Jason Jay Smart
@jjsmart.bsky.social
Джейсон Джей Смарт, PhD. Writes at KyivPost.com. Check out the latest: YT & Substack: @jasonjaysmart.
🔥 The Kremlin succession fight is underway.
Officials are already moving assets and buying protection. When a leader slips, the inner circle follows the money, and right now it is heading into the shadows.
👉 Watch: youtu.be/rTWubDko0gc?...
Officials are already moving assets and buying protection. When a leader slips, the inner circle follows the money, and right now it is heading into the shadows.
👉 Watch: youtu.be/rTWubDko0gc?...
Putin’s War Cash Grab: $28B SEIZED Inside Russia
YouTube video by Jason Jay Smart
youtu.be
February 11, 2026 at 8:02 PM
🔥 The Kremlin succession fight is underway.
Officials are already moving assets and buying protection. When a leader slips, the inner circle follows the money, and right now it is heading into the shadows.
👉 Watch: youtu.be/rTWubDko0gc?...
Officials are already moving assets and buying protection. When a leader slips, the inner circle follows the money, and right now it is heading into the shadows.
👉 Watch: youtu.be/rTWubDko0gc?...
🔥 Russia’s GRU and the Sinaloa cartel are now sharing the same secret banks. Putin has built a "logistics of lawlessness" to move billions in the shadows.
👉 The Russian state is the world's most dangerous mafia.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9cF...
👉 The Russian state is the world's most dangerous mafia.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9cF...
Kremlin $300M Collateral Just FAILED
YouTube video by Jason Jay Smart
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February 6, 2026 at 7:12 PM
🔥 Russia’s GRU and the Sinaloa cartel are now sharing the same secret banks. Putin has built a "logistics of lawlessness" to move billions in the shadows.
👉 The Russian state is the world's most dangerous mafia.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9cF...
👉 The Russian state is the world's most dangerous mafia.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9cF...
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In today’s Vatnik Soup, made together with chef invité @martinlaineolen.bsky.social , we discuss the extensive links between pedophile sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and Russian officials and intelligence operatives, and how Western politicians reinforced these links.
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February 6, 2026 at 1:45 PM
In today’s Vatnik Soup, made together with chef invité @martinlaineolen.bsky.social , we discuss the extensive links between pedophile sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and Russian officials and intelligence operatives, and how Western politicians reinforced these links.
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Epstein Labeled ‘Wealth Manager’ for Putin in FBI Documents, Records Suggest Meetings
The files also include letters in which Epstein repeatedly discussed the possibility of meeting Putin, though it remains unclear whether a meeting ever took place.
www.kyivpost.com/post/69267
The files also include letters in which Epstein repeatedly discussed the possibility of meeting Putin, though it remains unclear whether a meeting ever took place.
www.kyivpost.com/post/69267
Epstein Labeled ‘Wealth Manager’ for Putin in FBI Documents, Records Suggest Meetings
The files also include letters in which Epstein repeatedly discussed the possibility of meeting Putin, though it remains unclear whether a meeting ever took place.
www.kyivpost.com
February 2, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Epstein Labeled ‘Wealth Manager’ for Putin in FBI Documents, Records Suggest Meetings
The files also include letters in which Epstein repeatedly discussed the possibility of meeting Putin, though it remains unclear whether a meeting ever took place.
www.kyivpost.com/post/69267
The files also include letters in which Epstein repeatedly discussed the possibility of meeting Putin, though it remains unclear whether a meeting ever took place.
www.kyivpost.com/post/69267
🔥 Russia is burning through liquid reserves to keep this war alive. Provinces freeze. Commanders get fired. The "vertical of power" is cracking.
👉 Putin can’t buy victory as he hopes for time. But now, the clock’s running out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLeE...
👉 Putin can’t buy victory as he hopes for time. But now, the clock’s running out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLeE...
Kremlin Command Nodes Go Dark
YouTube video by Jason Jay Smart
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February 1, 2026 at 7:01 PM
🔥 Russia is burning through liquid reserves to keep this war alive. Provinces freeze. Commanders get fired. The "vertical of power" is cracking.
👉 Putin can’t buy victory as he hopes for time. But now, the clock’s running out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLeE...
👉 Putin can’t buy victory as he hopes for time. But now, the clock’s running out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLeE...
🔥 The FSB's mafia is failing as the Russian shadow fleet comes under fire from Western navies. These ship seizures are triggering a new wave of "red terror" against a panicking Moscow elite. The hunt for culprits has begun.
👉The FSB "clearance" system is breaking Russia
youtu.be/xldYg9onC1U
👉The FSB "clearance" system is breaking Russia
youtu.be/xldYg9onC1U
FSB Power Surges as Russia Runs Out of Cash
YouTube video by Jason Jay Smart
youtu.be
January 30, 2026 at 7:15 PM
🔥 The FSB's mafia is failing as the Russian shadow fleet comes under fire from Western navies. These ship seizures are triggering a new wave of "red terror" against a panicking Moscow elite. The hunt for culprits has begun.
👉The FSB "clearance" system is breaking Russia
youtu.be/xldYg9onC1U
👉The FSB "clearance" system is breaking Russia
youtu.be/xldYg9onC1U
🔥 If you watch one thing today, MAKE IT THIS VIDEO, from my colleagues at Kyiv Post, on how America’s political chaos is upending Ukrainian refugees’ lives.
👉 If you’re American, call your Congressman & Senators.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEH6...
👉 If you’re American, call your Congressman & Senators.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEH6...
Between Safety and Uncertainty: Ukrainian Lives in the US
YouTube video by Kyiv Post
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January 29, 2026 at 2:59 AM
🔥 If you watch one thing today, MAKE IT THIS VIDEO, from my colleagues at Kyiv Post, on how America’s political chaos is upending Ukrainian refugees’ lives.
👉 If you’re American, call your Congressman & Senators.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEH6...
👉 If you’re American, call your Congressman & Senators.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEH6...
🔥🔥🔥 Putin’s new reservist decree calls for more “training,” on paper.
But read the fine print, this is the mechanism for covert mobilization.
👉 And it gets worse, it’s already fueling internal destabilization inside Russia.
youtu.be/n5VyMlciHfU
But read the fine print, this is the mechanism for covert mobilization.
👉 And it gets worse, it’s already fueling internal destabilization inside Russia.
youtu.be/n5VyMlciHfU
Putin Orders 20 Million Men: Russia Starts Cracking
YouTube video by Jason Jay Smart
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 7:44 PM
🔥🔥🔥 Putin’s new reservist decree calls for more “training,” on paper.
But read the fine print, this is the mechanism for covert mobilization.
👉 And it gets worse, it’s already fueling internal destabilization inside Russia.
youtu.be/n5VyMlciHfU
But read the fine print, this is the mechanism for covert mobilization.
👉 And it gets worse, it’s already fueling internal destabilization inside Russia.
youtu.be/n5VyMlciHfU
⚡️⚡️Trump’s media behavior follows a repeatable political logic, with Ukraine 🇺🇦 repeatedly used as a narrative accelerant.
There are ways to change this dynamic.
👉 Here’s how to avoid Trump’s trap.
www.kyivpost.com/opinion/68949
There are ways to change this dynamic.
👉 Here’s how to avoid Trump’s trap.
www.kyivpost.com/opinion/68949
Opinion: Ukraine Can Beat Trump’s Game – Here’s How
When Trump faces a damaging headline, he does not defend, he manufactures a louder spectacle that flips the news cycle and turns global diplomacy into an invite-only club.
www.kyivpost.com
January 28, 2026 at 3:57 PM
⚡️⚡️Trump’s media behavior follows a repeatable political logic, with Ukraine 🇺🇦 repeatedly used as a narrative accelerant.
There are ways to change this dynamic.
👉 Here’s how to avoid Trump’s trap.
www.kyivpost.com/opinion/68949
There are ways to change this dynamic.
👉 Here’s how to avoid Trump’s trap.
www.kyivpost.com/opinion/68949
🔥 Why does Russia keep citing these non-existent “Alaska agreements”?
Is the Kremlin delusional?
👉 Or is Moscow signaling that Trump, in Alaska, agreed to divide Ukraine 🇺🇦, and now is reminding Washington to force territorial concessions?
edition.cnn.com/2026/01/27/w...
Is the Kremlin delusional?
👉 Or is Moscow signaling that Trump, in Alaska, agreed to divide Ukraine 🇺🇦, and now is reminding Washington to force territorial concessions?
edition.cnn.com/2026/01/27/w...
Beware the ‘Anchorage Formula’: Why Russia has invented an agreement with the US to mask its disdain for peace talks | CNN
In Russian statements surrounding the latest round of peace talks in Abu Dhabi, a new catchphrase is emerging: “the Anchorage Formula.”
edition.cnn.com
January 27, 2026 at 9:29 PM
🔥 Why does Russia keep citing these non-existent “Alaska agreements”?
Is the Kremlin delusional?
👉 Or is Moscow signaling that Trump, in Alaska, agreed to divide Ukraine 🇺🇦, and now is reminding Washington to force territorial concessions?
edition.cnn.com/2026/01/27/w...
Is the Kremlin delusional?
👉 Or is Moscow signaling that Trump, in Alaska, agreed to divide Ukraine 🇺🇦, and now is reminding Washington to force territorial concessions?
edition.cnn.com/2026/01/27/w...
🔥 The Kremlin is driving Russia into the abyss. They have the "second strongest army," on paper, but Ukraine is winning the war of innovation in real time.
👉 This locks Russia into a losing trajectory it cannot reverse.
youtu.be/NWxLEzr59lE
👉 This locks Russia into a losing trajectory it cannot reverse.
youtu.be/NWxLEzr59lE
There’s No Way for Russia to Beat This
YouTube video by Jason Jay Smart
youtu.be
January 27, 2026 at 6:53 PM
🔥 The Kremlin is driving Russia into the abyss. They have the "second strongest army," on paper, but Ukraine is winning the war of innovation in real time.
👉 This locks Russia into a losing trajectory it cannot reverse.
youtu.be/NWxLEzr59lE
👉 This locks Russia into a losing trajectory it cannot reverse.
youtu.be/NWxLEzr59lE
🔥Putin traded Russia’s future for a forever war that has no exit. Now the Kremlin is cannibalizing its own banking system to sustain a failing front, leaving the economy hollow.
👉The trap has slammed shut, and the bill for Putin's hubris is finally due youtu.be/FFORJT5x0Nk
👉The trap has slammed shut, and the bill for Putin's hubris is finally due youtu.be/FFORJT5x0Nk
Russia Isn't Collapsing. It's Worse.
YouTube video by Jason Jay Smart
youtu.be
January 26, 2026 at 6:47 PM
🔥Putin traded Russia’s future for a forever war that has no exit. Now the Kremlin is cannibalizing its own banking system to sustain a failing front, leaving the economy hollow.
👉The trap has slammed shut, and the bill for Putin's hubris is finally due youtu.be/FFORJT5x0Nk
👉The trap has slammed shut, and the bill for Putin's hubris is finally due youtu.be/FFORJT5x0Nk
🔥 Leaked letters from Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) reveal a marketplace, not a superpower. Spies backstab for $50 bribes while their own headquarters rot.
👉 Putin’s "untouchables" have traded national security for petty career survival.
youtu.be/bueBLdwrU-M
👉 Putin’s "untouchables" have traded national security for petty career survival.
youtu.be/bueBLdwrU-M
Russia’s Internal Front Just Opened
YouTube video by Jason Jay Smart
youtu.be
January 23, 2026 at 7:03 PM
🔥 Leaked letters from Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) reveal a marketplace, not a superpower. Spies backstab for $50 bribes while their own headquarters rot.
👉 Putin’s "untouchables" have traded national security for petty career survival.
youtu.be/bueBLdwrU-M
👉 Putin’s "untouchables" have traded national security for petty career survival.
youtu.be/bueBLdwrU-M
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Since it cannot win on the battlefield, Russia has relentlessly bombed Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, weaponising hunger and basic human needs. Forcing Ukraine into surrender through civilian suffering appears to have become Russia’s central strategy in the war.
euvsdisinfo.eu/weaponising-...
euvsdisinfo.eu/weaponising-...
January 23, 2026 at 8:52 AM
Since it cannot win on the battlefield, Russia has relentlessly bombed Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, weaponising hunger and basic human needs. Forcing Ukraine into surrender through civilian suffering appears to have become Russia’s central strategy in the war.
euvsdisinfo.eu/weaponising-...
euvsdisinfo.eu/weaponising-...
🔥 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 🇺🇦.
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...
The Next War Is Our Fault
"Davos can name the rupture, but only consequences can stop it."
substack.com
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.
www.kyivpost.com
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?