!!! Ukraine Early 2026
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!!The Truth About Russia
Author: Sekiguchi Masanori, Jan. 14, 2026
“Russia has lost everything. Everything. The war is lost." (This is quoting Andrey Zubov, a prominent Russian historian and political scientist who was famously dismissed from MGIMO (Moscow State Institute of International Relations) in 2014 after criticizing the annexation of Crimea.)
"The war is lost. The war is already lost by Russia in all possible ways. It is lost on the battlefield. They didn't go anywhere, not to Kharkiv, not to Kyiv, especially not to Lviv. They didn't go anywhere.\\
It's lost on the diplomatic level. All civilized countries have turned away from Russia. Just recently, Japan sent a large subsidy to help Ukraine. And as for Europe, I'm not even talking. As for Trump, well, it's a strange phenomenon that the Americans themselves will probably be ashamed of later. But nevertheless, there's a very powerful movement in America in support of Ukraine, both in the Republican and Democratic parties, also in the society.\\
Russia, once a truly great power, a member of the G8, became a satellite of China, which makes Russia now a raw material appendage of China.\\
It was potentially on the threshold of joining NATO. In 2002, the issue of joining NATO was already being discussed very seriously, and the then Prime Minister Kasyanov was for joining NATO, and Putin said that it was possible, we should think about it.\\
Well, now what NATO? Now the allies are North Korea, which journalists in Russia have also been poking fun at for so many years, about Kim Jong-un and so on. But it turned out that it wasn't worth poking fun at, that North Korean troops are fighting side-by-side with the Russians on the Ukrainian front.\\
Then there is Iran with these crazy ayatollahs, it turned out that these crazy ayatollahs there provide weapons and they're being used actively.\\
And finally, China itself, which, if we are impressed, then because of its economic and scientific successes, but certainly not for its totalitarian system. And now China is the main pillar of the Putin regime and Putin’s totalitarian system. So, naturally, Russia has suffered a humanitarian defeat, a mass of cultural people has left, I would say, the cultural elite of Russia, the Russian youth.\\
Well, and old people like me, we left, we don't want anything to do with this regime. I has violated human rights by continuing to kill civilians. And Russia itsself has lost hundreds of thousands of its people, and with a low birth rate and a poor level of education, this is critical. Russia has lost its culture, because the level of education has dropped sharply and, as a matter of fact, Russia has lost everything. Everything. The war is lost! This once more quoting Andrey Zubov: A prominent Russian historian and political scientist who was famously dismissed from MGIMO (Moscow State Institute of International Relations) in 2014 after criticizing the annexation of Crimea.
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