Medvedev: Russia Must Instill 'Animal Fear' In EU Warmongers As Goodwill Measures Futile

Medvedev: Russia Must Instill 'Animal Fear' In EU Warmongers As Goodwill Measures Futile

 TYLER DURDEN

Head of the Russian Security Council and former president, Dmitry Medvedev, has penned an article ahead of the 81st anniversary of Soviet victory over Nazi Germany, or Russia's V-Day, lambasting Europe's new path of reckless militarization. As widely featured in state media, he argued that the "animal fear" of unacceptable losses will prevent Germany and the wider "United Europe" from launching another attack against Russia.

He wrote, "It is no secret that an attempt is being made to impose on us the doctrine of ‘peace through strength’. Our response then can only be 'the security of Russia through the animal fear of Europe.'"

He stressed that "neither persuasion, nor demonstration of good intentions, nor goodwill and unilateral confidence-building steps should be our tools to prevent a big massacre."

"Only the formation of an understanding among Germany and the United Europe supporting it of the inevitability of their receiving unacceptable damage in the event of the implementation of the Barbarossa 2.0 plan," Medvedev concluded.

RT reviews and pinpoints why Medvedev is taking direct aim at Berlin in his written piece: 

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz openly vowed to turn the German military into the “strongest conventional army in Europe” in a speech just days after the world marked the 80th anniversary of the fall of the Third Reich last May.

Last month, the German Defense Ministry unveiled a plan to reach this goal and field 460,000 combat-ready personnel by 2039, the 100th anniversary of Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Poland. German and other EU officials repeatedly cited 2029 as the first stage deadline to be “war-ready” for a potential conflict with Russia.

It is true that even after 4+ years of grinding war in eastern Europe, the Western powers have yet to intervene directly by sending their own forces, and after losses on both the Ukrainian and Russian sides have probably been in the hundreds of thousands.

The conflict is largely stalemated, with Russian forces in the east having had a very slow but steady, piecemeal momentum over the past year.

However, Ukraine's drone strikes deep inside Russia have been devastating of late, inflicting serious damage on Russian oil refineries - in some cases hitting key sites multiple times, with Russia's anti-air defenses appearing powerless to stop these attack waves.

The Moscow region itself has been coming under repeat drone attack. While these operations have little or no impact on the frontline situation in the Donbass, Kiev hopes to inflict serious costs on the Russian government and population, the latter which is surely growing tired and weary of the war.

But Medvedev's point is also that if broader conflict with Europe opens one day, the European powers won't be able to find an offramp before absorbing immense losses - no matter their efforts to revamp and expand their respective defense industries.

When The Gospel Is Criminalised, Who Suffers The Consequences?

When The Gospel Is Criminalised, Who Suffers The Consequences?

Christian Concern

In Colchester, one of Britain’s oldest recorded settlements, an entire church community is facing the possibility of being criminalized for their street ministry.

The church, Bread of Life Community Church in Clacton-on-Sea, has been issued a Community Protection Notice that risks criminalizing the entire church, regardless of their personal involvement, for preaching the gospel in nearby Colchester town center.

Over the last decade, we have defended hundreds of church ministries and street preachers who have been censored for their outreach ministries.

And the frequency of these cases is only increasing.

The message is clear: authorities, both in Colchester and beyond, are curtailing the sort of Christianity that might disrupt our complacent culture.

And the gospel has always been disruptive.

Whether it is preaching the gospel, providing food to the homeless, or simply offering educational resources to those interested in Christianity, church ministries that reach into the heart of local communities are vital to the spread of the gospel.

Jesus calls us to be disciples who go out and make more disciples.

But by this kind of action, there is a real danger that councils will seek to confine this kind of public proclamation of our faith to within the walls of the church.

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When Global Order Begins to Fracture

When Global Order Begins to Fracture

Milan Adams

There are moments in history when the world changes with noise — sirens, speeches, falling statues. And then there are moments when it changes so quietly that almost nobody realizes it is happening. We are living through the second kind. No formal announcement marked the transition. No historic summit collapsed on live television. No leader stepped forward to say: the old rules no longer apply. And yet, somewhere between the war in Ukraine, the tightening strategic alignment between Russia and China, and the silent expiration of the New START in February 2026, the global system that kept great-power rivalry inside predictable boundaries began to dissolve. Not explode. Dissolve.

For decades, the world’s stability did not come from trust. It came from limits. From inspection regimes. From numbers written into treaties. From the strange comfort of knowing exactly how dangerous your adversary was allowed to be. Military planners in Moscow and Washington worked with ceilings. Diplomats worked with verification schedules. Leaders worked with red lines that had legal meaning. Those ceilings are now gone, and most of the public has not noticed because nothing dramatic happened the day they disappeared.

For years, American strategists believed the triangle between Washington, Moscow, and Beijing could be manipulated. If relations with one deteriorated, the other could be courted. It was the logic behind the Cold War opening to China and the repeated attempts to “reset” relations with Moscow. There was a quiet confidence that Russia, culturally tied to Europe and historically wary of China, would never fully lean toward Beijing.

That confidence now looks misplaced.

Today, the United States faces not two separate rivals but two powers whose interests increasingly overlap:

• Both view American sanctions as a weapon of political coercion
• Both seek to dilute U.S. influence in global institutions
• Both advocate a “multipolar” order where Washington’s dominance fades
• Both benefit from closer economic and strategic coordination

This is not a formal alliance, which paradoxically makes it more durable. It is not built on ideology or treaty obligations but on a shared reading of the world. Even a future change in leadership after Vladimir Putin may not reverse this direction. Years of sanctions, NATO expansion, and the war in Ukraine have reshaped Russian political psychology. The turn toward China is no longer tactical. It is structural.

On February 5, 2026, New START expired. There was no emergency summit. No dramatic breakdown in negotiations. It simply ended.

For the first time since the early 1970s, there is no binding agreement limiting how many deployed strategic nuclear weapons the U.S. and Russia can field. Together, they hold the overwhelming majority of the world’s nuclear warheads. During the Cold War, even at moments of extreme tension, both sides maintained arms control agreements because they served a critical purpose: they made the enemy measurable. You could count warheads. You could inspect launchers. You could verify data.

Russia suggested informally that both sides observe the old limits for another year to allow time for talks. Washington did not formally accept. No replacement treaty emerged. No urgent negotiations dominated the news cycle. The expiration passed like a date on a calendar, but inside defense ministries, the conversation shifted. Without legal ceilings, planners no longer ask what are we allowed to deploy? but what can we deploy? That is how arms races begin — quietly, through planning assumptions rather than political declarations.

For decades, global order depended on mechanisms that reduced uncertainty even when hostility remained intense. What held rivalry in check was not goodwill, but structure — the confidence that opponents understood thresholds, recognized consequences, and operated within a strategic grammar both sides could read. That grammar is now eroding, and with it disappears the predictability that once made dangerous competition manageable.

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DATA CENTERS TO IMPLEMENT THE BEAST SYSTEM?

DATA CENTERS ARE REQUIRED TO IMPLEMENT THEIR BEAST SYSTEM

Mike Adams

Something’s totally off about the number of data centers being built (over 3,000 right now) and the sheer size and compute power they represent.

They are massively OVER-building capacity that can’t possibly be met by customer demand for compute.

And customer revenues can’t possibly recover the financial investment needed on these projects.

There’s clearly some other plan afoot, and I don’t yet know what it is. It involves massive compute, but not merely to serve inference or hosting databases and corporate data. There’s a much larger plan at work here.

Justin Lurking’s Answer:

It’s not a secret. I’m surprised you don’t know what it is. The plan is to build a hyper-detailed, real-time ‘digital replica’ of the entire planet that tracks all assets, environments, resources – literally everything.

You have programs like NASA’s ESDT, EU’s, DestinE (yeah, they don’t even bother to hide it), water specific tracking, energy, transport, all of it. Literally everything.

Why? To build a system with near-perfect foresight. Early warnings for tornadoes, floods, droughts, zero-waste water-agriculture, immediate disaster response, full scale real-time weather modification, biodiversity tracking, disease tracking. A fully operational real-time digital control grid to control EVERYTHING.

That’s why there’s so much compute and storage being built. That’s why there’s so much push for faster networking: 6G, satellites filling the skies, etc.

It’s the full realization of the ‘Beast System’. People think it’s just money. No, it’s everything. I mean it. EVERYTHING. Full, continuous monitoring, surveillance and control of every single living thing and every single inch of the planet.

Trump: ‘Great damage’ done to Iranian attackers after US ships face fire; says truce ‘in effect’

Trump: ‘Great damage’ done to Iranian attackers after US ships face fire; says truce ‘in effect’

TOI

US President Donald Trump says three US Navy destroyers transited out of the Strait of Hormuz under fire, adding that the American destroyers were not damaged but “great damage was done to Iranian attackers.”

Earlier, Trump tells a reporter from ABC News that the recent US strikes were “just a love tap” and adds that “the ceasefire is going. It’s in effect.”

On Truth Social, Trump writes that the US attacked Iranian seacraft that fired at US Navy ships.

“Three World Class American Destroyers just transited, very successfully, out of the Strait of Hormuz, under fire. There was no damage done to the three Destroyers, but great damage done to the Iranian attackers,” Trump writes on Truth Social.

“They were completely destroyed along with numerous small boats,” he says.

He threatens Iran with further attacks unless it agrees to a deal in ongoing talks with the US.

“A normal country would have allowed these destroyers to pass, but Iran is not a normal country. They are led by LUNATICS, and if they had the chance to use a nuclear weapon, they would do it, without question,” he writes. “But they’ll never have that opportunity and, just like we knocked them out again today, we’ll knock them out a lot harder, and a lot more violently, in the future, if they don’t get their deal signed, FAST!”

US confirms striking Iran in ‘self defense,’ says it ‘does not seek escalation’

TOI

The American military confirms carrying out “self-defense” strikes in Iran in response to “unprovoked Iranian attacks” against US Navy missile destroyers that transited the Strait of Hormuz to the Gulf of Oman.

“Iranian forces launched multiple missiles, drones and small boats as USS Truxtun (DDG 103), USS Rafael Peralta (DDG 115), and USS Mason (DDG 87) transited the international sea passage,” US Central Command says in a statement.

CENTCOM says it intercepted the “inbound threats,” and “no US assets were struck.”

In response, CENTCOM says it targeted Iranian military facilities “responsible for attacking US forces.” The targets included “missile and drone launch sites, command and control locations, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance nodes,” according to CENTCOM.

“CENTCOM does not seek escalation but remains positioned and ready to protect American forces,” the statement adds.

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