Jason Jay Smart
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Джейсон Джей Смарт, PhD. Writes at KyivPost.com. Check out the latest: YT & Substack: @jasonjaysmart.
🔥 Russia’s peace talks are a survival tactic. The 2026 budget is in the red, the aviation fleet is being cannibalized, and the regime is out of options.
👉 Putin is on the Ceaușescu path: projecting power while the foundation of the state turns to dust.
youtu.be/kGaCbhwf8Pg
👉 Putin is on the Ceaușescu path: projecting power while the foundation of the state turns to dust.
youtu.be/kGaCbhwf8Pg
Kremlin Admits Refinery Hit: Fuel Shock Spreads
YouTube video by Jason Jay Smart
youtu.be
January 22, 2026 at 7:46 PM
🔥 Russia’s peace talks are a survival tactic. The 2026 budget is in the red, the aviation fleet is being cannibalized, and the regime is out of options.
👉 Putin is on the Ceaușescu path: projecting power while the foundation of the state turns to dust.
youtu.be/kGaCbhwf8Pg
👉 Putin is on the Ceaușescu path: projecting power while the foundation of the state turns to dust.
youtu.be/kGaCbhwf8Pg
⚡️⚡️⚡️ We just hit #1 Rising in World Politics on Substack.
👉 Readers are choosing consequence-driven geopolitics over hot takes & headlines.
See what’s happening; the effects will reach far beyond Ukraine 🇺🇦.
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👉 Readers are choosing consequence-driven geopolitics over hot takes & headlines.
See what’s happening; the effects will reach far beyond Ukraine 🇺🇦.
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The Next War Is Our Fault
"Davos can name the rupture, but only consequences can stop it."
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January 21, 2026 at 10:55 PM
⚡️⚡️⚡️ We just hit #1 Rising in World Politics on Substack.
👉 Readers are choosing consequence-driven geopolitics over hot takes & headlines.
See what’s happening; the effects will reach far beyond Ukraine 🇺🇦.
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
👉 Readers are choosing consequence-driven geopolitics over hot takes & headlines.
See what’s happening; the effects will reach far beyond Ukraine 🇺🇦.
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
⚡️⚡️Russia continues to wage war against Christianity.
Beyond clearing Protestants & Catholics from the temporarily-occupied territories, the Kremlin now has a new enemy:
👉 Moscow has declared war on Orthodoxy.
www.kyivpost.com/videos/68425
Beyond clearing Protestants & Catholics from the temporarily-occupied territories, the Kremlin now has a new enemy:
👉 Moscow has declared war on Orthodoxy.
www.kyivpost.com/videos/68425
Russian Spies vs. Orthodox Church
Russia’s SVR casts the Ecumenical Patriarch as a Western proxy, treating Baltic church independence as a security threat and turning an Orthodox dispute into an intelligence confrontation.
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January 20, 2026 at 5:42 PM
⚡️⚡️Russia continues to wage war against Christianity.
Beyond clearing Protestants & Catholics from the temporarily-occupied territories, the Kremlin now has a new enemy:
👉 Moscow has declared war on Orthodoxy.
www.kyivpost.com/videos/68425
Beyond clearing Protestants & Catholics from the temporarily-occupied territories, the Kremlin now has a new enemy:
👉 Moscow has declared war on Orthodoxy.
www.kyivpost.com/videos/68425
🔥 Greenland reality:
📌Only 3/100 U.S. senators are on record backing a buy/lease. The other 97 are opposed or silent.
📌Only 17% of Americans approve buying Greenland.
📌Even GOP support is only 40% nationally.
📌Only 4% back military force.
👉This is a distraction tactic: Trump will not act.
📌Only 3/100 U.S. senators are on record backing a buy/lease. The other 97 are opposed or silent.
📌Only 17% of Americans approve buying Greenland.
📌Even GOP support is only 40% nationally.
📌Only 4% back military force.
👉This is a distraction tactic: Trump will not act.
January 19, 2026 at 7:54 PM
🔥 Greenland reality:
📌Only 3/100 U.S. senators are on record backing a buy/lease. The other 97 are opposed or silent.
📌Only 17% of Americans approve buying Greenland.
📌Even GOP support is only 40% nationally.
📌Only 4% back military force.
👉This is a distraction tactic: Trump will not act.
📌Only 3/100 U.S. senators are on record backing a buy/lease. The other 97 are opposed or silent.
📌Only 17% of Americans approve buying Greenland.
📌Even GOP support is only 40% nationally.
📌Only 4% back military force.
👉This is a distraction tactic: Trump will not act.
🔥 The Chechen Kadyrov dynasty is collapsing. With Ramzan ill and his heir, Adam, in a critical crash, the thread holding Russia together is snapping.
👉 This could shake up the Putin Regime.
youtu.be/ZzBT9ZGAlK8
👉 This could shake up the Putin Regime.
youtu.be/ZzBT9ZGAlK8
Chechnya Is Now Putin’s Weakest Front
YouTube video by Jason Jay Smart
youtu.be
January 19, 2026 at 6:49 PM
🔥 The Chechen Kadyrov dynasty is collapsing. With Ramzan ill and his heir, Adam, in a critical crash, the thread holding Russia together is snapping.
👉 This could shake up the Putin Regime.
youtu.be/ZzBT9ZGAlK8
👉 This could shake up the Putin Regime.
youtu.be/ZzBT9ZGAlK8
🔥 Triple catastrophe for Kremlin: Belgorod, Russia being evacuated, generals fired, and their spy agency claims the “Antichrist” is working with MI6 to attack Russia.
👉 Kremlin is on the brink. youtu.be/IV5_NhjPOeg
👉 Kremlin is on the brink. youtu.be/IV5_NhjPOeg
Russia Orders Evacuations INSIDE Russia
YouTube video by Jason Jay Smart
youtu.be
January 16, 2026 at 7:45 PM
🔥 Triple catastrophe for Kremlin: Belgorod, Russia being evacuated, generals fired, and their spy agency claims the “Antichrist” is working with MI6 to attack Russia.
👉 Kremlin is on the brink. youtu.be/IV5_NhjPOeg
👉 Kremlin is on the brink. youtu.be/IV5_NhjPOeg
Walking through beautiful snow tonight… And there is light!
In Kyiv 🇺🇦, nights are dark and bitterly cold, as Russia tries to break the grid & the spirit.
It will not work.
👉 Ukraine’s victory is one day closer.
In Kyiv 🇺🇦, nights are dark and bitterly cold, as Russia tries to break the grid & the spirit.
It will not work.
👉 Ukraine’s victory is one day closer.
January 15, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Walking through beautiful snow tonight… And there is light!
In Kyiv 🇺🇦, nights are dark and bitterly cold, as Russia tries to break the grid & the spirit.
It will not work.
👉 Ukraine’s victory is one day closer.
In Kyiv 🇺🇦, nights are dark and bitterly cold, as Russia tries to break the grid & the spirit.
It will not work.
👉 Ukraine’s victory is one day closer.
🔥 The Kremlin’s "safe" rear is gone. Strikes in the Caspian Sea and a 75% drop in recruitment bonuses show a regime that is running out of options.
👉 Ukraine has broken the loop Putin needs to survive, forcing Moscow to react to a war it can no longer afford.
youtu.be/cyDVoGlcZ5U
👉 Ukraine has broken the loop Putin needs to survive, forcing Moscow to react to a war it can no longer afford.
youtu.be/cyDVoGlcZ5U
Russia Is Now Losing INSIDE Russia
YouTube video by Jason Jay Smart
youtu.be
January 12, 2026 at 6:57 PM
🔥 The Kremlin’s "safe" rear is gone. Strikes in the Caspian Sea and a 75% drop in recruitment bonuses show a regime that is running out of options.
👉 Ukraine has broken the loop Putin needs to survive, forcing Moscow to react to a war it can no longer afford.
youtu.be/cyDVoGlcZ5U
👉 Ukraine has broken the loop Putin needs to survive, forcing Moscow to react to a war it can no longer afford.
youtu.be/cyDVoGlcZ5U
🔥 Russia hypes "Oreshnik", but Ukraine’s Volgograd strike proves the missile changes nothing. Speed can't fix broken logistics.
With a $29B budget hole, Putin faces a fatal trilemma: fund War, Police, or Economy. He can't afford all 3.
👉 Missiles win headlines. Fuel wins wars. youtu.be/ebhMvbT2f-Y
With a $29B budget hole, Putin faces a fatal trilemma: fund War, Police, or Economy. He can't afford all 3.
👉 Missiles win headlines. Fuel wins wars. youtu.be/ebhMvbT2f-Y
Kremlin Nuclear Bluff EXPOSED: Putin Out Of Moves
YouTube video by Jason Jay Smart
youtu.be
January 11, 2026 at 6:52 PM
🔥 Russia hypes "Oreshnik", but Ukraine’s Volgograd strike proves the missile changes nothing. Speed can't fix broken logistics.
With a $29B budget hole, Putin faces a fatal trilemma: fund War, Police, or Economy. He can't afford all 3.
👉 Missiles win headlines. Fuel wins wars. youtu.be/ebhMvbT2f-Y
With a $29B budget hole, Putin faces a fatal trilemma: fund War, Police, or Economy. He can't afford all 3.
👉 Missiles win headlines. Fuel wins wars. youtu.be/ebhMvbT2f-Y
⚡️⚡️ Friends, we are living through a historic moment: The world is on fire, and there is a growing sense that we are standing on the edge of profound change.
I proudly serve as a special correspondent for Kyiv Post.
👉 Who would you recommend that I interview for Kyiv Post?
I proudly serve as a special correspondent for Kyiv Post.
👉 Who would you recommend that I interview for Kyiv Post?
January 11, 2026 at 3:24 AM
⚡️⚡️ Friends, we are living through a historic moment: The world is on fire, and there is a growing sense that we are standing on the edge of profound change.
I proudly serve as a special correspondent for Kyiv Post.
👉 Who would you recommend that I interview for Kyiv Post?
I proudly serve as a special correspondent for Kyiv Post.
👉 Who would you recommend that I interview for Kyiv Post?
🔥🔥🔥 Protests in Iran Spread
📌 Large-scale & violent unrest across EVERY major Iranian city
📌 Protesters have seized Mashhad, Iran’s 2nd-largest city
📌 A prosecutor in North Khorasan was set afire
📌 In past 39 days Rial has lost > 56% against Euro
👉 Freedom is coming.
📌 Large-scale & violent unrest across EVERY major Iranian city
📌 Protesters have seized Mashhad, Iran’s 2nd-largest city
📌 A prosecutor in North Khorasan was set afire
📌 In past 39 days Rial has lost > 56% against Euro
👉 Freedom is coming.
January 10, 2026 at 1:28 AM
🔥🔥🔥 Protests in Iran Spread
📌 Large-scale & violent unrest across EVERY major Iranian city
📌 Protesters have seized Mashhad, Iran’s 2nd-largest city
📌 A prosecutor in North Khorasan was set afire
📌 In past 39 days Rial has lost > 56% against Euro
👉 Freedom is coming.
📌 Large-scale & violent unrest across EVERY major Iranian city
📌 Protesters have seized Mashhad, Iran’s 2nd-largest city
📌 A prosecutor in North Khorasan was set afire
📌 In past 39 days Rial has lost > 56% against Euro
👉 Freedom is coming.
🔥🔥 The vibe in Tehran.
January 9, 2026 at 1:42 AM
🔥🔥 The vibe in Tehran.
🔥 The US Navy just seized TWO of Putin’s oil tankers. Moscow sent a submarine to stop it, but it failed.
👉 Physical sanctions are here, and Russia’s shadow fleet is crumbling.
youtu.be/NqOgS9QXOSg
👉 Physical sanctions are here, and Russia’s shadow fleet is crumbling.
youtu.be/NqOgS9QXOSg
US CAPTURES Russian Tanker
YouTube video by Jason Jay Smart
youtu.be
January 8, 2026 at 5:48 PM
🔥 The US Navy just seized TWO of Putin’s oil tankers. Moscow sent a submarine to stop it, but it failed.
👉 Physical sanctions are here, and Russia’s shadow fleet is crumbling.
youtu.be/NqOgS9QXOSg
👉 Physical sanctions are here, and Russia’s shadow fleet is crumbling.
youtu.be/NqOgS9QXOSg
🔥🔥 Leading Putin expert David Satter plays a key role in this chilling BBC special on Putin’s rise.
It explores the 1999 Russian apartment bombings - blamed on Chechens, but FSB-organized to launch Putin’s rise to power.
A must-listen.👇
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
It explores the 1999 Russian apartment bombings - blamed on Chechens, but FSB-organized to launch Putin’s rise to power.
A must-listen.👇
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
The History Bureau
History Podcast · Weekly series · If journalism is the first draft of history, what happens if that draft turns out to be flawed?
The History Bureau revisits the defining stories of our times with the...
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January 8, 2026 at 3:09 PM
🔥🔥 Leading Putin expert David Satter plays a key role in this chilling BBC special on Putin’s rise.
It explores the 1999 Russian apartment bombings - blamed on Chechens, but FSB-organized to launch Putin’s rise to power.
A must-listen.👇
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
It explores the 1999 Russian apartment bombings - blamed on Chechens, but FSB-organized to launch Putin’s rise to power.
A must-listen.👇
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
🔥🔥🔥 In Tehran crowds gather shouting “Death to Khamenei.”
January 8, 2026 at 12:33 AM
🔥🔥🔥 In Tehran crowds gather shouting “Death to Khamenei.”
🔥🔥🔥 Russia now owns one less oil base in Belgorod.
January 6, 2026 at 10:57 PM
🔥🔥🔥 Russia now owns one less oil base in Belgorod.
🔥🔥🔥 Protests in Iran are only intensifying, despite the brutal crackdowns and dozens of deaths.
January 6, 2026 at 10:54 PM
🔥🔥🔥 Protests in Iran are only intensifying, despite the brutal crackdowns and dozens of deaths.
🔥🔥🔥 Residents of Fardis, Iran are setting fire to the Islamic Republic’s City Council building.
👉 The crowds are growing across Iran.
👉 The crowds are growing across Iran.
January 6, 2026 at 10:52 PM
🔥🔥🔥 Residents of Fardis, Iran are setting fire to the Islamic Republic’s City Council building.
👉 The crowds are growing across Iran.
👉 The crowds are growing across Iran.
🔥 Tehran is shaking. Moscow is isolated.
The Iranian economy is collapsing, and with it, Putin’s hope for a strong alliance. History proves Russia betrays its friends, and Tehran knows it.
👉 The global power narrative is dead. Russia is on its own.
youtu.be/HGBAG_dkwbo
The Iranian economy is collapsing, and with it, Putin’s hope for a strong alliance. History proves Russia betrays its friends, and Tehran knows it.
👉 The global power narrative is dead. Russia is on its own.
youtu.be/HGBAG_dkwbo
Putin’s Last Lifeline Is BREAKING
YouTube video by Jason Jay Smart
youtu.be
January 6, 2026 at 6:51 PM
🔥 Tehran is shaking. Moscow is isolated.
The Iranian economy is collapsing, and with it, Putin’s hope for a strong alliance. History proves Russia betrays its friends, and Tehran knows it.
👉 The global power narrative is dead. Russia is on its own.
youtu.be/HGBAG_dkwbo
The Iranian economy is collapsing, and with it, Putin’s hope for a strong alliance. History proves Russia betrays its friends, and Tehran knows it.
👉 The global power narrative is dead. Russia is on its own.
youtu.be/HGBAG_dkwbo
🔥 The global oil market just handed the Kremlin a verdict it cannot appeal: scarcity is dead. Surplus is the new law.
Russia’s “oil weapon” just misfired - and its leverage is shrinking fast.
👉 Watch now: youtu.be/WuTITvz4rMU
Russia’s “oil weapon” just misfired - and its leverage is shrinking fast.
👉 Watch now: youtu.be/WuTITvz4rMU
The Kremlin Just Lost ALL Its Leverage
YouTube video by Jason Jay Smart
youtu.be
January 5, 2026 at 7:02 PM
🔥 The global oil market just handed the Kremlin a verdict it cannot appeal: scarcity is dead. Surplus is the new law.
Russia’s “oil weapon” just misfired - and its leverage is shrinking fast.
👉 Watch now: youtu.be/WuTITvz4rMU
Russia’s “oil weapon” just misfired - and its leverage is shrinking fast.
👉 Watch now: youtu.be/WuTITvz4rMU
⚡⚡Russia’s power relies on three engines: Spies, Proxies, and Criminal Logistics. All three are fracturing at once. North Korean ammo isn’t an alliance—it’s proof the industrial base has failed. When the network is visible, it can be squeezed.
👉 Russia is losing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXfp...
👉 Russia is losing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXfp...
Putin’s Proxy Empire Quickly IMPLODES
YouTube video by Jason Jay Smart
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January 4, 2026 at 6:08 PM
⚡⚡Russia’s power relies on three engines: Spies, Proxies, and Criminal Logistics. All three are fracturing at once. North Korean ammo isn’t an alliance—it’s proof the industrial base has failed. When the network is visible, it can be squeezed.
👉 Russia is losing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXfp...
👉 Russia is losing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXfp...
🔥 Maduro is gone. Assad is gone. Now Putin is alone: The "Dictator's Club" is collapsing.
👉 Russia has an additional worry: Gen. Budanov is now running the strategy to bring that same collapse inside Russia’s borders.
youtu.be/s9IG8HC9KTA?...
👉 Russia has an additional worry: Gen. Budanov is now running the strategy to bring that same collapse inside Russia’s borders.
youtu.be/s9IG8HC9KTA?...
Maduro GONE: Now Budanov Targets Putin’s REAR
YouTube video by Jason Jay Smart
youtu.be
January 3, 2026 at 7:06 PM
🔥 Maduro is gone. Assad is gone. Now Putin is alone: The "Dictator's Club" is collapsing.
👉 Russia has an additional worry: Gen. Budanov is now running the strategy to bring that same collapse inside Russia’s borders.
youtu.be/s9IG8HC9KTA?...
👉 Russia has an additional worry: Gen. Budanov is now running the strategy to bring that same collapse inside Russia’s borders.
youtu.be/s9IG8HC9KTA?...
🔥 Another Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps vehicle was set on fire.
👉 Freedom is coming to the people of Iran.
👉 Freedom is coming to the people of Iran.
January 2, 2026 at 11:45 PM
🔥 Another Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps vehicle was set on fire.
👉 Freedom is coming to the people of Iran.
👉 Freedom is coming to the people of Iran.
In Warsaw, Poland🇵🇱, there is a statue to Pres. Ronald Reagan🇺🇸.
📌 Reagan, a Republican, understood the USSR was not an ally.
📌 He knew it was an enemy to be stopped, not coddled.
📌 He would be aghast by how many folks today forget this truth.
👉 Putin won’t stop until he’s stopped.
📌 Reagan, a Republican, understood the USSR was not an ally.
📌 He knew it was an enemy to be stopped, not coddled.
📌 He would be aghast by how many folks today forget this truth.
👉 Putin won’t stop until he’s stopped.
January 2, 2026 at 2:10 PM
In Warsaw, Poland🇵🇱, there is a statue to Pres. Ronald Reagan🇺🇸.
📌 Reagan, a Republican, understood the USSR was not an ally.
📌 He knew it was an enemy to be stopped, not coddled.
📌 He would be aghast by how many folks today forget this truth.
👉 Putin won’t stop until he’s stopped.
📌 Reagan, a Republican, understood the USSR was not an ally.
📌 He knew it was an enemy to be stopped, not coddled.
📌 He would be aghast by how many folks today forget this truth.
👉 Putin won’t stop until he’s stopped.
‼️ This is not a video of Putin delivering his New Year’s speech. It is AI: An image being animated.
👉 Notice the "floating head" anomaly: face moves while collar is pixel-perfect static; abnormal blinking; mouth stretches artificially; rubbery suit vs mouth is sharp.
Is he really alive?
👉 Notice the "floating head" anomaly: face moves while collar is pixel-perfect static; abnormal blinking; mouth stretches artificially; rubbery suit vs mouth is sharp.
Is he really alive?
January 2, 2026 at 2:44 AM
‼️ This is not a video of Putin delivering his New Year’s speech. It is AI: An image being animated.
👉 Notice the "floating head" anomaly: face moves while collar is pixel-perfect static; abnormal blinking; mouth stretches artificially; rubbery suit vs mouth is sharp.
Is he really alive?
👉 Notice the "floating head" anomaly: face moves while collar is pixel-perfect static; abnormal blinking; mouth stretches artificially; rubbery suit vs mouth is sharp.
Is he really alive?