Tag: airdefense
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[Sharing] Collapsing Empire: China and Russia Checkmate US Military – Kit Klarenberg
On July 29th, Pentagon-funded “think tank” RAND Corporation published a landmark appraisal of the state of the Pentagon’s 2022 National Defense Strategy (NDS), and current US military readiness, produced by a Congress-created Commission of “non-governmental experts in national security.” Its findings are stark, an unrelentingly bleak analysis of every aspect of the Empire’s bloated, decaying global war machine. In…
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[Sharing] The Cost of Kursk – Ted Snider, The Libertarian Institute
The bold and surprising incursion across the border into the Kursk region of Russia has won Ukraine the temporary possession of several Russian villages and a few hundred square miles of Russian territory. But the strategically cheap Russian land may have been bought at a very costly price. The Ukrainian armed forces managed a lightning…
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[Sharing] Russo-Ukrainian war: The Deluge – Big Serge
Z World Turns Two As the calendar barrels into another year and we tick away the days of February, notable anniversaries are marked off in sequence. It is now 2/22/2022 +2: two years since Putin’s address on the historic status of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, followed on 2/24/2022 by the commencement of the Special…
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[Sharing] Russian Missile Strike on French Contractor Base in Ukraine Highlights Heated Franco-Russian Cold War – Military Watch Magazine
The Russian Armed Forces on the evening of January 16 were reported to have launched a missile strike targeting the headquarters of predominantly French European foreign fighters in Ukraine. Russian sources subsequently reported that the personnel targeted were military contractors, and that the strike caused at least 80 casualties 60 or more of which were…
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[Sharing] Biden Fails to Explain Why U.S. Should Fight Proxy War Against Russia – Doug Bandow, The American Conservative
A deal needs to be made. It won’t be a good one, but the longer Ukraine waits, the worse the deal is likely to become President Biden can’t stop talking about Ukraine. Three weeks ago, in the aftermath of Congress’ failure to include Ukraine money in the stopgap budget bill, he declared, “I want to…
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[Sharing] Escaping Attrition: Ukraine Rolls the Dice – Big Serge
The Zaporizhia Summer Blockbuster It has been a while since I published anything long-form commenting on the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War, and I confess that writing this article gave me a modicum of trouble. Ukraine’s much anticipated grand summer counteroffensive has now been underway for about eighty days with little to show for it. The summer…
