Tag: USMC
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Salammbô
in Gustave Flaubert’s novel, the mercenaries wanted money, Yevgeny Prigozhin is seeking power Yevgeny Prigozhin has freaked out. In his personal feud against the Russian defense minister, Sergey Shoigu, the head of Wagner private military company (PMC) has claimed that the Russian forces were retreating, which is an obvious lie and Ukrainian propaganda, while they…
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[Sharing] Ukrainian Counteroffensive’s Second Week Ends in Failure – Scott Ritter
Operation enters the second week of Ukraine’s long-awaited and highly touted counteroffensive, some basic conclusions can be drawn even though the fighting continues, and will continue to rage, for some time to come. First and foremost, the counteroffensive gambit has failed. While there is still considerable combat strength left in the Ukrainian military, including more…
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Pauvre Sacré Charlemagne
album de famille Le fils de Pépin le Bref s’est retourné deux fois dans sa tombe. Tout d’abord en septembre 1944, lorsqu’une unité de SS français fut nommée Waffen-Grenadier-Brigade der SS Charlemagne [en Français dans le texte]. Ce fut par un décret paru au Journal officiel du 22 juillet 1943 que l’État français permit les…
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[Sharing] Never Forget the Soviet Heroes Who Liberated Auschwitz – Scott Ritter
The SS guards abandoned the guard posts surrounding Auschwitz during the night of 20-21 January 1945. At its height, in the summer of 1944, the Auschwitz complex, which comprised three basic camps — the main camp, Birkenau and Monowitz — and another 40 sub-camps, housed over 105,000 registered prisoners, mostly Jews, and around 30,000 unregistered…
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No Panzer counteroffensive is scheduled in Ukraine
a few British Challengers are not enough Faced with a new Western proxy war, Russia is enforcing an attrition strategy in Donbass and Ukraine. The operations are a carnage for the Ukrainian forces. While the Ukrainian artillery is firing around 6,000 shells a day all over the front line, the Russian consumption may raise to…
