“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.”
Back in 1951, that deceased old monster and pederast, Arthur C. Clarke, published a short story in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction called “Superiority”. You can read it for free using that link I provided. And it is well worth the time and effort, given...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Times are dark, and they appear to get darker with every passing moment. But, even in these difficult moments, we can all enjoy the spectacle of Zioclowns trying to justify themselves, and being taken apart on live television: It really says a lot that, even with...
That picture you see above is from a landing strip not far from Isfahan, in west-central Iran. Supposedly, that is the result of an all-out attempt to rescue the Weapons Systems Officer of an F-15E Strike Eagle that the Iranians shot down over their airspace during...
Last Sunday, Hungarians went to the polls in record numbers, and delivered a crushing victory for the leader of the new opposition party, Tisza, led by Peter Magyar. And it IS a blowout – Magyar has a supermajority in the Hungarian parliament now. Now, normally,...
The news broke very late last night (my time, and Iranian time, though it was probably at around 7pm EST) that Angry Short Fat Trump had, at almost the very last minute, called off the so-called “civilisation-ending” strikes against Iran’s infrastructure, power...
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