Banderastan War Archives - Didactic Mind https://didacticmind.com/tag/banderastan-war Strategic Defence of the Mantle of Responsibility Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:36:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 182200397 Cheap and reliable beats expensive and elaborate every time https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/cheap-and-reliable-beats-expensive-and-elaborate-every-time.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/cheap-and-reliable-beats-expensive-and-elaborate-every-time.html#comments Sun, 09 Aug 2026 13:17:52 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23718 Back in 1951, that deceased old monster and pederast, Arthur C. Clarke, published a short story in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction called “Superiority”. You can read it for free using that link I provided. And it is well worth the time and effort, given the subject matter – though I must say, […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/cheap-and-reliable-beats-expensive-and-elaborate-every-time.html/feed 2 23718 White elephant vs carrier crusher https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/white-elephant-vs-carrier-crusher.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/white-elephant-vs-carrier-crusher.html#respond Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:48:16 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23686 The following is adapted from a poast on my Telegram channel, in which I analysed a recent article looking at the particular choices facing the Russian Navy. The article made the argument for mothballing Russia’s sole remaining Kirov-class nuclear-powered cruiser, and investing the funds in modernising its sole aircraft carrier. There was recently a rather […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/08/white-elephant-vs-carrier-crusher.html/feed 0 23686 Dispatches from Mordor: A game of drones https://didacticmind.com/2026/07/dispatches-from-mordor-a-game-of-drones.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/07/dispatches-from-mordor-a-game-of-drones.html#respond Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:04:26 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23665 The picture that you see up top, is one that I took myself, while walking along the beachfront area of Sochi, not far away from the city centre and the marina building. You are looking at a radar station mounted above the heads of the beachgoers, on the hillside overlooking the beach itself. This is […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/07/dispatches-from-mordor-a-game-of-drones.html/feed 0 23665 Dispatches from Mordor: My kingdom for a fill-up! https://didacticmind.com/2026/07/dispatches-from-mordor-my-kingdom-for-a-fill-up.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/07/dispatches-from-mordor-my-kingdom-for-a-fill-up.html#comments Sat, 18 Jul 2026 22:44:30 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23633 Longtime Readers will recall that I went on vacation back in mid-June for a couple of weeks, and I travelled specifically to Mordor, aka Russia, for that purpose. While I was there, I had the chance to observe Russia’s society, culture, and economy, in some detail, across both the capital region of Moscow, and the […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/07/dispatches-from-mordor-my-kingdom-for-a-fill-up.html/feed 3 23633 Rumours of Russia’s death are greatly exaggerated https://didacticmind.com/2026/06/rumours-of-russias-death-are-greatly-exaggerated.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/06/rumours-of-russias-death-are-greatly-exaggerated.html#comments Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:41:06 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23556 The St. Petersburg Economic Forum, or SPIEF, as it is known in the West, closed out a couple of days ago, and it proved yet again to be a very interesting insight into modern Russia. As always, President Putin got up on-stage at the closing Q&A session and delivered a speech. Apparently, this year, they […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/06/rumours-of-russias-death-are-greatly-exaggerated.html/feed 1 23556 The Russians are learning to hate https://didacticmind.com/2026/05/the-russians-are-learning-to-hate.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/05/the-russians-are-learning-to-hate.html#comments Sun, 31 May 2026 13:12:22 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23495 Last week, Ukraine attacked the dormitory of a pedagogical college in a place called Starobelsk, in the formerly Ukrainian and now Russian territory of the Lugansk People’s Republic. The Russians immediately called the strike what it was – a terrorist attack. The Ukrainians, uncharacteristically, did not say much about the nature of the strike at […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/05/the-russians-are-learning-to-hate.html/feed 4 23495 The Doom of Banderastan https://didacticmind.com/2026/02/the-doom-of-banderastan.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/02/the-doom-of-banderastan.html#comments Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:04:16 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23196 The picture you see at the top there is of a headline that appears in the Russian version of what appears to be a Ukrainian-language media site. It says, “In Kharkov they expand the Alley of Glory on the graveyard – there is not enough space for burial”. That is a literal translation, but you […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/02/the-doom-of-banderastan.html/feed 1 23196 There will be no “pissdill” https://didacticmind.com/2026/02/there-will-be-no-pissdill.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/02/there-will-be-no-pissdill.html#respond Sun, 22 Feb 2026 21:19:33 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23151 There has been much commentary across the Western world on the latest rounds of negotiations happening between the Russians, the Ukrainians, and the Americans over the past month or so. The first set of talks took place in Abu Dhabi, between high-ranking representatives of the security apparatuses of Russia and Ukraine. The latest set of […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/02/there-will-be-no-pissdill.html/feed 0 23151 The world according to the Dread Pirate Donald https://didacticmind.com/2026/01/the-world-according-to-the-dread-pirate-donald.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/01/the-world-according-to-the-dread-pirate-donald.html#respond Sun, 25 Jan 2026 13:44:55 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23019 Now that things have settled down somewhat after Drumpf took a page out of the Sicilian Mafia’s playbook and made Nicolas Maduro a deal he couldn’t refuse, the general thrust of American foreign policy under God-Emperor 2.0 is becoming relatively clear, at least in outline form. Basically, the FUSA has dropped any and all pretence […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/01/the-world-according-to-the-dread-pirate-donald.html/feed 0 23019 How the Felon stole the show from the Turducken https://didacticmind.com/2026/01/how-the-felon-stole-the-show-from-the-turducken.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/01/how-the-felon-stole-the-show-from-the-turducken.html#comments Sun, 11 Jan 2026 16:17:33 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23018 The other day I was perusing through some random links on my site, and I came across a poast that I wrote nearly 7 (!!!) years ago, on the subject of the legendary “Fighter Mafia”. These were the men who waged a covert bureaucratic war – and that is what it was – within the […]

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