Tag: attrition

• [Sharing] The Syria Tragedy and the New Omni-War – Pepe Escobar, Sputnik

  Until recently, a serious geopolitical working hypothesis was that West Asia and Ukraine were two vectors of the standard Hegemon modus operandi, which is to incite and unleash Forever Wars. Now both wars are united in an Omni-War A coalition of Straussian neo-cons in the US, hardcore revisionist Zionists in Tel Aviv and Ukrainian neo-nazi…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  6 December 2024

  BRICS, fascism, history, israel, jihad, syria, ukraine

  13novembre, afghanistan, africa, aleppo, alnusra, alqaeda, antiwar.com, armenia, astanaprocess, attrition, axisofresistance, azerbaijan, bandungconference, basharassad, beltandroadinitiative, benjaminnetanyahu, BRICS, caesaract, china, CIA, CSTO, davidstockman, democracy, donaldtrump, drones, europe, fascism, france, genocide, hama, hegemony, hezbollah, hillaryclinton, history, hormuz, HTS, idlib, india, INSTC, intelligence, iran, israel, jakesullivan, jamesjeffrey, jihad, justice, lebanon, lebensraum, mercenarism, MI6, middleeast, muslimbrotherhood, NAM, NATO, neocons, nikolpashinyan, pakistan, palestine, paris, pepeescobar, plutocracy, proxywar, qatar, receperdogan, revisionism, russia, russiatoday, sputnik, strategicculturefoundation, strategy, syria, terrorism, thegulf, tonycox, turkey, UK, ukraine, US, westasia, xenophon, zionism

• [Sharing] How the Strategy of Fighting to the Last Ukrainian Was Sold to the Public as Morally Righteous – Glenn Diesen

  For almost three years, NATO countries have boycotted diplomatic contacts with Russia, even as hundreds of thousands of men have died on the battlefield. The decision by diplomats to reject diplomacy is morally repugnant as diplomacy could have reduced the excess of violence, prevented escalation, and even resulted in a path to peace. However, the…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  27 November 2024

  ukraine

  aaronmate, adolfhitler, angelamerkel, antiwar.com, antonyblinken, atlanticism, attrition, balticstates, bundeswehr, cannonfodder, censorship, chasfreeman, china, dancrenshaw, davidstockman, diplomacy, disinformation, dmitrokuleba, donaldtrump, donbass, estonia, europe, europeanunion, extremecentre, fakenews, fascism, france, francoishollande, georgeorwell, germany, glenndiesen, GOP, haraldkujat, hungary, israel, istanbul, jensstoltenberg, josepborrell, journalism, kajakallas, keithkellogg, kharkov, kherson, leefang, lindseygraham, lloydaustin, markmilley, middleeast, minsk, mitchmcconnell, mittromney, mobilization, naftalibennett, NATO, neocons, noflyzone, oleksiiarestovych, propaganda, proxywar, realclearinvestigations, russia, sanctions, statedept, strategy, thegrayzone, thegulf, turkey, UK, ukraine, US, values, viktororban, vladimirputin, volodymyrzelenskyy, warcrime, whitewashing

• [Sharing] North Korean soldiers at war against Ukraine – only in the imagination of Zelensky and his Western supporters! – Felix Abt, Eastern Angle

  There is a buzz in the press: North Korea is escalating the conflict and its soldiers are supposed to bail out the Russians so that they don’t lose the war in Ukraine The corresponding claims by Kiev, Washington and Seoul are being spread by the media without verification. Russia and North Korea have categorically rejected…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  31 October 2024

  history, ukraine

  ABB, aeroflot, airdefense, alastaircrooke, APC, atlanticism, atomic, attrition, barbaraunterbeck, blaineharden, BRICS, censorship, china, DHL, disinformation, dmitrymedvedev, donbass, easternangle, EBA, fakenews, fascism, felixabt, france, germany, history, ideology, india, intelligence, ISW, japan, JDD, josephstalin, journalism, kazakhstan, kazan, khabarovsk, korea, kursk, lloydaustin, mercenarism, NATO, nuclear, olegkim, pentagon, propaganda, proxywar, pyongyang, russia, sandvik, southkorea, sovietunion, strategicculturefoundation, tanks, ukraine, unitednations, US, uzbekistan, vladimirputin, volodymyrzelenskyy, warcrime, whitewashing

• [Sharing] The insanity of repetition: Israel’s return to the Lebanese quagmire – Anis Raiss, The Cradle

  Israel’s latest incursion into south Lebanon repeats the same tactical missteps of the past, plunging the occupation army into a familiar quagmire and raising the urgent question: How long can the cycle of failure continue before lessons are finally learned? Once again, history reverberates through the mountains and valleys of south Lebanon. On 2 October,…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  16 October 2024

  israel, science

  alberteinstein, anisraiss, annabotting, APS, arkadyshipunov, asymmetric, ATGM, attrition, badrunit, censorship, dehlavieh, disinformation, ERA, gagorder, gaza, georgegalloway, haifa, hamas, hassannasrallah, hezbollah, husseinalkhalil, iran, israel, jericho, kornet, lebanon, litani, merkava, palestine, propaganda, radwanspecialforces, rafael, russia, science, skynews, tactics, tanks, tharallah, thecradle, trophy, tsahal, US

• [Sharing] Ultra-nationalist linked to Maidan false flag assassinated – The Grayzone, Kit Klarenberg

  The killing of ultra-nationalist Ukrainian politician Iryna Farion at the hands of a Neo-Nazi is filled with irony. Linked to the Maidan false flag massacre, Farion was instrumental in bringing fascist forces into the mainstream On July 19, prominent Ukrainian Neo-Nazi Iryna Farion, a former lawmaker with the fascist Svoboda party, was shot dead in…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  28 July 2024

  assassination, fascism, secret operations, ukraine

  assassination, atlanticism, attrition, azov, belgorod, CIA, coup, DNR, donbass, donetsk, europe, falseflag, fascism, genocide, HIMARS, history, ihoryankiv, intelligence, investigation, irynafarion, ivankatchanovski, justice, kiev, kitklarenberg, law, LPR, lugansk, lviv, maidan, manifesto, nationalism, NATO, odessa, olehpankevich, oleksandrsych, petroporoshenko, police, proxywar, racism, riot, russia, russophobia, SBU, secretoperations, sichbattalion, svoboda, terrorism, thegrayzone, ukraine, US, viktoryanukovych, volodymyrzelenskyy, yelenovka

• [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…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  11 March 2024

  ukraine

  adolfhitler, airdefense, artemovsk, atlanticism, attrition, avdeevka, azov, bakhmut, ballisticmissiles, balticstates, belgium, bigserge, borisjohnson, busification, cannonfodder, chasovyar, congress, cruisemissiles, DNR, donbass, donets, donetsk, drones, ernstjuenger, estonia, europeanunion, fascism, geran, germany, glidebombs, GOP, history, iskander, ISR, izyum, kalibr, kharkov, konstantinovka, korea, kramatorsk, krasnyliman, kupyansk, kurakhovo, kursk, lancet, lisichansk, LNR, lugansk, marinka, mediazona, mobilization, NATO, oleksandrsyrskyi, oleksiireznikov, orekhov, oskol, oswaldspengler, pokrovsk, propaganda, proxywar, rabotino, RUSI, russia, sergeyshoigu, severodonetsk, slavyansk, southkorea, sovietunion, strategy, tactics, tanks, tokmak, toretsk, ugledar, UK, ukraine, US, valeriizaluzhnyi, vladimirputin, volodymyrzelenskyy, warspotting, zaporozhye

• [Sharing] The Russian Art of War: How the West Led Ukraine to Defeat – Jacques Baud, The Postil Magazine

  We are very happy to bring you this excerpt from Colonel Jacques Baud’s latest book, The Russian Art of War: How the West Led Ukraine to Defeat (L’art de la guerre russe : Comment l’Occident conduisit l’Ukraine à l’échec). This is a detailed study of the two-year old conflict in which the West has brutally…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  5 January 2024

  history, ukraine

  africa, alexandrevautravers, asymmetric, attrition, azovsea, bakhmut, balticstates, barackobama, benwallace, borisjohnson, caliphate, censorship, christophercavoli, clausewitz, coldwar, correlationofforces, coup, crimea, damascus, davidarakhamia, denazification, disinformation, dmytroyarosh, dnipro, DNR, doctrine, donbass, donetsk, egypt, europe, europeanunion, fakenews, fascism, ferdinandfoch, france, georgia, germany, hamas, heiditagliavini, hezbollah, history, hypersonicmissiles, intelligence, investigation, iraq, ISIS, israel, italy, jacquesbaud, jensstoltenberg, jihad, johnkerry, journalism, kharkov, kherson, kiev, law, lithuania, LNR, lugansk, maidan, mariupol, minsk, NATO, noflyzone, nordstream, odessa, oleksiiarestovych, oleksiydanilov, operativeart, palestine, pravyisektor, propaganda, proxywar, RAND, regimechange, resistance, russia, SACEUR, sanctions, sevastopol, sovietunion, spain, strategy, switzerland, syria, tactics, terrorism, thepostilmagazine, UK, ukraine, unitednations, US, valeriizaluzhnyi, vladimirputin, volodymyrzelenskyy, warcrime, whitewashing

• The Atlanticist defeat in Donbass and Ukraine

  chronicle During his annual end-of-year press conference, on December 14, 2023, Vladimir Putin states There will be peace when we achieve our goals. They don’t change. Let me remind you what we talked about – the denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine, its neutral status Historical benchmarks Around an ancient Cossack core in 1654, established after…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  16 December 2023

  africa liberation, assassination, corruption, decline, fascism, history, jihad, science, secret operations, social struggles, ukraine

  13novembre, abrams, abwehr, adammarczak, adolfhitler, aeroprakt, africa, africaliberation, AI, airdefense, akhmadkurbanov, akhmat, alaska, alexanderbortnikov, algeria, alqaeda, amaq, americafirst, AMRAAM, anchorage, andrewnapolitano, andriyyermak, angelamerkel, annalenabaerbock, antonov, artemovsk, assassination, ATACMS, atlanticism, atomic, attrition, australia, austria, autonomy, avdeevka, aviano, azov, azovsea, azovstal, bakhmut, balashikha, ballisticmissiles, balticstates, baronovsky, baryatinsky, BASF, belarus, belaya, belgium, belgorod, berdichi, berdyansk, berezina, berlin, bigserge, bild, biolabs, blacksea, bogdanovka, borisjohnson, bradley, brazil, brussels, bryansk, bundeswehr, burkinafaso, busification, caliphate, cannonfodder, catherinecolonna, censorship, charlemagne, chasovyar, chaybowes, chechnya, cheka, chernigov, chernivtsi, chernobyl, china, christianfreuding, christianlindner, christmas, CIA, cinema, CIS, clustermunitions, coalitionofthewilling, colonialism, communism, congress, corruption, corsica, cossack, coup, crimea, crocuscityhall, cruisemissiles, cuba, cyberwarfare, czechrepublic, D-20, danielridley, dday, decline, decommunization, deepstate, democracy, denazification, deniskapustin, denmark, derspiegel, DHES, dimitrov, diplomacy, disinformation, dmitrymedvedev, dmytrokanuper, DNI, dnieper, dnipro, DNR, dobropolie, donaldtrump, donbass, donetsk, DPSU, drones, dzerzhynsk, easter, egypt, elbe, emmanuelmacron, emmanueltodd, energodar, engels, estonia, etatfrancais, ethniccleansing, eurasia, eurocorps, europe, europeanlithium, europeanunion, evgenyfabrisenko, evgenypoddubny, EW, F-16, fakenews, falseflag, fascism, federalism, felixdzerzhinsky, feodosia, ficheS, firepoint, FIRMS, flamingo, foxbat, FP-5, france, francoishollande, friedrichmerz, FSB, G20, galicia, gambia, gazprom, geran, germany, glidebombs, globalhawk, gostomel, GPS, gulyaipole, gungnir, gwendaldelange, hacking, hegemony, HIMARS, hiroshima, history, humor, HUR, hypersonicmissiles, IAEA, ibrahimtraore, ICBM, IFV, ignatkuzin, igorkirillov, ihormosiychuk, Il-76, illmagore, imperialism, india, intelligence, internationallegion, investigation, iran, IRBM, ireland, irkutsk, ISIS, iskander, israel, istanbul, italy, ivanovets, ivanvoronich, jakesullivan, jdvance, jeppehansen, jihad, joebiden, johnalangavrilov, johnkerry, josefsauvigny, josemanuelbarroso, josephgoebbels, josephstalin, journalism, judgingfreedom, justice, kairostanker, kajakallas, karachev, kashtanabtg, keirstarmer, keithkellogg, kh-101, kharkov, kherson, KIA, kiev, killnet, kimjongun, kirovograd, klimovo, konstantinovka, korea, korenovo, kramatorsk, krasnoarmeysk, krasnodar, krasnogorovka, krasnogorsk, krivoyrog, kupyansk, kurakhovo, kursk, kurskvostochny, kyrylobudanov, lakeuzhin, larryjohnson, laser, law, leopard, linkedin, lisichansk, lithium, lithuania, LNR, london, lotarevka, LRU, lugansk, lutsk, LVF, lviv, lychakiv, madagascar, maidan, marcorubio, marder, mariazakharova, 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referendum, resistance, revisionism, revolution, riodejaneiro, riot, riyadh, romania, romanshukhevych, rome, ropuchaclass, rostov, rubezh, russia, russkoeporechnoye, russophobia, rybar, S-400, SAM, sanctions, saratov, sarmat, satellites, saudiarabia, SBU, SCALP, schutzmannschaft, schutzstaffel, science, scottritter, secretoperations, serbia, sergeikotov, sergeylavrov, sergeyshoigu, sevastopol, seversk, shadowfleet, shevchenko, siberia, sichbattalion, simferopol, slovakia, smolensk, socialdemocracy, socialmedia, socialstruggles, sovietunion, spacex, stalingrad, stalingradfalcons, statedept, stevewitkoff, stormshadow, stosstruppen, strategy, sturmabteilung, su-35, sudzha, sumy, sverdlikovo, svoboda, SVR, tactics, tajikistan, tanks, tatarstan, taurus, TCC, telaviv, telegram, terrorism, thebulge, thedailymail, theindependent, thenetherlands, thesimpsons, theyellowdanger, thierryburkhard, tokmak, tomahawk, tonenkoye, toretsk, torgau, tradeunion, tsarbomba, tsezarkunikov, tsunamibattalion, tuckercarlson, tulsigabbard, turkey, twitter, uchkuevka, ugledar, UK, ukraine, ukrainsk, unitednations, UPA, US, USV, uzbekistan, valeriizaluzhnyi, valerygerasimov, values, vasilymalyuk, vatican, venezuela, vergeltungswaffen, vichy, victorianuland, victory80, victorybanner, vietnam, viktoryanukovych, virattanker, vladimirlenin, vladimirputin, vogue, volkssturm, volodymyrzelenskyy, vonderleyen, voronezh-dm, vostokbrigade, wachtamrhein, waffenss, wagner, warcrime, wartears, washingtondc, wehrmacht, williamshakespeare, wunderwaffen, yalta, yaroslavmoskalik, yefremlukatsky, yelabuga, yelenovka, yevgenydolmatovsky, yevgenykhaldei, yuliasvyrydenko, yurigagarin, zaporozhye, zhytomyr, zmiev, ZNPP, zyklon

• [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…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  29 October 2023

  history, ukraine

  adolfhitler, afghanistan, airdefense, atlanticism, atomic, attrition, cannonfodder, china, colonialism, colorrevolution, coup, crimea, cuba, democraticparty, donbass, dougbandow, europe, europeanunion, GOP, hamas, hegemony, history, imperialism, iran, iraq, israel, jensstoltenberg, joebiden, josephstalin, korea, libya, madeleinealbright, maidan, MBS, mittromney, mobilization, napoleonebuonaparte, nationalism, NATO, nuclear, proxywar, regimechange, ronaldreagan, russia, saddamhussein, sanctions, saudiarabia, serbia, sovietunion, strategy, syria, theamericanconservative, ukraine, US, viktoryanukovych, vladimirputin, volodymyrzelenskyy, wunderwaffen, yemen, yugoslavia

• [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…

  Nicolas Cinquini

  31 August 2023

  history, ukraine

  abrams, airdefense, APC, artemovsk, asymmetric, ATACMS, ATGM, attrition, bakhmut, belgorod, berdyansk, bigserge, blacksea, busification, cannonfodder, challenger, clustermunitions, crimea, davidglantz, dmitrymedvedev, dnieper, donbass, donetsk, drones, EW, geran, germany, GMLRS, hannamaliar, HIMARS, history, HUR, IFV, intelligence, iran, iraq, ISR, joebiden, kakhovka, kerch, kharkov, kherson, kursk, kyrylobudanov, lancet, leopard, lugansk, M55, marder, melitopol, mines, mobilization, moscow, NATO, novayakakhovka, OPORD, OPSEC, orekhov, panzer, pentagon, peterzeihan, propaganda, proxywar, rabotino, recce, russia, shahed136, slovenia, sovietunion, starobelsk, strategy, stryker, svatovo, syria, tanks, tokmak, tula, ukraine, US, velykanovosyolka, vladimirputin, volodymyrzelenskyy, voronezh, zaporozhye