Decolonize Russia" and which seems to have been the impetus for the briefing. According to Michel, decolonizing Russia is not solely about "partitioning" and "dismembering" the Russian Federation, but about a supposed authentic commitment to "anti-imperialism."

Which countries would the proponents of this idea like to carve out of Russia? The meeting mentioned Chechnya, Tatarstan, Dagestan, and Circassia. Siberia is to be divided into several Republics.

As we've highlighted in a previous post, some voices in the US/NATO camp have adopted a pro-Balkanization line with respect to the Russian Federation, just as the West sought the breakup of Yugoslavia some 30 years ago. What differs today is the openness with which this is advocated. The language of "decolonization" smudges over what are, in effect, old neo-conservative talking points and foreign policy positions. It's "woke"/"intersectional" neo-conservatism.

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Africans praise Russia, say Ukraine “sold out to the West.”

Speaking to CNN, influential MK veteran Obbey Mabena referred to the Russians as the first white people “who treated us as equal beings.”

“Russia is our friend. Our friend’s enemy is our enemy,” he summed up.

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Ukraine releases first footage of U.S.-supplied HIMARS firing on Russian positions.

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Terminal Tower in downtown Cleveland unexpectedly lights up in colors of the Russian flag.

The photo was taken by one of our editors on Friday night.

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There is no rational path to a victory for Ukraine, says Lt. Col. Daniel Davis.

“Russia is methodically moving through and destroying the Ukrainian armed forces in the Donbas. More than capturing territory, they’re destroying their ability to defend the country anywhere else,” Davis noted.

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Ukraine has lost the war and the Western sanctions against Russia have failed, says retired U.S. Army colonel and Virginia politician Richard Black.

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Lavrov compares the West’s policy towards Moscow with that of Hitler, says the EU and NATO are building a coalition for war with Russia.

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A Russian outpost in Izyum, Kharkov Oblast, was reportedly among the first hit by the U.S.-supplied HIMARS that had recently made their debut on the Ukrainian battlefield.

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Not a U.S. proxy war? Ukraine is crawling with special forces and CIA agents, NYT reveals.

In an article titled "Commando Network Coordinates Flow of Weapons in Ukraine," anonymous western officials admit that the U.S. is operating “a stealthy network of commandos and spies,” to provide Ukraine with weapons, intelligence and training.

Also working alongside the Americans inside Ukraine are a few dozen commandos from other NATO countries, including Britain, France, Canada and Lithuania.

But the scope of the operation extends far beyond the territory of Ukraine, with much of the activities taking place at bases in Germany, France and Britain.

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Americans must embrace the Ukraine war as their own and do more to defeat Russia, says Washington Post columnist Max Boot.

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Boris Johnson tells Americans that high inflation and the billions of dollars Biden is spending on Ukraine is “a price worth paying” for defending democracy and freedom in other countries.

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J.K. Rowling pranked by Russians impersonating Zelensky on Zoom.

During the call, Rowling appeared to support the idea of canceling Russian culture, doing a book reading for Ukrainian nationalists, and using her children's charity money to buy missiles on which they'd write Avada Kedavra before firing them into the Donbas.

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Argentina and Iran apply to join BRICS as the group sets course to counterbalance the G7.

BRICS is currently comprised of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. Together these countries account for an estimated total population of about 3.21 billion.

The G7 is made up of the US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the UK.

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White House officials are losing confidence that Ukraine will ever be able to take back the land it has lost to Russia.

From CNN:

Advisers to President Joe Biden have begun debating internally how and whether Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should shift his definition of a Ukrainian "victory" — adjusting for the possibility that his country has shrunk irreversibly.

The growing pessimism comes as Biden is meeting with US allies in Europe, where he will try to convey strength and optimism about the trajectory of the war as he rallies leaders to stay committed to arming and supporting Ukraine amid the brutal fight.

The mood has shifted over the last several weeks, though, as Ukraine has struggled to repel Russia's advances in the Donbas and has suffered staggering troop losses, reaching as many as 100 soldiers per day. Ukrainian forces are also burning through their equipment and ammunition faster than the West can provide and train them on new, NATO-standard weapons systems.

A US military official and a source familiar with Western intelligence agreed it was unlikely that Ukraine would be able to mass the force necessary to reclaim all of the territory lost to Russia during the fighting

Internally, there is a sense among some in the Biden administration that Zelensky will need to start moderating expectations for what Ukrainian forces can realistically achieve.

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Zelensky asks the U.S. to recognize Russia as a terrorist state, following what he calls a “calculated strike” on a shopping mall in Kremenchuk.

“The Russian state has become the largest terrorist organization in the world. And this is a fact. And this must be a legal fact. And everyone in the world must know that buying or transporting Russian oil, maintaining contacts with Russian banks, paying taxes and customs duties to the Russian state means giving money to terrorists,” said the Ukrainian president in his nightly video address.

Russia has denied targeting the mall, saying that it struck a nearby industrial facility used to store Western-supplied munitions. According to the Russian version of events, the shopping center was closed at the time of the attack and burned down due to a subsequent fire that erupted and spread from the plant.

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Turkey drops its opposition to Finland and Sweden joining NATO, paving the way for the bloc’s further expansion along the Russian border.

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❗️NATO declares Russia as the "most significant and direct threat" to the bloc.

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Russian forces withdraw from Snake Island after Ukraine launches massive missile and artillery strikes.

The Russian Ministry of Defense said the decision to leave is another “gesture of goodwill” towards Ukraine. The last time Russia demonstrated such “goodwill” was in late March, when it rapidly retreated from the Kyiv, Chernihiv, and Sumy regions.

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The wife of a Ukrainian member of parliament was caught crossing the border to Hungary with 20 million USD and 1.3 million Euros in Cash.

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British business magnate and ex-F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone says he’d “take a bullet” for Vladimir Putin.

During an interview on Good Morning Britain, Ecclestone blamed Zelensky for the Ukraine war and characterized Putin as a “first-class person” driven by Russia’s interests.

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