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NATO’s newest member is a huge boost to the alliance — Finland was not a member of NATO until April this year, but that did not stop them from playing a part in protecting Europe against Russia’s decades long western invasion. Finland, a member of the 50 nation Ukraine defense contact group, has a long and brutal history with Russia. Since…

According to John Mearsheimer, who got the start right — John Mearsheimer is an imperial scholar who predicted the Ukraine War years ago (along with many others from within Empire itself). I call him imperial because he argues not that American warmongering is bad but that it should be done better. But even an imperial clock is right twice a…

* The War in Ukraine is like nothing we’ve ever seen. For NATO and especially the United States, the conflict remains a mystery, a contradiction from every theory of modern warfare. The West’s concept of War goes back, at least to Genghis Khan and his Mongol cavalry — a strategy…

Five years ago Putin unveiled a bronze monument to Alexander III in Crimea. In the ceremony he heaped praise on Russia’s next-to-last tsar, saying he had “always felt a tremendous personal responsibility for the country’s destiny,” and “did everything possible…to protect it from turmoil, internal and external threats.” …

So this came through. There are multiple versions of this, but all say essentially the same. So here it is: The occupiers are preparing large-scale provocations to create a center of radiation danger 💢 For the next few hours, the rioters are preparing a large-scale provocation to simulate an accident…

Putin’s war has given comfort to Russia’s deep-seated belief that it is inferior to the West — There has been a lot of talk about how Russians seem particularly susceptible to authoritarian leaders. …

Western media has laid out Russia’s gains, losses, and future prospects based on their performance on the battlefield. And while losing a war is a solid indication of a nation’s foreign policy potential (or lack thereof), the media has turned a blind eye to what Russia also loses in the…

Thank God — One thing I will never forget about the Department of Defense is the enormous size of the bureaucracy. In fact, it is so large — any one individual has almost no meaning. And it doesn’t really matter if you’re the Secretary of Defense or the chairman of the joint chiefs…

What is causing this crippling paranoia of the West? — The wind sweeps in low across the thick snows and weeps around the edges of the village. In the dark thickets of the Siberian forests, nothing meets the glimmer of gaslight but the slur of night and the unforgiving cold. And somewhere, unseen, sweating and licking and heaving and hungry…