“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”
It is officially the first day of winter, and frankly, I’m already DONE with the season. The ONLY good thing about winter, is Christmas – and, when I lived in Australia (where, as we always say around here, EVERYTHING WANTS TO KILL YOU AND EAT YOUR EYES...
Doubtless my American friends are currently groaning their way out of the severe indigestion and food comas that inevitably follow a Thanksgiving feast. Having attended my share of such events during my time in the FUSA, I sympathise – though I never indulged to...
For those of you who have some historical awareness, you will know certain countries exist ONLY so that other, larger, more powerful countries can use them to sort out longstanding differences. Poland, for instance, is effectively a place for Russia and Germany to...
What a week, eh, lads? As usual, this is one of those where everything seems to happen all at once. World War III is well and truly underway, though it is so far a regional and localised series of conflicts in the broader context of a titanic clash between superpowers...
By some miracle, we appear to have made it to the end of another week, and the world is still more or less kind of sort of intact. Whether it stays that way, of course, is a rather different question. Yet, I think we have good reason for optimism at the moment. Hassan...
As I write this, we are seeing news streaming in about a possible major Israeli ground incursion into the Gaza Strip. This may – or may not – finally be the start of the great big ground offensive the Israelis have been threatening for two weeks now. They...
I know I have been saying this for a couple of YEARS now, but it is impossible to escape the firm conviction that we are lashed down to an out-of-control trolley headed straight into the maw of Hell itself. The world is on fire, and there appears to be little anyone...
The long fancy-pants word up in the title apparently translates into English as fear of the number 13, which is of course highly apropos, given the date. For those of you interested in the cheesy origins of this most unfortunate of days – and it IS unfortunate,...
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”)...
Once again, this instalment of everyone’s favourite series for the site is late, and once again, there has been a complete lack of new content (which shall be addressed today, by various devious ways and means). And once again, yer very ‘eavy, very...
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