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The SANKSHUNS are highly effective

The SANKSHUNS are highly effective

I have been trying to tell just about anyone with sense enough to listen, since pretty much the middle of April, that the SANKSHUNS against those damned ROOOOOOOOSKEEES!!!, are actually useless at best and extremely counterproductive at worst. In reality, the Western...
A bridge WAY too far

A bridge WAY too far

The picture you see above was taken early yesterday by Russians on the eastern bank of the Kerch Strait, a narrow (but still significant) body of water that separates the Crimean Peninsula from the Russian mainland. It shows the results of an attempt by the Ukrainian...
Didactic Mind, Ep 104: World War Now

Didactic Mind, Ep 104: World War Now

The main Didactic Mind podcast is finally back with a new episode. In this one, I argue that we are already in a World War – whether you call it World War III or IV at this point, I don’t know or care, but the fact is that we ARE dealing with a global war...
The speech that shook the world

The speech that shook the world

On September 30th, 2022, the Neo-Tsar signed treaties with the formerly Ukrainian regions of Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaporozh’ye, and Kherson, and he gave a speech in the St. George Hall (technically the Hall of the Order of St. George) within the Grand Kremlin...
No more Mr. Nice Bear

No more Mr. Nice Bear

The Neo-Tsar has evidently had quite enough of dicking around in Banderastan. As I mentioned in my previous post on the subject, the referendums organised in the liberated territories of 404 are a specific, long-planned trigger for much harsher Russian actions that go...
The Motherland calls her children home

The Motherland calls her children home

Russian Telegram channels today absolutely blew up with the news that the liberated territories of the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics, plus whatever has been freed in Kherson and Zaporozh’ye regions, will almost immediately start to hold...
Economic force multipliers

Economic force multipliers

Note: the following post is an expansion of a series of lengthy comments that I made on my Telegram channel earlier today. The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) conference wrapped up in Samarkand, Uzbekistan (not Astana, Kazakhstan, which is what I mistakenly...
Send them all home

Send them all home

Chaps, do you remember that whole weird series of episodes of what we might call a White Trash Soap Opera, suitably titled Yorkshire Dales or some such, involving a father-of-two who took in a Ukrainian refugee and then ended up dumping his not-wife’s ass in...
Losing battles to win wars

Losing battles to win wars

The past five days or so have been rather bewildering ones for those of us following developments in the 404 War. Starting on September 9th, basically, the Ukrainians launched a major counteroffensive designed to take back territory in the Kharkov region in the...
Manoeuvre war and 404

Manoeuvre war and 404

When it comes to the 404 War, if you only listen to the American side through the mouthpieces of the Pentaloons and the State Department, you will come away with the distinct impression that the US military does not take the Russian military at all seriously. The...