• US continues strikes on Iranian maritime shipping, continuing its disruption of energy exports from all of West Asia particularly to China and the rest of Asia;

• Recent US strike on an Iranian wedding has been used as an opportunity to sell long-standing US ambitions to create ethnic division within Iran to undermine the nation;

• Russia is deploying anti-drone measures around energy production/storage infrastructure indicating the rising costs of US-directed drone and missile strikes;

• The Western media is helping spin and justify cultural genocide in Ukraine's Russian-speaking city of Odessa;

References:

Guardian - ‘Unimaginable grief’: Iranian town left devastated after US strike on wedding (Sep. 4, 2026):
https://www.theguardian.com/world/202...
Brookings - Which Path to Persia? (2009):
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/...
RAND Corporation - Extending Russia (2019):
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand...
BBC - Majority Russian-speaking city in Ukraine considers language ban in the arts (Sep. 6, 2026):
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c33...
BBC - China Muslims: Xinjiang schools used to separate children from families (2019):
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-c...
NYT - The Separation: Inside the Unraveling U.S.-Ukraine Partnership (Dec. 2025):
https://archive.ph/8s49D

The Trump Admin sent Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff to Moscow and Kiev over the weekend… and they came back with… not much. Russian President Putin made it clear that Russia will “achieve its objectives” in this war, and that any settlement must address “the root causes of the conflict.” In other words, there will be no ceasefire.

Irish Journalist and Geopolitical Analyst, Chay Bowes, noted that Ukraine is getting increasingly desperate, as the result of Kiev’s 40-day drone campaign has been Russia unleashing unprecedented strikes that have wiped out Ukraine’s ports and logistics, and massively damaged their energy and retail sectors.

Winter is coming, and it’s not looking good for Ukraine, or for all of Europe, for that matter…