Europe

  • Ukraine strikes hard at Moscow to end a war

    The startling reality of Moscow getting hit by repeated air raids is the fact it’s a legitimate target of rebuke by a nation reacting under the pressure of invading conditions. Before, nations dreamed of striking the fortress city because of ambitions to rid the world of an oppressive state that had otherwise yet to show it was a truly aggressive one.

    Ukraine is at the forefront of a conflict that it needs to win because its existence – to some extent – depends on it. This changes the dynamics of scenes that we now have of the Moscow skyline going dark because of drone battery rams.

    Unverified footage of the Moscow skyline during a daytime attack on an oil refinery depot (Credit: @murat_san_russian_war_update/Telegram).

    The next steps for this war are determinate on the respective plans of either nation. Ukraine has to work out the battle strategy of Russia, which works by guidelines it keeps away from the prying eyes of international law. Russia, meanwhile, presumably has more to accomplish before it believes its national security status is repaired.

    The condition of Moscow by the end of such a war is open to speculation because Ukraine is refusing to hold back, considering the capital of Russia to be a legitimate target anyway. The nerves therefore of either side have to be made of steel as this is wrestled over.

  • Caught: Burnham accomplice

    In a stunning exclusive for Conservative News Site, a national security crisis continues over the candidacy of career criminal Andy Burnham, who is widely protected by sinister media forces in the UK and still wanted by Europol.

    An accomplice of Burnham as it relates to a spate of car thefts and criminal intimidation conducted across the South East of England, at times to benefit the pockets of staff of news media companies, has now been spotted in London.

    An accomplice
    An accomplice of known career criminal Andy Burnham as it relates to his car crimes.

    The ongoing advice of security experts in the UK is to ignore the claims of news media staff as they protest their innocence. A significant surveillance operation is now underway to investigate the material involvement of UK citizens in widespread crimewaves that have encompassed the lives of millions of other people here.

    “The Madman” Burnham

    Andy “The Madman” Burnham is thought to be supported by American career criminals based in American Intelligence and other government roles there. Lacklustre responses to government communications has resulted in further delays to investigation of his crimes.

    Due to the nature of his criminal activity, it’s believed that all lines of inquiry have to be exhausted for real moves or efforts to be made. The moral disaster that is the Labour Makerfield by-election candidate is also included in Europol’s own investigations, which in fact predate any others in the UK.

  • Call for information: Radical killer

    In an exclusive for Conservative News Site, a radical activist alleged of killing senior Civil Servants in cold blood is now wanted alongside thousands of other UK citizens by international crime agencies for their alleged actions overseas.

    A suspect
    A suspect alleged of criminal activity like murder and other acts in Europe.

    It’s believed the suspect is also guilty of high profile murders in Italy, mainly in the Rome area. His activity is likely to be linked to payments by media companies like “Sky” and other UK-based entities who refuse to take official advice and still approach criminals for comment.

    Any information relating to this individual must be passed to a relevant public body. It will be used to build an accurate case, if one exists.

  • The EU dominated through our political parties

    What’s becoming clear is that things change if we do. Reform UK has broken the mould in Wales and Scotland, and now threatens to do the same in England.

    This marks an exit from another sort of EU – the EU of local dominance and central control.

    The way it worked since the 1970’s is not simply through our compliance. This didn’t exist in some places. It worked by EU networkers in our political parties.

    This is what made it so hard. Thatcher in particular felt the immediate pull to Europe as a Conservative, and not as a citizen of the UK or of Europe.

    The Brexit reality is a disconnect from Brussels and a hooking up of the UK to its own sources of power and influence. Whereas they lay dormant before, they now rise to action for us.

  • Russians like Putin but love the Presidency more

    The goal in Russian life is to protect and enhance Russia’s status in the world. The closed nature of it is a political modus operandi, or, a point found in the fine print of official policy and in the doctrines Moscow’s leaders have to follow. Their first day is as their last, or it should be. It’s loyalty, first and always.

    Everyday life, meanwhile, is guided by a felt need to defend reputation, settle scores, and pursue the ends the State wants to reach. This galvanises people unlike any other political or nationalist movement on earth. It makes modern Russia a tightly wrought, if elitist, power and in a headlong search for gain.

    Russians are given to regard Putin as a mastermind of the reinvention of the nation, but not necessarily its saviour. He’s known as a quiet worker, and the Kremlin – as his office – is where he’s happiest. Therefore they leave him, and protect the streets around it to enjoy a stable, if polarised, political life.

    In the background, the many leadership structures get on and guide life in regions that form the bulk of the people. Everyone knows someone that can ‘help’ them to do what’s best for Russia. Any dissent is mainly felt, and not thought out. It’s natural or even normal but dealt with forcibly to keep peace.

    Therein is the flaw in the plan. While Russians look to each other to continue as a European power, they also feel the rebuke of the State on them if they haven’t followed the letter of the law. This is love and hate working or coexisting together, without freedom in between or in reach anywhere else.

    Putin won’t outlive the Presidency, and so some hesitation is in the Russian voice as they speak of him. “Someone else will be around in no time. They know he will be replaced,” a contact inside Russia once told me, offering a foreboding realisation that another will come along. His idea is to stay on until that happens, and by that time, he’ll be remembered at least.

    The Kremlin is now a modern feature in Russia at large, and this is the secret. It’s not an old place, it’s now a new way of doing things. There’s reverence but also respect reported by Russians who visit it, situated adjacent to Red Square, perhaps more of a reminder of the past than its burgeoning present.

    Putin knows how to come and go in the public mind, and he’s not as constant an agitation as we’ve been led to believe by protesters who pop up to object. But his office is now an official secular religion. The people know it will be held by their strongest advocate, and with it always in mind, they get on in life.

  • In Russia, Putin inspires belief at least

    The Russian ‘system’ is not studied by the West, in large measure because of a focus on Journalism and its effects on opposition politics, but also because Russia is seen as backward and broken. There may be another excuse. If Putin had any finer grip on power, it might spook people completely.

    The word is that his ‘system’ is fast becoming the set standard for those that understand Russian leadership, and in particular have a share in the Kremlin’s overall power structures.

    “His leadership has come at a time when Russia can be shaped,” a dissident said to me, looking scared. “It’s how he rules – and how they see it – that matters,” he concluded, falling silent.

    That Putin feels in control is down to his own mastery. Few could do it, considering the hints and tips that are sent out from time to time. He’s characterised as running a newsroom, military command control centre, and a boardroom all at one time.

    The task is unimaginable to us because Russians want something different. The best efforts of Europeans to convince otherwise have failed, reflected on by looking to our own chaotic structures.

    As he feeds in his ideas, Putin is the President of Russia. This is how it’s seen. “If there’s no Putin, there’s no leader,” a proud Russian national said to me, “you know that – with your newspapers!” His point is that we seem to thrive off a bad man in Russia to understand our part of the world – this part of Europe – as much as he knows the strength of the Kremlin on his life.

    Russia’s war is faltering. Maybe Russians will assume their leader has run out of ideas. They don’t think in terms of land grabs unless they’re told to, but they do believe their armed forces will achieve everything they can before such a reality comes to pass for Russia.

  • Russian affairs are a closed circle to us

    Russia’s program of events is a nationalistic and paternalistic plan for the whole of the Russian people, exclusive of world affairs and of global conditions. There’s a strong feeling of self-determination that runs straight through the top level of Moscow’s leadership. No one has to insist on it, and only in rare instances are there public rebukes over a particular detail that’s overlooked or misunderstood.

    A graphic illustrating the Russian nation
    A graphic illustrating the Russian nation as having a strong and unique culture (Credit: xAI Grok/Original).

    It’s so strong that much of the process of running or ‘governing’ society is formulaic. There are clear expectations for regional and local leaders. The only unpredictable element is over what they have to deal with next. Russian life isn’t a march into the future but a plan built around it. Inevitably, events are monitored and informed by a Presidency of power and position at the very centre.

    The UK will never have a significant measure of influence in Russian society. It’s obvious why. The Kremlin setup is too autocratic for dialogue, too difficult for compromise, and too riddled with suspicions for our side to be trusted. In this respect, our parts to play in the world are very separate. It’s a matter of deescalating tensions to avoid any hostility where there’s conflict. It’s a tricky job to keep up with it.

  • Spain hints at change but has a disastrous record

    Spain is a travel destination for many, a business zone for some, and a new place to live for the few. But in reality the sun-scorched and beach blessed land is in trouble. It has political difficulties on a philosophical level of discord, and so entrenched that dissatisfaction exceeds the pull of a survey to be something felt deeply in Spanish nature. It’s a characteristic of the times to be unsure about politics itself. Many professionals are disillusioned by a lack of new ideas for how to fix whatever problems there are, which by popular consensus appear to elude even their brightest journalists.

    The point is not a change of model, but a recognition of faults and failings in people’s everyday working. Spanish voters don’t think much of their elite professional class, and privately many undergraduates are unsure about working in government offices at all. They don’t see the point if there’s little to no public support in some places for it. The ritual of voting is felt to keep terrorists and dictators out of the country, but apart from those far off threats, the benefits of democracy are not easy to articulate because they’re not recognised as being seen.

    The election cycles that have elapsed in this state of affairs have embedded a deep sense of distance and a feeling of numbness in the populace, so much so that Royalty has the advantage of being able to draw attention to itself by shows of pageantry that at least remind people of being Spanish. This can’t fill the gap, or a void left by overly competitive political parties that fail to make real contact with people beyond the slogans. Spanish citizens are in need of a real conversation about their lives but only see inevitabilities as facts and figures in front of them. They want someone in the fight for them, but only see the corruption, past and present.

  • Russia’s Victory Day parade showed one thing: might

    Russia’s efficient show of military expenditure is a hallmark of its modern equivalence to powers all over the world.

    In fact, while Americans build bases and commit to vast enterprises, Russians are deploying their best and brightest in banking, finance, and resourcing to build Russia into a European superpower.

    Its Victory Day parade was a masterclass of discipline by those at the very top of its forces, but a video montage offered an insight into where the majority are.

    A video montage created by Russia’s military authority to show its prowess and cunning in the battlefield (Credit/source: Associated Press/YouTube).

    Its visuals suggest millions of people staff an assortment of units, cyber networks, and backup regiments that are hidden in the landscape, embedded for purposes beyond our immediate knowledge.

    Russia looks modern, energetic, and in full control of its national security, but it now has to answer why it’s invaded Ukraine.

    If it feels in control of itself, which parades like this suggest, but glimpses of technical stock also indicate, then surely Ukraine isn’t a legitimate matter.

  • The EU is Ukraine’s surest chance of peace

    Ukraine’s entry to the EU is a chance for lasting peace in its eyes. It translates as a clear rejection of Russia’s warmongering. The resultant hard border may be a tough ask for the faltering Union, but it’s a worthy task of Europe, one it can use to its own advantage.

    The minds that scheme for the EU’s next moves often lament their lack of real contact with Russia, saying no line really exists for it to negotiate along any real terms. Ukraine may focus lawmakers on improving Europe’s security than give more scope for its critics.

  • Revealed: Post-war Intelligence is a disaster story

    The effects of Intelligence work done during the Second World War had convinced many that such work had to continue beyond the cessation of hostilities. It was meant to track the radical elements that may have remained, and further entities that may try to start up.

    The lack of a galvanising war cry, however, had left such an effort in a disorganised state. The attempts made to join together capability were not easy to maintain. In particular, over time the “Five Eyes” group was subject to repeated infiltration efforts by Soviet spies.

    The remaining history is a story of domestic Intelligence bodies stealthily maintaining their work whilst also covering for the extra duties left over by such groups who were plundered, manipulated, and turned to other uses. By its own records, it was a rush to safeguard modernity itself.

  • Exclusive: “Five Eyes” Mossad linkup

    In an exclusive for Conservative News Site, a Mossad agent hired by the secretive “Five Eyes” European spying service to surveil UK citizens on a hostile basis has now been spotted in central London.

    A suspect
    A suspect in clandestine activity led by European powers behind the “Five Eyes” spying operation.

    It’s believed European powers are seeking to manipulate post-Brexit realities to steal intellectual property – and even take human assets – in the UK to use for their own national purpose and prosperity.

  • Alice Weidel needs to ignore the others

    It’s not easy doing your job at the same time that chancers are peddling their lies, gravitating in the same camps as if these are battle lines that have been drawn. The similarity is helpful if it juxtaposes a person against their opposition to be seen as a contender. It’s unhelpful if everything ugly about your partner is kept on show, too.

    Alice Weidel speaking for her party, the AfD, at CPAC 2026 in Hungary.

    Alice Weidel, the leader of AfD, is a class act in German politics, and doesn’t need the bloated nonsense of Hungary’s leader, but if she seeks it maybe it’s for political purposes later. Her appearance at CPAC 2026 in Budapest is everything it should be, minus the setting. Weidel could do much better.

    Her platform is largely self-built, so say international sources, and she has a lot to go on by herself. There’s no need to be heard, just a fact of the matter leadership bid to continue for a campaign for real power in government. This is singular leadership in the modern world. It promises to be freeing if it stays just, and is right.

  • The EU seeks a new social network to hide its own

    The European problem is best described as an issue of hiddenness and what it does. It’s occurred before that concealing intents and concerns in countries in numerous ways has caused a huge lot of trouble. It’s unhelpful for those stuck as pawns in a great game of protection rackets and pretenders to royalty, as much as for those that don’t look for trouble but get it in spades anyway.

    The new idea by the European Commission to start up a social media network for EU users is just the same way of doing it as before, and of expecting a different result. It lacks a sophistication because Facebook, Instagram, and X have already shown the way it’s done, and it’s worth joining in. The ‘invention’ of a secure, almost secretive version of these to satisfy a need to be different is a shadowy way to govern.

    “The organisers of the initiative consider that the ‘process should integrate appropriate entities like companies or universities in creating and functioning of the platform’ and ‘make Europe strategically independent in the area of online communication’.”

    – European Commission/Online

    The risky lack of outside contact is not a dearth the European Commission should want to create. It may be founded on an idea that talking to each other is great, even online, but the idea of an EU-only content network is a fast-track to dystopian nightmares of authorised politics, something George Orwell has warned us about already, and a lesson we need to heed.

  • Putin wants all out-war, but Ukraine can save the day

    As Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, it was thought that it would result in the annexation of some territories to the State of Russia as a way of placating the admittedly more powerful adversary. It would result only in pro-Russian areas ceding ‘back’ to a Moscow-based rule as a sort of homage, while Ukraine regained itself as a much smaller player on the world stage, also minus some regions it could have held onto.

    It’s thought that this is how Putin sees things, and possibly many others across the world. His perspective is that Russian ‘might’ eclipses the West, and that a return of people’s as it were would show it. It would prove in one go that Russia is better than Ukraine – and that Europe better take notice of it.

    President Putin speaks about the start of his country’s war against Ukraine, stating it’s a matter of life and death.

    The trouble is that Russia has stages to its progress, as it has shown in other ways. While many have dreamed of global domination, its place is to worship the position that one can hold in this way. It’s not necessary to subjugate the world. The only important duty is to hold it in possession as a form of influence, or in a de facto treaty with it.

    The end of the Ukraine conflict in such a way is not a settlement of the matter at all. An increase of power for Moscow – as it would be – could only result in a further bitter confrontation with Europe, and then still further measures. It’s the only reality. Russia seeks now to build itself up into a force much similar to America or indeed China, to rule over Europe as a parent.

    It’s an early start of a renewed push by Moscow elites to gain a better advantage over Europe, to see what it can do and to flex its muscles in more modern ways. The challenge is formiddable, but Europe can overcome it – if it takes it seriously, that is. The chances of that are not good, considering the divided nature of even NATO-style diplomacy, but if Ukraine keeps it under control, the future may be different.