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The dominant news story today is the mutiny – or rebellion, or coup, depending on whom you listen to – of the Wagner private military company (PMC) in Russia. The crisis unfolded rapidly since yesterday, at close to midnight GMT, when the titular head of...
As y’all know quite well by now, there is a rather serious – I would say, panicked – discussion among the NATO types about giving F-16 Vipers to Banderastan, to replenish their almost completely destroyed air farce force. I have pointed out already...
The long-awaited Ukrainian (counter)offensive has finally begun. Indeed, as of this writing, it has been underway for a bit over a week. Last Sunday, the hohols rolled out troops and vehicles in substantial force, and began what they insist on calling “probing...
Everyone has no doubt heard by now about the destruction of the Novaya Kakhovka hydroelectric dam, or Kakhovskaya Hydroelectric Power Plant (KHPP). The result was pretty much what you might expect – a big-ass wall of water rushing downstream and flooding towns...
The whole “Pajeet” meme is a hilariously offensive term used to refer to Indians (or, more generally, people of Indian origin), originally coined as a specific racial insult that has since expanded somewhat in meaning. These days, tech types use it to...
Two former American SPECWARCOM types, who are now in 404 – Country Not Found, training up the khokhol military, wrote an extensive piece in War on the Rocks about the complications associated with training and readiness of the entire Ukrainian Army. It is very...
Over six (!!!!!!!) years ago, I wrote a quasi-humourous post about how SkyNet wants to kill us all, on the basis of what happened when you tried to process images of various kinds through what were, back then, quite nascent AI/ML algorithms. The results were…...
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...
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...
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...
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