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Operation: MEATGRINDER

Operation: MEATGRINDER

Now that things have settled down in and around Artyomovsk, it is worth taking a step back and looking at the numbers involved in the Bakhmut meatgrinder. I am not exaggerating when I say that the Russians quite literally called it “Operation: MEATGRINDER”...
Monday morning coal rolling

Monday morning coal rolling

Oy. Mondays. They are way too damn frequent, they arrive way too damn fast after the weekend, they last way too damn long, and they are way too damn noxious. Going through a Monday, especially after a very nice and restful weekend with beautiful weather, is like being...
Cauldron boil and cauldron bubble

Cauldron boil and cauldron bubble

Gentlemen, Bakhmut has fallen. As of yesterday, it is now Artyomovsk again. We now have official confirmation of this, straight from the horse’s mouth – so to speak. Sometime around 8pm local time yesterday, Evgeniy Prigozhin, the titular head of the...
Friday T&A: Polonium Edition

Friday T&A: Polonium Edition

The weekend is finally upon us, and much-needed it is, too. This week has been a busy one, at every level. Trying to keep up with events is approaching a futile exercise, almost, because things change so fast every day, particularly with respect to the Banderastan...
Become glorious Russian hacker!!!

Become glorious Russian hacker!!!

Many people in the West – a surprising number, given it has been more than 30 years since the Cold War ended – still believe Russians to be a dour, gruff, humourless bunch. Of course, anyone who spends more than 5 minutes around real Russians will tell you...
Gone full potato pancake

Gone full potato pancake

The term, “blin”, in Russian, means “pancake”. It is also synonymous with a mild Russian swear word that, more or less, translates as “dammit”, or “crap”. (As opposed to говно or черт, which translate much more closely...
Monday morning manny mauling

Monday morning manny mauling

Ah, Monday. Our old enemy. We meet again. And, if you’re anything like me, you tend to start your Mondays having to deal with the Dreaded Spawn of Billzebub – POWERPOINT. I swear, if I could pay someone a commission to just automate all of my...
Scratch-a-Nazi

Scratch-a-Nazi

It has been about a week since Gonzalo Lira, once known on TEH YOOTOOBZ as “Coach Red Pill”, for his involvement with the Manosphere movement, was arrested again by the Ukrainian SBU. Since then, to the best of my knowledge, we have heard very little of...