The likelihood that it secretly installed sensors in Ukraine to monitor its northern drone strikes is nil so it was either informed by Ukraine or at least the Baltic States across whose airspace the drones are credibly speculated by many in Russia to have passed. Finnish Defense Minister Antti Hakkanen […]
Hybrid Wars
Are There Any Merits To The EU Mediating Between Russia & Ukraine?
Subordination to the West is unthinkable since Putin would never approve of that, nor would the state and society go along with it, so the only real scenarios are stalled talks or Russian muscle-flexing breaking the deadlock. Finnish President Alexander Stubb’s positive response to the scenario of him being designated by the […]
Is Donald Trump Losing The Iran War?
Three months after launching what the White House described as a decisive military campaign against Iran, U.S. President Donald Trump now faces a growing strategic dilemma: how to convince Americans and the world that the war is actually being won. On paper, the United States has achieved significant tactical victories. […]
Summarizing The Situation In The Ukraine War
Two remarkably comprehensive unbiased summaries were published on June 4th (a news article) and May 25th (a news commentary) about the war in Ukraine, and both come from StranaUA, which is one of the five most popular news websites in Ukraine though it’s barred both by Ukraine and by Russia. Its […]
Ukraine Plans For Russia Replacing Musk’s Starlink Over Ukraine
Here is, from Ukraine, Сергій Флеш’s Post on May 31st: Russian counterpart StarLink – project “Bureau 1440” After “Military” generalized all the information available to the public in the format of a video review on the subject of “Dawn” satellites, I literally have questions. The response is structured: 1. The opponent needs a […]
The Starobelsk Dormitory Bombing Reflects Horribly On Ukraine & Its Western Patrons
One of the special operation’s goals is to neutralize these Ukrainian terrorist threats to civilians that Russia long foresaw but was unable to preemptively avert through diplomatic means. Three waves of Ukrainian drones struck a dormitory in Starobelsk, a town in Russia’s formerly Ukrainian Lugansk Region, last week in an […]
Russia’s Massive Strike On Kyiv Presented As Retaliation For The Starobelsk Dormitory Tragedy
fRussia launched one of its largest combined missile and drone attacks on Kyiv in recent months overnight on May 24, leaving at least four people dead and dozens injured across the Ukrainian capital and surrounding region. The strike came only days after the deadly attack on a student dormitory in […]
Tragedy In Starobelsk: Mourning, Questions, And Calls For Accountability After Deadly Strike On College Dormitory
A devastating attack on a college dormitory in Starobelsk, located in the Luhansk region, has left dozens of families grieving and reignited international debate over the human cost of the conflict in Ukraine. According to local authorities and emergency services cited in Russian media reports, 21 students were killed and […]
NATO’s Shooting Down Of A Ukrainian Drone Over Estonia Sent Messages To Kiev, Riga, & Moscow
The primary takeaway is that Estonia doesn’t want any part in whatever Latvia might be cooking up with Ukraine, reasonably calculating that the US might not risk war with Russia if Russia retaliates. Estonia announced that a NATO jet shot down a Ukrainian drone over its airspace on Tuesday after receiving an […]
How Likely Is It That Russia’s Next Special Operation Will Be Against Latvia?
What’s much more probable is kinetic retaliation against reported Ukrainian drone teams there. Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) warned that their country’s armed forces are ready to retaliate against the Ukrainian drone teams that they claim have already deployed to Latvia ahead of “new terrorist strikes against Russia’s rear regions.” SVR explained […]






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