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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...
Domain Query: Ask Didact Anything Day #2

Domain Query: Ask Didact Anything Day #2

Gentlemen! We just concluded another round of Ask Didact Anything Day on my Telegram channel, which is your chance as a member of the community (such as it is) to ask questions to yer very ‘eavy, very ‘umble Warrior-Servant. We got a really good battery of...
Don’t leak on my leg and tell me it’s raining

Don’t leak on my leg and tell me it’s raining

The picture above is from the infamous Pentagon “leaks”, which hit teh innarwebz a couple of months ago, but have only really caused serious havoc in the past two weeks. The leaks seem to come from military sources, and provide substantial details into the...
The future in one picture

The future in one picture

That graph you see above shows the share of the two most powerful economic cooperation blocs on Earth. The G7 consists of the US, UK, Japan, Canada, France, Germany, and Italy. Back when it was the G8, it included Russia, but then, after Russia annexed Crimea and...
Basting the Turducken

Basting the Turducken

It has been, again, about 10 minutes since we last mocked the greatest boondoggle and waste of time and money in military history – the F-35 Joint Strike Flying Piano – so let us redress that egregious oversight right now. It turns out that, despite having...
Fantasy warball

Fantasy warball

There are a few basic facts about neoclowns which we all need to understand and appreciate. First, they are essentially unreconstructed Trotskyites of (((a certain ethnicity))). Second. in terms of educational background, they tend to flock toward fluffy, soft, and...
All we are saying is, give war a chance

All we are saying is, give war a chance

On February 24th, 2022, at 6am Moscow time, a drawn and haggard-looking President of the Russian Federation gave a televised address to his people for over 40 minutes. In that address, he laid out the terrible reality that had dawned upon his country – that he...
The West’s belated rediscovery of manoeuvre warfare

The West’s belated rediscovery of manoeuvre warfare

For Western military leaders and politicians, the news coming out of the slaughter-pits of Banderastan is going from bad to worse in a very big hurry. Ukrainian casualties are soaring as the Banderites try, with increasing desperation, to defend Artyomovsk (Bakhmut)...