Strelkov Igor Ivanovich, January 3 2026
IGOR STRELKOV: FORECAST FOR 2026
Naturally, no compromise will be reached this year, because there can't be one. I hope this has finally sunk in on everyone on Planet Pink.
The situation will continue to escalate. I believe that after some time, Trump will demand that we accept the plan agreed upon with the US and Ukraine. After we refuse, they will roll out new sanctions, and they will unleash new members of the "coalition of the willing" against us. It's quite possible that as early as this year, Russian troops will have to contend with units and formations of this coalition on the front lines.
It's highly likely that Turkey will finally join the ranks of our open enemies. It's entirely possible that Romania will also end up among our direct enemies after it, together with Ukraine, clears out Transnistria.
And we can predict with almost 100% certainty that sanctions and a naval blockade will be tightened by the European Union and elsewhere, which will further worsen our foreign trade and further reduce the state's income from hydrocarbon exports.
The rest depends largely on whether we finally get our heads together - well, at least not us, but our leaders. And whether they, even now, four years late, will begin to take the necessary measures to mobilize the economy, to mobilize the country for war.
If this does not happen, then nothing good will change within a year; everything will continue to slowly, with constant acceleration, roll towards the worse, roll towards our defeat in the war.
Because 4 years is already too much, and any more would mean exhausting Russia much more than exhausting its opponents.
The fact that the war is being waged on Ukrainian territory is, of course, exhausting for Ukraine. But in the eyes of our enemies, Ukraine is a part of Russia that is not a pity. And waging war on Russian territory is quite convenient for them, and they will continue to do so.
If we don't want to win, we'll exhaust not only the breakaway and rebellious region of Russia, but ourselves as well. Overall, I don't have any good predictions for this year yet, because there are no positive signs.
Within the country, stagnation will continue for some time, in the sense that the deadened, degenerate political elites will continue to govern the country as wildly ineffectively, with even greater deterioration in the changing conditions for the worse, as they do now.
There are some positive signs, but they are so weak and so annihilated by simultaneous opposing actions that it is, in my opinion, impossible to talk about any positive change in the country now.
When patriotism and national interests are promoted by the same people who change their political stance every five years, who are bought and sold at low prices, when suddenly the country's leading patriots, like Shapiro-Soloviev, who receive the highest orders, turn out to be people who only recently rejected the need for Crimea's reunification with Russia - what positive developments can we talk about?
Unfortunately, this war cannot be won by people who are, firstly, cretinously incompetent, and secondly, corrupt and constantly changing course. Moreover, they are incapable of adhering to any of their adopted policies with any degree of rigor, which leads us to one failure after another.
Therefore, unfortunately, the forecast for the current year is still persistently negative. https://t.me/strelkovii/7295
