Ukraine

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): ❖ Moon of Alabama has an article out on how an uncomfortable number of relatively restraint-oriented foreign policy officials have been exiting the Biden administration, while a China hawk has just been appointed the next chairman of the…

Russian Navy attacked again by a country with no Navy — Sometimes in war, and this war more than most, you have the WTF moments. We have a Ukrainian version and a Russian version of what transpired, as well as plenty of speculation. The Ivan hearse, I mean Khurs, is an intelligence ship that decided it was best served in the…

I am very reluctant to put out a story based on only one source, but I have followed this news source, Ukrinform, for some time, and appreciate their information. Ukrinform (https://www.ukrinform.net/block-lastnews) says Russia is preparing a large-scale provocation by simulating an accident at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3714742-russians-preparing-largescale-provocation-at-znpp-in-coming-hours-ukrainian-intel.html

A decisive battle for resources has begun — In 1954, the Viet Minh, led by Ho Chi Minh, surrounded the French garrison at Dien Bien Phu. The Viets blocked all the supply routes. The French did not give in immediately. They fought and fought and fought. But in the end, they surrendered because there wasn’t enough ammunition and…

Launches a scathing attack on Kremlin — I never understood why dictators confuse greed and fear with devotion and unconditional loyalty. That assumption always lies at the root of their downfall. No one is ever loyal to the dictator. As soon as the fear is gone, the followers of a dictator immediately turn loyal to themselves. Even…

News of pro-Ukrainian Russians fighting the Russia army near Belgorod have spurred on ideas that Moscow and its allies could be facing bigger, regime-threatening uprisings. On May 25, 2023, media outlets and conflict observers across social media began reporting that a group of pro-Ukraine Russians had taken up arms against…

“Therefore learn how to see and not to gape. To act instead of talking all day long. The world was almost won by such an ape! The nations put him where his kind belong. But don’t rejoice too soon at your escape - The womb he crawled from is still going strong.” ― Bertolt Brecht, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui At one time it was axiomatic in the West that post-World War II the Nazi swastika would forever remain a symbol of pristine barbarism and evil, and that wherever and whenever it appeared it would become the solemn duty of all…

This is how Ukraine wants to break through the Russian front It has been five days since the eight-month battle for the city of Bachmut ended in victory for Russia. Three days since pro-Ukrainian Russian formations entered the western Russian region of Belgorod and gave Putin’s army a 30-hour demonstration. ► Since then, relative calm has prevailed along the roughly 800-kilometer-long…

Here are the key facts of this story, as agreed upon by ¹BBC News, ²Newsweek, ³Ukrainska Pravda and ⁴Kyivpost. Ukraine is ready to launch its much-anticipated counteroffensive against Russian forces, a senior Ukrainian official has said in an interview with the BBC. ¹ Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of the National Security…