travel Archives - Didactic Mind https://didacticmind.com/tag/travel Strategic Defence of the Mantle of Responsibility Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:53:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 182200397 Rumours of Russia’s death are greatly exaggerated https://didacticmind.com/2026/06/rumours-of-russias-death-are-greatly-exaggerated.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/06/rumours-of-russias-death-are-greatly-exaggerated.html#comments Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:41:06 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23556 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 delivered a speech. Apparently, this year, they […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/06/rumours-of-russias-death-are-greatly-exaggerated.html/feed 1 23556 The Russians are learning to hate https://didacticmind.com/2026/05/the-russians-are-learning-to-hate.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/05/the-russians-are-learning-to-hate.html#comments Sun, 31 May 2026 13:12:22 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23495 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 Ukrainians, uncharacteristically, did not say much about the nature of the strike at […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/05/the-russians-are-learning-to-hate.html/feed 4 23495 Some light entertainment https://didacticmind.com/2026/05/some-light-entertainment.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/05/some-light-entertainment.html#respond Sun, 24 May 2026 20:21:03 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23500 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 heavy editing, and lots of interruptions, the Jewish host […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/05/some-light-entertainment.html/feed 0 23500 Operation: EAGLE CLAW II https://didacticmind.com/2026/04/operation-eagle-claw-ii.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/04/operation-eagle-claw-ii.html#respond Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:07:09 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23352 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 the, currently paused, Operation: AIPAC F***-UP. If you believe […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/04/operation-eagle-claw-ii.html/feed 0 23352 Hungary has fallen https://didacticmind.com/2026/04/hungary-has-fallen.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/04/hungary-has-fallen.html#respond Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:28:39 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23378 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, what happens in a small, landlocked, formerly Commie-bloc Central European […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/04/hungary-has-fallen.html/feed 0 23378 Happy TACO Tuesday, everyone! https://didacticmind.com/2026/04/happy-taco-tuesday-everyone.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/04/happy-taco-tuesday-everyone.html#comments Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:07:22 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23355 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 plants, bridges, and oil and gas refineries. This followed days, if not weeks, […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/04/happy-taco-tuesday-everyone.html/feed 10 23355 We are at OILCON 3 https://didacticmind.com/2026/03/we-are-at-oilcon-3.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/03/we-are-at-oilcon-3.html#comments Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:30:19 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23259 The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it. — Paul-Muad’dib Atreides, from DUNE by Frank Herbert The “Large-Scale Military Operation”, or “Special Combat Operation”, that most of us now dub Operation: AIPAC F***-UP, is now in its 29th day. Back when it all started, Angry Short Fat Trump told us that […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/03/we-are-at-oilcon-3.html/feed 2 23259 Happy Caesar salad day https://didacticmind.com/2026/03/happy-caesar-salad-day.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/03/happy-caesar-salad-day.html#comments Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:13:00 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23260 LRFotS Bardelys the Magnificent once commented, a few years ago – I think – that March is a fun month, because you get all the silly holidays packed into the space of a few days. We start with Pi Day, then the Ides of March – aka “Caesar Stabbification Day” – and then St. Patrick’s […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/03/happy-caesar-salad-day.html/feed 1 23260 How the American Empire ends https://didacticmind.com/2026/03/how-the-american-empire-ends.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/03/how-the-american-empire-ends.html#comments Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:00:00 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=22352 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 has been perhaps the most spectacular political meltdown in American history. Angry […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/03/how-the-american-empire-ends.html/feed 2 22352 The war that will break a President https://didacticmind.com/2026/03/the-war-that-will-break-a-president.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/03/the-war-that-will-break-a-president.html#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2026 23:59:32 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23229 Operation: EPIC FORK-UP is now entering, or in, its seventh day, depending on your time-zone. The war that was originally supposed to last 4 days, is now supposedly going to last up to 4 WEEKS. The same Trump Administration officials – including the President himself – who said that this would be a quick, decisive, […]

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