Being curious about Yulia Latynina’s way of analysing the current situation in Russia “Sustainable Politics” publishes this video, as a following up of the former post: 53. Yulia Latynina: the Russian opposition journalist. It is surprising to hear her mentioning the name Ivan Katchanovski1, and touting his research on the Maidan Massacre.
Video (subtitles available)
“Being an enemy of the West is dangerous. Being its colony is fatal”. Interview with Zhivoy Gvozd Published: July 15, 2026 By: Yulia Latynina
Timestamps 00:00:00 Start of broadcast 00:00:18 Fuel crisis in Russia and gasoline shortages 00:10:45 Crimea’s status and perception of the North-Eastern Front 00:24:30 Propaganda, public sentiment, and the state of the Russian economy 00:36:20 Konstantinovka and the situation at the front 00:47:40 Donald Trump, sanctions, and Western policy 00:59:30 What could change the situation in Russia 01:07:10 Answers to viewers’ questions 01:11:30 End of broadcast
A. Eliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat – exposed – Intro – How a simple, preoccupied amateur blogger could get an honorary doctorate (and why the university has to withdraw it) – Who is Eliot Higgins?
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A. Eliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat – exposed
1. Intro
It became clear on May 6, 2026, that in my post about the MH17, published in April, 2023, the links to two, in 2023 existing Bellingcat pages, both with pictures of a Russian BUK in Ukraine, in 2008, did not lead to the pages that I expected: the two links brought me this time both to the same page and the content and the pictures had been changed. Why did that happen? I found it so strange, that I started to search for info about Bellingcat, all the more so because during the last years I had frequently read comments in the social media that were warning against Bellingcat: Bellingcat was, according to these comments, not reliable. Today I found even more severe accusations, and when checking what information our “friend” Google was offering, I found, of course, that (for instance) The Grayzone1 and Voltaire Network2 are promoting conspiracy theories and are pro-Russia, pro-Iran and pro-Syria. Interesting! Why? During the years we get more and more, really excellently informed and educated via empirically proven to be reliable and independent sources, and that is why we, the public, know that the term conspiracy theory is a successful tool to keep the easy to manipulate public away from truth. Back to Bellingcat: their website has today a more advanced layout than in 2023, and I discovered that the posts show an undeniable anti-Russia approach, and are nothing less than western propaganda, used to legalize war and NATO expansion. That is an undeniable f a c t.
The two pictures that I found on their website in 2023 were actually evidence that Ukraine owned already Russian BUKs in 2008. Which is not strange at all, because Ukraine did not produce BUKs. Ukraine had these BUKs to defend itself against the west. Ukraine itself never felt the need to join NATO. The Ukrainian disinterest in becoming a NATO member is shown in reliable maps (Gallup), to be found in the MH17 blogpost. All this is important info however in the investigation of the downing of the MH17, so important that Bellingcat has removed the pictures. This is my hypothesis. It seems so, according to what is to be found on the web via “friend” Google, that Bellingcat and MH17 are also intertwined. Interesting!
About the BUKs in Ukraine:
“Ukraine does not manufacture entirely new Buk air defense missile systems, but began domestic production of upgraded anti-air missiles and system modifications during the full-scale war. The effort to modify existing Soviet-era Buk-M1 launchers to fire Western missiles began in late 2023.” – Source: IISS, February 24, 2025
The Bellingcat “research”, available on their website, is western propaganda3. Not strange when one finds via our “friend” Google who the Bellingcat sponsors are. What Bellingcat published however has been debunked by a.o.:
The Bellingcat disinformation made me decide to expose the founder of Bellingcat, to expose his one-sided anti-Russia approach, as a blogger, and a self-acclaimed journalist without any official education and therefore not educated in the ethics of journalism, and not an expert in the field of history, or politics. He has been used by the collective west as their useful idiot. He has been made complicit in all evil that is coming, created by NATO expansion, western propaganda, and deliberately provoking Russia (admitted by Jens Stoltenberg, source), making Russians’ blood boil, and reason why Russia is forced to react. The west will get where it is, and was, undeniably begging for. The west is waiting for the answer on their brutal provocations. Yes, the war was provoked. Jens, thanks for admitting this. All by independent investigative journalists and other experts (check list) published articles, and analytical discussions show that the war was provoked. But the provocations only increased.
When sooner or later the Big Boys and Big Girls in Europe, the collective west, learn to know the reality of the escalating provoked aggression of Russia, they must stay Big Boys and Big Girls also then, take the consequences of their own western provocations, and not cowardly blaming the Russians for it.
! Attention: a video, published July 17, 2021: MH17 witness brings Bellingcat to justice, and the video Bellingcat Scams MH17 Warplane Witness, published a year earlier, on July 14, 2020. Highlighted in it is the name Pieter Huis, and therefore it is interesting to check this PDF and screenshot, that I made on May 23, 2026, from the Bellingcat website. Furthermore: Playlist MH17, including discussions and documentaries. More details about Bellingcat, watch “GRU Assets“ with Max van der Werff (investigative Dutch journalist) and Yana Yerlashova (director, producer & documentary filmmaker). Both have realized the documentary: MH17 – Call For Justice, published on July 17, 2019.
2. How a simple, preoccupied amateur blogger could get an honorary doctorate (and why the university has to withdraw it)
Despite that what is written in the former chapter,
“[…]he [Eliot Higgins, Admin] was awarded in 2025 an honorary doctorate by Leiden University for his contributions to the use of open source intelligence
[the term “intelligence” has to be changed into “disinformation”, since “intelligence” is referring to in-depth thinking, independent, and Bellingcat itself shows, proves, not to be independent at all, even contributing to western propaganda, creating disinformation, and lies; in our time the term “intelligence” is abused everywhere and not guaranteeing per se real intelligence, deep knowledge, awareness and ethics; the CIA is also intelligence, also MI6, but shown to be corrupted, see article: “CIA: Undermining and Nazifying Ukraine Since 1953”, Admin]
– gathering and analysing information from publicly available sources
[publicly available “sources”: like videos, articles, published on YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, X, etc. are used by Higgins to prove delicts of what opposes the west’s view on justice, what opposes their propaganda. It is a fact that the most of all the existing profiles in the social media do not offer a real name, use a fake profile picture, do not offer a link to a website, or any education. But also a lot of so-called science, published on PubMed, and other science platforms, and publishing so-called “peer reviewed” articles can be corrupted, this has been shown.
The most essential factor in the total of information, is the one who is an expert in analysing the utterly carefulcollected —not cherry picked— information from empirically proven to be reliable sources, and putting the information into the right and complete context. That context is directly related to the complete and most detailed knowledge —if there, and otherwise honestly mentioning not to be informed good enough to judge— of for example historical facts, economical developments etc, able to analyse political leaders and judge in the correct way their characteristics and behaviour, because of many decades long serious observations, not affected by personal emotions, wishes or preferences. He does not push the listener into any specific direction. Since I follow him now for several years, almost daily, I have learned to know Alexander Mercouris as one of the most sincere, reliable and the most intelligent political analysts in the world, weighing his words on a golden scale to avoid misunderstanding or to offend someone. He is also a unique educator who makes difficult subjects easy to understand for all. He creates deep insights, awareness, has a fabulous memory, and an overall picture of a certain subject.
Since Higgins turns out to be a useful western propaganda parrot, it is obvious that he uses only “sources” that fit in his assumptions, half truths, twisted truths, and lies, and the assumptions of all who embrace him because of his western propaganda, like the University of Leiden. It should be forbidden that universities welcome anonymous “sources” and taking their “info” so serious that these “can be used to guarantee historical accuracy and fair judicial process: data that can also be used as evidence in international criminal cases”. As happened with the Bellingcat “evidence”, to corrupt the MH17 investigations and even the trial. – Admin]
– to guarantee historical accuracy
[historical accuracy is completely absent in western propaganda, or twisted, or silenced, or deliberately neglected- Admin]
and fair judicial process: data that can also be used as evidence in international criminal cases
[propaganda and the word “fair” in “fair judicial process: data that can also be used as evidence in international criminal cases” do not match with each other. Propaganda is promoting just one side of the medal. The word “judicial”4 is related with justice, that choses what is right, truth, the full truth, and therefore neutral. The word judicial shows that it is impossible that propaganda can be used in a judicial process.]
Sciencecannot be committed to any particular beliefs, dogmas, or ideologies.
Attention: The preoccupied Higgins (pro-western collective and anti-Russia) found his “science” in the social media, and other open sources, and created “truth” out of his puzzling with what he found there, and was fitting in his anti-Russia mindset, and anti-Russia attitude. He said: ‘Ban algorithms on social media, they poison our democracy‘ but the term democracy is falsely used: Higgins is collecting and publishing only that what serves his beliefs, dogma’s and ideologies. In a democracy all views are welcome, and censorship and propaganda are characteristics of totalitarianism. Not of democracy. The EU in Brussels shows to be transforming into a totalitarian regime5. University Leiden is abusing the term “university”, since the term is derived from the Latin universitas, meaning “the whole”. Leiden University rejects the whole, and supports propaganda for just one detail of the whole. This is directly related to 1.: NATO’s Cognitive Warfare. 2.: Dr. Tögel: State Terrorism and Cognitive Warfare – Understanding Propaganda. 3.: NATO Targeting EU Citizen’s Brains(Dr. Jonas Tögel). 4.: Massformation, mass psychosis, mass hypnosis (Dr. Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism)
3. Who is Eliot Higgins?
! Attention: the words that are not correctly used, or related with bias, libel and slander, when “analysis” or “investigations” are provided by Bellingcat, and therefore disinformation and propaganda, are coloured with yellow, and also footnotes have been added.
Eliot Higgins is a British journalist and founder of investigative website Bellingcat. He is a well-known supporter6 of open source and free to access information which is reflected by his work and lectures7.
After high school Higgins studied media technology at Southampton Institute for Higher Education. He ultimately dropped out and became interested in investigative journalism after some years of working administrative jobs. At this point he had already been blogging under the pseudonym ‘Brown Moses’. Whilst watching something on the conflict in Lybia in 2011, Higgins noticed the great amount of relevant8 information posted on social media that got ignored because it couldn’t be verified9. This was the first time he applied the ‘Bellingcat method,’ which means cunningly combining footage10, maps and other online information11 to answer questions on serious subjects such as bombardments and assassinations.
This raised Higgins’ enthusiasm for the job after which he founded Bellingcat. These days the investigation initiative has dozens of organizations and philanthropists to fund its activities and has grown to a renowned collective. Famous and influential investigations of the website include the ones on the War in Ukraine12, the crash of MH-1713, the Syrian Civil War14, the Yemeni Civil War and the poisoning of the supposed Russian double agent Sergei Skripal15,16,17 and his daughter.
Higgins and Bellingcat are currently preoccupied with lots of similar investigations and other projects. Amongst these, Higgins is mainly excited about the development of a reverse-image search for online videos.
My accusations are based on the fact that Higgins is embraced by the mainstream media, while those who contradict the mainstream media are banned from the mainstream media, banned from the common talk shows, silenced, ignored, and categorized as conspiracy theorists, Putinists, liars, spreading disinformation, while speaking truth. This automatically shows that Bellingcat and its owner: Higgins, spread disinformation, lies, and propaganda, contribute to warmongering, Russophia, and guilty of obstructing / blocking peace talks. ↩︎
Judicial relates to the administration of justice, courts of law, or the functions of a judge. It typically describes anything connected to the legal system, legal judgments, or the branch of government responsible for interpreting and applying the law. Source: Cambridge Dictionary. ↩︎
The word supporter is a scam. Higgins is doing the opposite: he is undermining the evidence of real investigative journalism, of science. ↩︎
The word “lecture” is related with professors and doctors who educate at universities. Higgins is NOT a professor, NOT a doctor. He has not finished any study, has not any education in journalism and does not know the ethics of journalism. ↩︎
relevant information posted on social media: a misused term, because he and he alone decided that it was relevant, because fitting within his own bubble of assumptions, and meant in another way: information that was different from what he found generally, and posted there by unknown profiles, that he categorizes as reliable sources. ↩︎
Verified: so, he took info, that could not be verified as truth, and was verifying it by using it for his Bellingcat posts. This is making science, facts, out of what is most likely nonsense. This is making science out of his own assumptions. This is anti-science. ↩︎
footage: there are a lot of footages available on social media, and deliberately edited, falsified, and not reliable, unless the source is known, and proven to be reliable, on the long term. ↩︎
online information: there are a lot of online information available, and deliberately edited, falsified, and not reliable, unless the source is known, and proven to be reliable, on the long term. A scientist does not do his work or job in this way. An investigative journalist not either. ↩︎
The war in Ukraine: for the real facts go to: Books, in the menu above, check the list, and the playlists. ↩︎
For in-depth and reliable information about the war in Syria, watch the videos published by Kevork Almassian, who hosts the channel Syriana Analysis. ↩︎
Max Milo playlist: L’Affaire Navalny / Book Jacques Baud: L’Affaire Navalny. Jacques Baud is a former member of Swiss strategic intelligence, a specialist in Eastern European countries, and head of the United Nations peacekeeping operations doctrine. He was involved in negotiations with top Russian military and intelligence officials immediately after the collapse of the USSR. Within NATO, he participated in programs in Ukraine, notably during the Maidan Revolution in 2014. Jacques Baud is sanctioned by the EU, since December 2025. What does this mean?↩︎
Edited: October 31, 2025 (Instagram info was added)
This blog post concerns a video in which Dr. Tögel1 explains how mainstream media is used for propaganda and cognitive warfare2. He goes into great detail about what is being said, what is being claimed, and what is true or false. The video concerns the German ZDF broadcast, published on October 23rd, titled “Markus Lanz.”3 Markus Lanz4 moderates the interview with guests: Georg Mascolo5, Katja Kloger6, and Andrey Gurkov7.
Dr. Jonas Tögel:
When I watched the “Markus Lanz” program from October 23, 2025, and analyzed it for war propaganda, I was immediately struck by how one-sided the choice of guests was: Both Katja Gloger and her husband, Georg Mascolo, are members of the “Atlantikbrücke” – a transatlantic think tank that receives funding from, among others, banks and the German Foreign Office. Unfortunately, Markus Lanz did not introduce either of them as transatlantic lobbyists. The selection of guests thus plays a significant role: I myself have experienced firsthand that one is not invited to talk shows if one does not represent the desired positions. Source Instagram
The “Markus Lanz” show from October 23rd is a good example of how the same issues can be presented very differently: In the program, it’s perfectly acceptable to discuss state terrorism: terrorist attacks are carried out by one’s own intelligence services, for which an enemy is blamed, against whom war can now be waged under the pretext of “terrorism.” When it comes to the 1999 terrorist attacks in Moscow and the Russian KGB/FSB is the possible perpetrator, such considerations are not only permissible but even probable. However, when it comes to September 11, 2001, and American intelligence services as possible perpetrators, such considerations are not allowed and are dismissed as “conspiracy theories.” I find that astonishing. Source Instagram
Because the mainstreampropaganda system, explained in detail in this video, is not only used in Germany, the video is published here, so that we all can learn how the crowds are mislead, brainwashed. The video is subtitled. Choose your language in the menu bar. The menu bar becomes visible after you have clicked the red YT start button.
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists – Georg Mascolo – https://www.icij.org/journalists/georg-mascolo “Georg Mascolo, Germany, is a bestselling author and journalist who worked for nearly 25 years for the Spiegel Group. From 2008 until 2013, he was editor-in-chief of Spiegel magazine. From 2014 until 2022, he was the head of the Joint Investigative Group of Süddeutsche Zeitung and the two German public broadcasters WDR and NDR. Mascolo has been an ICIJ member since 1998. He has been the dean of the Bucerius Summer School on Global Governance since 2017. In 2014, he was named Political Journalist of the Year by the influential professional journal Medium Magazin.”↩︎
Journalismusfest Innsbruck – Katja Gloger – https://www.journalismusfest.org/en/katja-gloger-2 “Katja Gloger studied Eastern European history, Political science and Slavic studies in Hamburg and Moscow. After graduating from the German School of Journalism in Munich, she became a TV-reporter for WDR Radio and Television in Cologne. From 1989 on she was based as correspondent for the weekly Stern in Moscow.. Gloger interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin, whom she accompanied for months as the first Western correspondent. She later headed the foreign desk of Stern and was posted as senior political correspondent to Washington, D.C. Honored with the Henri-Nannen-Award and named political “Journalist of the Year” she now works as a freelance journalist and book author focusing on Russia and Security Policy. Her books include Putin’s World: The New Russia, Ukraine and the West; Stranger Friends: Germans and Russians. The Story of a Fateful Relationship and the bestseller Outbreak: Insights into a Pandemic. She is a regular guest on German radio and television, panelist and moderator of discussions on Russia and international affairs. In her honorary capacity, she is Spokesperson and Executive Member of the Board of RSF Reporters without Borders, Germany. She lives in Berlin.”↩︎
Lecture (2023) by Dr. Jonas Tögel, published on September 10, 2025 (subtitled)
Dr. Jonas Tögel is a German psychologist, American studies scholar, propaganda researcher, and bestselling author. He works as a research associate at the Institute of Psychology at the University of Regensburg. His motivation is to help people recognize, understand, and neutralize manipulation in everyday life and propaganda. In doing so, he is committed to strengthening his audience’s resilience so that one can remain peaceful, positive, and able to act even in difficult times. Website: Dr. Jonas Tögel
“When I gave my lecture on NATO’s cognitive warfare in spring 2023, it was not foreseeable how much the threat of war in Europe would increase. Today it is clear that cognitive warfare has divided populations, weakened the peace movement, and that it is therefore possible to continue to push forward with rearmament and a new, major war in Europe. What is needed now is an understanding of the mechanisms of war propaganda and a determined, shared, and loud desire for peace.” – Dr. Jonas Tögel
Quote: “[…..] we first discuss how to define “misinformation”, and how it relates to various other commonly used terms such as “disinformation” and “fake news”. Next, we examine the psychology of correcting misinformation: what happens when someone is exposed to a fact check, and what are the benefits and drawbacks of correcting misinformation once the damage is already done? Finally, we discuss how to build psychological resilience against misinformation through psychological “vaccines” or “inoculation”: we look at the theoretical background of inoculation theory (dating back to the 1960s), its modern application within the context of online misinformation (in online games and educational videos), and future prospects and research avenues in the field.“
Attention: Both authors are professors at the university of Cambridge: check Jon Roozenbeek and Sander van der Linden. The biography on their Cambridge profile doesn’t mention any collaboration with NATO or writing for NATO. There’s no link to the NATO document “Inoculation Theory and Misinformation”. Why not? There must be a reason. There’s no link to their Cambridge profile on the NATO profile. Check: Jon Roozenbeek and Sander van der Linden. Why not? Conclusion: That, which cannot stand the light of day, is being concealed. Both professors have prostituted their knowledge regarding the possibility of brain manipulation, and NATO is the pimp.
In case the page will be removed from the NATO website, and all denied, today, October 11, 2025 this PDF has been created. The from the NATO website downloaded file: PDF
Screenshot taken October 11, 2025, from the NATO website.
LECTURE by DR. JONAS TÖGEL, German psychologist, American studies scholar, propaganda researcher, and bestselling author. He works as a research associate at the Institute of Psychology at the University of Regensburg. His motivation is to help people recognize, understand, and neutralize manipulation in everyday life and propaganda. In doing so, he is committed to strengthening his audience’s resilience so that one can remain peaceful, positive, and able to act even in difficult times. Website: Dr. Jonas Tögel
Part 1: NATO vs. Russia – Understanding Geostrategy (subtitles available) Published: October 5, 2025
Part 2. Going to war with geostrategy? Published: October 8, 2025
