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White elephant vs carrier crusher

White elephant vs carrier crusher

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...
Dispatches from Mordor: A game of drones

Dispatches from Mordor: A game of drones

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...
Dispatches from Mordor: My kingdom for a fill-up!

Dispatches from Mordor: My kingdom for a fill-up!

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,...
Rumours of Russia’s death are greatly exaggerated

Rumours of Russia’s death are greatly exaggerated

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...
The Russians are learning to hate

The Russians are learning to hate

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...
How the American Empire ends

How the American Empire ends

We are now closing out the second full week of Operation: AIPAC FURY, in which the Epstein Coalition decided to attack Iran without any kind of justification, rationale, clearly defined set of objectives, or, hell, anything even REMOTELY resembling a plan. The result...
The Doom of Banderastan

The Doom of Banderastan

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...
There will be no “pissdill”

There will be no “pissdill”

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...
The world according to the Dread Pirate Donald

The world according to the Dread Pirate Donald

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...