🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺 HODGES: WITKOFF AND KUSHNER WENT TO MOSCOW, CAME BACK WITH THE KREMLIN’S MESSAGE, AND ACHIEVED “ABSOLUTELY ZERO”
Hodges delivered a scathing assessment of Witkoff and Kushner’s latest diplomacy, arguing that their trip produced nothing positive and exposed what he sees as the fundamental flaw in the Trump administration’s approach to Russia’s war against Ukraine.
He described their behavior toward Putin as embarrassing, then accused them of traveling to Kyiv essentially to relay Moscow’s position without bringing anything new to the table.
At the same time, he noted, Russian forces were killing Ukrainian civilians while the diplomacy was taking place.
Hodges argues the deeper problem is that the Trump administration either does not understand or does not care about how the war began. In his view, Washington is focused primarily on claiming credit for ending the fighting, even if that means allowing Russia to secure what it wants and then moving quickly back toward business with Moscow.
That, he says, is precisely why Ukraine will not accept the proposed approach.
Hodges also praised Zelenskyy 🇺🇦 for bringing Britain, Germany and France into the process, allowing European partners to see the negotiations firsthand.
He believes Washington never possessed much leverage over Kyiv in the first place. Ukrainians, he argues, cooperated for as long as possible partly in the hope that Patriot support might restart.
His conclusion is bleak: he now doubts that will happen, and sees little reason for optimism from the current diplomatic track.
— @WW3finalboss Sep 12, 2026
Author: wawiimuy
🇷🇺🇺🇦🇳🇦🇹🇴 RUSSIA SPENT YEARS GAMING WARS AGAINST NATO — BUT ITS OWN SIMULATIONS COULD BE RIGGED BEFORE THEY EVEN STARTED
Russia built an elaborate war-gaming machine for conflicts against NATO, the United States, Japan and Ukraine, according to reporting cited by the Dossier Center. Some exercises involved more than 1,000 officers; one US-Japan scenario modeled 320,000 virtual troops. Putin himself reportedly set parameters for some of the largest games.
The process was extensive. One team played Russia, another mimicked the enemy using NATO tactics. Judges could sever Russian communications, introduce nuclear strikes and change battlefield conditions. Computers calculated losses, while General Staff chief Valery Gerasimov personally reviewed commanders’ decisions afterward.
The largest simulations were run from a bunker beneath the General Staff Academy in Moscow, with officers participating both in person and over secure links from across Russia.
But there was a serious flaw: the system could reproduce the assumptions of the people running it.
Russian commanders could underestimate opponents. Intelligence and security agencies could provide distorted information. Scenarios ending in Russian defeat could reportedly be removed before the exercise even began.
Moscow also invested heavily in the technical side. Iris-T generated 3D battlefields using military maps, aerial photography and satellite imagery. TEST allowed troops to engage digital targets. Kolodets 3D recreated tank and helicopter cockpits. Spektr-7E connected commanders’ plans to soldiers operating simulators and tracked the outcome of every move.
By 2021, Spektr-7E reportedly contained around 5,000 models of weapons, vehicles, military units and other objects.
Russia continuously fed battlefield experience back into these systems. Lessons from Syria were incorporated into later exercises. Then, in spring 2022, the General Staff conducted two major simulations centered on the war in Ukraine, removing the concept of a continuous front and adding special operations forces, foreign mercenaries and cities Russian troops had failed to capture.
The West was adapting too.
After the full-scale invasion, NATO increasingly gamed scenarios built around a Russian attack. In one exercise, Russia used drones to mine the Lithuania-Poland border before sending 15,000 troops into Lithuania. The German side chose not to open fire. In the simulation, Russia won.
Ukraine and its partners were also using war games operationally. Ukrainian and Western generals in Wiesbaden modeled the 2022 liberation of the Kherson region and the 2023 southern offensive using NATO’s KORA system, Excel and even ordinary pieces placed on a physical map.
The technology could be sophisticated. The harder problem was ensuring that the simulated battlefield was allowed to contradict what commanders wanted to believe.
— @WW3finalboss Sep 12, 2026
BREAKING:
China says U.S is taking illegal advantage of dominant position, it attacks weaker countries in the world.
China also says it will not follow traditional path to replace existing power with rising one.
China accuses the US of abusing its economic, military and unilateral power in the world.
— @World_Affairs11 Sep 12, 2026
🇺🇦❗️Ukraine seeks to receive 100-120 missiles for Patriot every month and plans to deploy its own FREYJA anti-missile system as early as December, – Zelensky.
▪️Russia currently produces about 140 ballistic missiles per month. To guarantee the destruction of such a number, according to NATO rules, it is necessary to have twice as many interceptors – 280 missiles;
▪️At the same time, even receiving 100 missiles per month remains an extremely difficult task;
▪️Ukraine seeks to receive 100-120 missiles for Patriot during the coldest months from US stocks and production, from European countries and partners in the Middle East;
▪️In parallel, Ukraine, together with companies from ten countries, is developing its own FREYJA anti-missile system;
▪️The main part of this system is the launcher and the missile. We have them. This is Ukrainian production.
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— @Maks_NAFO_FELLA Sep 12, 2026
🇺🇦👀 Zelensky: This is a very costly process for Russia. Of course, it is costly for Ukraine as well.
War is expensive, but Russia is losing a huge number of people, completely disproportionate, certainly compared with Ukrainian losses.
There is no army like Ukraine’s in Europe right now.
Of course, for now — Europe is developing and will receive information, technologies, and experience from us through partnership.
But there is no such army anywhere in Europe.
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— @Maks_NAFO_FELLA Sep 12, 2026
BREAKING: Zelensky says willing to meet Putin at G20 in Miami — interview to German broadcaster
— @TheInsiderPaper Sep 12, 2026
President Zelensky warned Ukraine will respond symmetrically if Russia strikes its energy grid this winter, causing blackouts in return.
He also proposed a mutual “energy truce” to halt infrastructure attacks.
— @KyivPost Sep 12, 2026
Germany has identified two suspects behind the Leipzig airport attack, including an agent linked to Russia’s GRU intelligence unit, the Axel Springer Global Reporters Network can reveal.
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telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2…— @Telegraph Sep 12, 2026
Putin boosts his stock of nuclear warheads to nine-year high as he threatens West that putting troops into Ukraine ‘means war with Russia’ trib.al/BkeVK0h
— @DailyMail Sep 12, 2026
Vladimir Putin warned that deploying European troops to Ukraine would mean direct war with Russia.
At the same time, he claimed European leaders are inventing an “imaginary” threat from Moscow.
— @KyivPost Sep 12, 2026