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Monday morning nutshots

Monday morning nutshots

Well, that escalated quickly… This weekend sure as hell didn’t start out the way most of us expected, what with a new war kicking off right quick in the Middle East. Waking up on Saturday and seeing all the rockets and shells flying was a very serious...
Operation Shock and Horror

Operation Shock and Horror

Pretty much everyone paying any attention to the news (for what that is worth, nowadays, and that is not very much), knows by now of the very serious escalation in the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict, which kicked off today. As of this moment, details are still...
Friday T&A: Stormy Petrel Edition

Friday T&A: Stormy Petrel Edition

If you are wondering about the title of today’s poast, it has to do with the announcement just yesterday by the Neo-Tsar at Valdai, that Russia has successfully tested the 9M370 Burestvenik (Бурественик – literally, “Stormy Petrel”)...
The visionary of Valdai

The visionary of Valdai

If ever you want to understand how and why the West seems to be losing on every front, all you have to do is to watch the leaders of the Western bloc’s geopolitical rivals, when they speak in public. We had one such opportunity this week, when the Neo-Tsar held...
The “5% for 50%” lie

The “5% for 50%” lie

There is a particularly idiotic ad circulating around TEH YOOTOOBZ from the Banderites – never a particularly intelligent bunch to begin with – boasting about how the FUSA is spending 5% of its total military budget on aid to Ukraine, which has resulted in...
Monday morning aerobatics

Monday morning aerobatics

It is axiomatic that weekends never, ever last long enough – as the Great Prophet Murphy might once have phrased it, “the length of the weekend is inversely proportional to the amount of rest you need to recover from the week”. Certainly that was...
Domain Query: Unleashed in the East

Domain Query: Unleashed in the East

Hail, brothers! The Domain Query series is finally back, with an all-new episode, thanks to LRFotS Randale6, who wrote in with a long two-part question. The questions relate to my recent trip to Russia, and everything that I have seen and learned before...
How to take the hobbits past Minas Morgul

How to take the hobbits past Minas Morgul

I realise I am rather stretching the LoTR metaphors to, and probably past, the breaking point, with respect to visiting Russia, but I think it is worth taking some time to sit down and write about what it now takes to visit Mordor. Things have changed dramatically in...