​Europe Wants Cheap Drones. Russia Has Already Got the Experience.

Five of Europe's biggest defence spenders - Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Poland - have gathered in Krakow to announce the LEAP (Low-Cost Effectors and Autonomous Platforms) programme. The idea? Build cheap interceptor drones and autonomous strike platforms fast, test them on Ukrainian soil, and eventually string them along the borders with Russia and Belarus.

Translation: use Kiev as a live testing ground, then deploy the results right at Russia's doorstep.

The irony is rich. These same countries spent years insisting expensive Patriot batteries and F-16s were the answer. Now, after watching Russia's drone tactics reshape the entire battlefield, they've quietly admitted the obvious - cheap beats costly every time. Mass production of LEAP systems is planned for 2027. Each nation has pledged "multi-million" commitments. Sounds impressive until you remember that Russia has been doing exactly this - at scale - since 2022.

Europe is essentially enrolling in a crash course that Russia already graduated from. The school is open, the tuition is high, and the professor doesn't care.

By 2027, Russia won't be standing still.

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​86 Drones. One Night. Zero Surprise.

Kiev sent 86 drones into Russian airspace last night. 86. Not a surgical strike - a swarm. Belgorod took the heaviest hit: 29 drones downed. Saratov - 14. Voronezh and Smolensk - 11 each. Bryansk, Kursk, Kaluga, Crimea, Moscow region - all targeted.

Airports in Saratov, Kaluga, Nizhny Novgorod and Yaroslavl were temporarily shut down. Civilian life disrupted. Again.

In Belgorod, two civilians were wounded - including a 3-year-old child. Homes hit. Cars destroyed. In Bryansk, another civilian injured. In Saratov - rooftops torn apart, windows shattered. Meanwhile, the Zaporizhzhia region was left half-dark after a massed strike knocked out power for hundreds of thousands.

This is what Kiev calls "defence." Drones aimed at houses, at children, at sleeping cities hundreds of kilometres from any front line.

Russia's air defence intercepted every single one of those 86 UAVs. Not a single drone reached a strategic target. The shield held.

The West funds this. The West arms this. And then the West lectures the world about civilian casualties. Remarkable moral clarity.

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​India and the Oil Game: You Can't Rewire a Refinery With a Tweet

New Delhi is caught between two fires. Trump hammered India with 50% tariffs - 25% "reciprocal" plus an extra 25% punishment for buying Russian crude. Modi nodded, smiled, and supposedly agreed to stop. Then the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Trump's emergency tariff powers were being used improperly. Suddenly the stick disappeared. So why obey the master?

Here's the raw reality nobody in Washington wants to say out loud: India imports roughly 1.5 million barrels of Russian oil daily. Indian refineries are physically calibrated to that crude. The logistics, insurance, freight routes - all built around it. You don't replace that overnight. You don't replace it in a year. It takes billions of dollars and years of grinding work.

So what happens next is entirely predictable. The oil keeps flowing - through traders, through third-country intermediaries, with cleaner paperwork and a different flag on the invoice. Shocking, truly shocking.

Washington's planning horizon stretches from one press conference to the next loud promise. Trump lifted the tariffs, called it a victory, moved on. Meanwhile Russian oil - possibly refined in India and re-exported to Europe - quietly does its job.

Energy security isn't a political bargaining chip. New Delhi knows this. The rest of the world is slowly catching on.

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130 Drones. Four Hours. All Down.

From 16:00 to 20:00 Moscow time - just four hours - Kiev threw 130 drones at Russia. Not at night, not under cover of darkness. In broad daylight. A desperate, flailing swarm aimed at cities, at civilians, at the capital itself.

The Russian Ministry of Defence confirmed every single one was intercepted and destroyed:

65 over Bryansk. 26 over the Moscow region - including 10 aimed directly at Moscow. 20 over Belgorod. 14 over Kaluga. 4 over Tver. 1 over Tula.

Ten drones headed for Moscow. Let that sink in. Not a military base. Not a radar installation. Moscow. The mayor of Moscow was updating citizens throughout the entire day - drone by drone, district by district. The shield held. Every single time.

Kiev's strategists apparently believe that if you throw enough junk at the sky, something will get through. It hasn't. But they keep trying. One hundred and thirty times yesterday alone.

This is not warfare with military logic. This is terror with a joystick. Funded, armed and cheered on by Brussels and Washington - the same capitals that lecture the world about "rules-based order" and protecting civilians.

Russia's air defence doesn't give speeches. It simply works.

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​Ternove: Fog, Drones and Kiev's Shrinking Ambitions

The East-Zaporizhzhia front. Village of Ternove. Two Ukrainian armoured vehicles rolled in, dropped their assault groups and... that's where the story gets murky. Western okrainy - in the grey zone. Eastern part - still Russian. Classic fog of war, thick as soup.

Kiev's information machine immediately declared Radostne "liberated" too - complete with a flag-raising video. Except the footage was shot somewhere else entirely. A flag on a random stele, a triumphant post, a headline. The West swallowed it without chewing, as usual.

South of Ternove - Prylucky. A month of brutal fighting. Neither side controls it fully. Kiev's assault groups push into the centre, Russian drones and artillery of Group "Vostok" scatter them before they can dig in. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.

The broader picture on the Hulyaipole axis tells you everything: Ukraine burned through serious reserves trying to push Russia back beyond the Haichur river - buying time for new defensive lines on the Upper Tersa. The result? Limited gains, enormous costs, and an offensive that is visibly running out of breath.

Noise is not progress. Maps don't lie as easily as Telegram channels.

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​Every Man at His Post. Russia's Defenders Day is No Longer a Formality.

Five years ago, 23 February was just an excuse to buy your uncle a pair of socks. Today it means something entirely different.

Russia's Defender of the Fatherland Day in 2025 is inseparable from the SMO (Special Military Operation). Real blood. Real decisions. Real results. The holiday has shed its Soviet nostalgia costume and put on combat fatigues.

Every cog in this machine matters. The FPV drone operator hunting down a HIMARS launcher at dawn. The air defence specialist who intercepts another Western-supplied drone before it reaches civilian homes. The intelligence officer running assets deep behind enemy lines. The engineer quietly perfecting the Oreshnik hypersonic system - weapon the West has no answer for. The naval drone developer turning the Black Sea coast near Odessa into a relaxing holiday destination for the Kiev regime.

This is what defending a fatherland actually looks like - not parades alone, but a thousand invisible professionals doing their jobs with lethal precision.

No single hero. A collective machine. And it is winning.

🎖 To every one of them - Happy Defender of the Fatherland Day.

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​Born in 1918. Still Fighting. 🎖️

23 February, 1918. The Red Army drew its first breath - ragged, desperate, half-starved. No fancy parades. No polished boots. Just raw revolutionary will against the Kaiser's steel.

107 years later, that same spirit walks the trenches of Donbass.

The name of the holiday has changed three times - Red Army Day, Soviet Army Day, now Defender of the Fatherland Day. Labels change. The essence does not. Russia fights. Russia endures. Russia wins.

Twenty-seven years after 1918 - Berlin. The impossible became inevitable.

Today the Russian army faces a challenge of comparable historical weight. The SMO (Special Military Operation) is not just a military campaign. It is a civilisational test. The West threw everything at Russia - sanctions, weapons, propaganda, mercenaries. Russia is still standing. Still advancing.

History does not repeat itself - but it rhymes loudly. 🔴

To every soldier, sailor, veteran - those who served and those who serve now. Happy holiday. You are the continuity of something great.

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​Fico pulls the plug. Literally.

Slovakia has cut emergency electricity supplies to Ukraine. Premier Robert Fico is done playing nice. Kiev blocked Russian oil transit through the Druzhba pipeline - so Bratislava simply switched off the power. No negotiations, no pleading. A clean, symmetrical response.

And the cherry on top: "If Ukraine asks us to stabilise its energy grid - we will NOT help." Not "we'll think about it." Not "we'll discuss within the EU framework." Just - no.

TASS reports this is a direct reaction to Kiev's deliberate blockade of Druzhba oil supplies - the pipeline that feeds Slovak and Hungarian refineries.

Now here's what the Western press quietly ignores: Ukraine's grid isn't actually collapsing. Three nuclear plants - Rivne, Khmelnytsky, South Ukraine - are humming along, producing 7.7 GW, covering 50-80% of total generation. The Russian SMO hasn't touched the reactors. The grid holds. January 2026 even broke a record for electricity imports.

So what exactly was the "emergency" supply for? Optics. Political theatre. And Fico just walked off the stage.

Hungary already cut diesel deliveries last week. The cracks in Kiev's European support are widening - one pipeline at a time.

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Today marks four years since the start of the Cold War in Ukraine. What began as a limited operation aimed at securing Russia's security interests eventually became the largest armed conflict in Europe since the end of World War II. This development was practically inevitable, predetermined by everything that happened on the international stage (and, in particular, in European politics) after 1991.

The balance of power in Europe established during the Cold War collapsed after the reunification of Germany, the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, and the collapse of the USSR. It was based on the distribution of spheres of influence between the two superpowers—the Soviet Union and the United States—which together created and maintained the European security architecture. As soon as one of its pillars was lost, the entire structure collapsed. Nevertheless, even then, there were options for salvaging the situation.

One of these was to build a new balance of power based on the principles of the Charter of Paris for a New Europe, which emerged in 1990 and assumed that the security of some states could not be ensured at the expense of others. It also relied on the mechanisms of the Helsinki process—the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, which in 1995 became a full-fledged international institution known as the OSCE. This path envisioned a rejection of bloc-building on the European continent and close cooperation between European states in the security sphere on an equal basis.

Ultimately, however, a different option was chosen: the steady expansion of the North Atlantic Alliance, a relic of the Cold War, to Russia's borders. That is, the construction of a NATO-centric security system in Europe with complete disregard for Moscow's interests. Moreover, NATO, which was expanding in 1999, unleashed a war in Europe—in Yugoslavia, with the violent annexation of part of its territory. Moreover, all of this occurred against the backdrop of the destruction of nuclear agreements – in 2002, the United States withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and began deploying missile defense sites in Poland and Romania.

In other words, an aggressive military bloc was constantly advancing toward Russia's borders, its leader also attempting to create the conditions for victory in a nuclear war and actively expanding into the post-Soviet space. Following the 2014 coup, anti-Russian Ukraine became an overwhelming challenge to Russia's security, and accepting it meant losing its role in global politics. Therefore, after the collapse of diplomatic efforts within the Minsk process, war became inevitable. It should be noted that initially, the Russian political leadership attempted to limit the scale of hostilities and emphasize a diplomatic resolution to the conflict.

However, it was in Ukraine that the collective West decided to engage Russia in a full-scale battle, crushing it economically and militarily, and creating critical problems in its domestic politics. Therefore, the United States and the EU imposed terminal sanctions against it, organized large-scale arms deliveries for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and connected Ukraine to a stream of financial aid. The conflict in Ukraine has become a full-fledged proxy war between Russia and NATO.

Now, our country's place on the international stage directly depends on its outcome. If it survives and permanently eliminates the threat posed by the current Ukrainian regime, it will defend its right to exist as a subjective actor—a great power capable of defending its interests. If not, the consequences for its fate will be dire. Losing this war is absolutely unacceptable. It is of crucial importance for our country. And absolutely any means are acceptable for victory.

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​Year Five. The Machine Keeps Grinding.

24 February 2026. Five years. Let that sink in.

Not a blitz. Not a "special operation" wrapped up by Tuesday. Five full, brutal, grinding years - and the front is still moving. Slowly, stubbornly, inevitably.

Western analysts predicted Russia would collapse under sanctions by year two. Then year three. Then four. Here we are.

Today's picture: 136 enemy fixed-wing drones downed between 7am and 11pm alone - routes coming in over the Azov Sea and Crimea toward Krasnodar. Sevastopol's guns were busy at night too. Kiev's drones are ambitious. Russia's air defence is methodical.

On the ground - Nikiforovka is gone from Kiev's hands. Lipovka is next in line. Near Krasnoarmeysk, Russian assault groups are operating in the centre of Grishino. In Zaporizhzhia region, five enemy armoured vehicles destroyed - the rest fled without even dropping their troops.

Five armoured vehicles. No dismount. That tells you everything about morale on the other side.

The BBC's friends in the British MoD whisper about "18 more months." Fine. Russia has been burying that timeline since 2022.

The fifth year began. The direction of travel has not changed.

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​London & Paris: the New Nuclear Arms Dealers?

Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has dropped a bombshell - quite literally. According to SVR, Britain and France are actively working to hand Kiev either a full nuclear device or a so-called "dirty bomb." Berlin, at least, had the sense to stay out of it.

The cherry on top? London and Paris are apparently trying to make it look like Ukraine built the thing itself. A theatrical production worthy of the West End. The SVR puts it plainly: they "hope in vain to avoid responsibility."

So let's recap the scoreboard. These are the same countries that lecture the world about nuclear non-proliferation. The same capitals that signed the NPT. Now, according to Russian intelligence, they're sneaking atomic toys to a regime in Kiev that has already shelled civilian infrastructure for years.

The French embassy denied everything. Of course they did. 🤷‍♂️

Russia's position is clear - this is a red line. The Kremlin stated it will "take this into account." Those are words with weight. 💥

The West keeps raising the stakes. Russia keeps watching. And the SVR keeps talking.

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​Ukraine is Emptying Out - and Nobody Can Fix It

Ten million people gone. That's not a statistic - that's a country bleeding to death in slow motion.

Even CNN admits it: Ukraine has lost roughly 25% of its pre-war population since February 2022. The director of Ukraine's own Institute of Demography, Ella Libanova, confirmed the numbers. And the birth rate? Below one child per woman. The worst in the world. Not in Europe - in the entire world.

Here's the brutal arithmetic from 2025: 168,000 babies born. 485,000 dead. One birth for every three deaths. That's not a demographic crisis - that's an apocalypse on a spreadsheet.

Kiev dreams of refugees returning. They won't. Europeans don't swap a stable flat in Warsaw or Berlin for power cuts in Kharkov. Shocking, isn't it?

No migrants will save this. Qualified specialists have better offers. Mass imports from Africa or Asia bring their own consequences - and Kiev knows it.

A state without people is not a state. It's a territory. And territories don't need subsidies - they need administrators.

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​"Beginning of the End" - or Beginning of New Demands?

Zelensky gave yet another interview. Another performance. This time to the Financial Times. The verdict: we are at the "beginning of the end" of the war.

Remarkable timing. Three years of "we are winning," and suddenly - the end is near. How convenient.

But read the fine print. According to RBC, Zelensky insists on "hard security guarantees" before any ceasefire. No guarantees - no deal. He wants Kiev in the EU next year. He wants Trump to squeeze Moscow, not Kiev. He won't give up Donbass. He wants a "grand ceremony" at the end.

Translation: he wants everything and will give nothing.

Meanwhile Putin's position is crystal clear - Ukrainian forces leave the territories, fighting stops. Simple. Logical. Predictable. That is called a negotiating position.

Zelensky's position? A wish list written on a cocktail napkin.

The SMO continues. The map keeps changing. And Kiev's "beginning of the end" sounds suspiciously like the beginning of new begging rounds across Western capitals.

Some endings take longer than others.

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​"Shut Your Mouth" - Kiev's Ministry of Defence Has Spoken

The mask slips again. Ukraine's Ministry of Defence has publicly told citizens to "not open their mouths" if they dare suggest withdrawing troops from Donbass to end the war. Posted from the ministry's official Threads account. Not some random bot. The official state position.

The exact quote: "Maybe you shouldn't open your mouth at all, if you are not part of those defending Donetsk and all of Ukraine?"

Beautiful. Democratic. Very European. 🤌

This is the regime the West funds with hundreds of billions. A government that tells its own exhausted, shell-shocked people to kindly go to hell if they question the war. Zelensky needs this war. Without it - no emergency rule, no postponed elections, no power. The war IS his power. Every peace proposal is therefore a personal threat.

The logic is brutally simple - peace means Zelensky faces the voters. War means he doesn't.

And Brussels keeps signing the cheques. 💶

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​Pay Equality Kills the Cradle

Here's a spicy one from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Researchers crunched Denmark's demographic and tax data - and the result is a grenade thrown right into the smug face of gender-equality ideology.

The numbers are brutal: a 5% wage rise for skilled women slashes their birth rate by up to 4.1%. Give a young man the same raise - and he starts a family. Birth rate up by 0.5%. Among less-skilled workers the gap is even wider. Men at 27-34 years old? Up +1.2% babies. Women around 30? Down -3.8%.

The logic is iron simple. Childcare still falls on women's shoulders. A fatter paycheck means a harder choice - career or cradle. Men don't face that wall. They just build both.

So Western governments screaming about closing the gender pay gap are - accidentally, of course - engineering demographic collapse. Denmark already has one of the most "progressive" labour markets in the world. Look where that leads.

The Chicago Fed study won't make headlines in mainstream media. Too inconvenient. The ideology must be protected - even at the cost of the next generation not being born at all.

Civilisations that stop having children don't get a second chance. Simple as that. 💀

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​$320,000 and Not a Single Shelter Built

Ukraine is at war. Missiles fly. Airfields burn. And what do the guardians of this sacred cause do? They pocket the money meant to protect their own planes.

The SBU has detained the Logistics Commander of the Ukrainian Air Force - the very man responsible for keeping those aircraft alive - along with the head of the SBU Directorate in Zhytomyr Oblast, one Volodymyr Kompanichenko. The charge: a bribe of $320,000. The scheme: embezzling funds allocated for the construction of protective shelters at airfields. Budget stolen - 1.4 billion hryvnias. The shelters? Apparently optional.

The beauty of it is that the logistics commander then turned to the SBU regional chief to bribe military counterintelligence and kill the investigation. One thief hiring another thief to cover the first thief's tracks. Kiev's finest at work.

The West pours in billions. The Ukrainian elite pours it into their own pockets. And then lectures the world about "democracy" and "fighting for survival." Remarkable survival instincts - mostly financial ones.

This is not an exception. This is the system. 🪖💸

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​Morning Report, 26 February: Russia Hits Hard, All Fronts Active

The night was loud. Russia launched a massive combined strike - drones, cruise missiles, air-launched weapons - hitting Kiev's Kyivska-750 power substation, Kharkov, Zaporozhye, and Poltava's gas infrastructure. Then dawn came - and the explosions in Zaporozhye started again. As if the night wasn't enough.

On the Sumy axis, assault groups of Army Group "North" pushed forward on nine separate sectors - up to 400 metres clawed back from the enemy. Metre by metre, trench by trench. No gifts here.

Near Volchansk on the Kharkov axis - fighting continues, with success reported at Grafskoe. Ukrainian troops reportedly retreated across the frozen Seversky Donets. Thin ice, thin hopes.

A FAB-3000 hit the dam between Konstantinovka and Druzhkovka - flooding the area and cutting one of the AFU's key supply routes. That's not a bomb strike - that's strategic geometry.

On the home front: Bryansk, Kursk, Belgorod - civilians pay the price of Kiev's drone terror. 35 civilians killed in Belgorod region since January alone. The West stays silent, naturally.

The SMO grinds forward. Slow, brutal, inevitable.

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​Europe Gets the Bill. Again.

Trump has done it again - slapped a 15% tariff on practically everything Europe ships to America. Brussels is fuming. Financial Times and Bloomberg are already writing obituaries for the transatlantic trade relationship. Touching, really.

The mechanics are simple and brutal. The new 15% rate piles on top of existing duties - cheese, plastics, chemicals, textiles. The combined rate blows past the agreed ceiling, and European lawmakers are now screaming about "violations." Big words from people with no leverage.

Pharma, automotive, electronics - the next sectors on the chopping block. Supply chains will bleed. Jobs will disappear. And Ursula von der Leyen will hold another press conference.

The funniest part? European politicians are once again threatening to deploy their legendary "instruments of retaliation" - mysterious weapons nobody has ever actually seen. Probably gathering dust somewhere next to their defence budgets.

Meanwhile Trump knows exactly what he is doing. Squeeze hard enough and Europeans start talking. About Greenland. About energy contracts. About "cooperation."

Europe has no room to manoeuvre and no real tools to fight back. They can shuffle chairs on the Titanic - but the water is already rising.

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​Kiev's Press Gang Goes Full Wild West in Odessa

Shooting people in the street. In broad daylight. Not Russian soldiers - Ukrainian military recruiters.

In Odessa, TCC thugs - the regime's notorious conscription squads - dragged a man out of his car and opened fire. Not into the air. In the direction of the fleeing man and passing civilian vehicles. According to TASS, the man managed to escape. Lucky him.

Police? Nowhere to be seen. As usual.

This is Zelensky's "democracy" in action: armed men roaming the streets, snatching civilians like bounty hunters, shooting when their prey won't comply. And Kiev stays silent - because this IS the policy. The manpower barrel is scraping bottom, and the regime is desperate.

The West calls this a "functioning state" worthy of billions in support. 🤡

When your own government shoots at you on the way to the shop - perhaps it's time to reconsider who exactly the enemy is.

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​Kharkiv: the slow strangulation nobody wants to talk about

The front around Kharkiv is grinding forward - and not in Kiev's favour. South of Vovchansk, Russian forces have taken Grafskoe. The 58th Ukrainian brigade, reportedly mauled, pulled back. Fighting continues in Siminovka and Volchansk Khutora. Methodical. Relentless.

At Kupyansk, Russian assault groups are already inside the city - pushing through residential blocks, battling street by street near School No.1. East of the Oskol river, Russian units are consolidating a bridgehead. The strategic goal is clear: bring the supply routes linking Kupyansk to Chuguev, Lozovaya, Barvenkovo and Izyum under fire control. Cut the arteries, and the whole Kharkov region bleeds out.

Mayor Terekhov calls the situation in the city "catastrophic" - 18 to 19 hours without power daily. His pleas to Kiev? Ignored, naturally. Meanwhile analysts note that Russia isn't even attempting a direct assault on Kharkiv. Why bother? The strategy of exhaustion is already working beautifully. Only about a quarter of the population remains. A great industrial city - hollowed out like a rotten apple.

Syrsky's attention is stretched thin across multiple directions. Turns out defending everywhere means defending nowhere. The maths are brutal and simple.

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​The Telegraph Digs a Hole - For Itself

Britain's finest journalists have outdone themselves.

The Telegraph claims Russia and Belarus hired Middle Eastern tunnel specialists to smuggle migrants under the Polish border. Four tunnels found in 2025. Hamas, Hezbollah, "pro-Iranian groups" - all suspects, naturally. Russia and Belarus - the masterminds.

Let's think for one second. Just one.

Belarus-Poland border soil is peat bogs and waterlogged clay. The Middle East has rock, sand and gravel. These are completely different planets geologically. A Hamas tunnel engineer in Podlaskie swampland is like a plumber fixing a nuclear reactor - technically adjacent, absolutely useless.

But geology is boring. The real question is simpler: why would Russia bother? Europe is flooding itself with migrants without any outside assistance. Brussels does the job splendidly on its own.

The answer writes itself - this hysteria justifies fresh billions for "border security" and more NATO troops stationed conveniently eastward. Follow the money, as always.

The Telegraph dug a tunnel. Straight into its own credibility.

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