America’s ‘force posture adjustment’ in Europe, and how Russia lost Nyash-Myash It’s October 29, 2025. Here are two stories worth your attention.
The U.S. military to Europe: Don’t call it a withdrawal!
The thousand-odd U.S. soldiers who rotated out of Romania last month won’t be replaced, Bucharest revealed on Wednesday. The withdrawal follows months of signals from the Trump administration that America’s military presence on NATO’s eastern flank could be sustained at lower levels. In its own statement, the U.S. Army command in Europe said its “force posture adjustment” is not a withdrawal from Europe or a demotion of Washington’s NATO commitments.
Yeah, but “the decision has sparked rare criticism from congressional allies of Donald Trump, who attacked the Pentagon for announcing the policy without consulting with military commanders or lawmakers,” reported The Guardian. In July 2025, journalist Joshua Yaffa joined The Naked Pravda to discuss European fears of U.S. abandonment during Donald Trump’s second term, amid growing concern over Russian aggression.
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She was once the poster child of Russia’s Crimea annexation
When Russia seized Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula in 2014, the Kremlin appointed a local prosecutor to serve as the chief prosecutor of the new “republic.” Photogenic and soft-spoken, Natalia Poklonskaya soon became a popular symbol of Russia’s audacious land grab. Nicknamed “Nyash-Myash” by fans — a playful Internet moniker — she starred in viral videos and regularly graced Russia’s airwaves. Poklonskaya went on to serve in the State Duma for five years, earning a reputation as a conservative crusader.
Yeah, but Poklonskaya’s celebrity has faded since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In the weeks after February 2022, she made mildly critical remarks about the war, then suddenly accepted a new role as an adviser to Russia’s prosecutor general and mostly disappeared. In 2024, she fully embraced neopaganism, provoking strong backlash from Russia’s Orthodox Church. Now she’s facing new heat from Vladimir Solovyov’s propaganda empire, where a blogger has exposed her latest unconventional personal journey: Natalia is no longer Natalia; she’s changed her legal name to Radved Poklonskaya.