No nation on Earth possesses the kind of advanced weapons that Russia does, and no nation will reach the same capabilities as Russia's weapons currently have, perhaps for decades to come. And this is not just one weapon but a whole range of such weapons, as announced by the Russian President in March last year... Continue Reading →
End of The Normandy Format?
Wow! I had not anticipated a move of this nature to be aired just yet in the Ukraine-Donbass saga. It was obvious to me that the Normandy Format process was going to fail - it was designed to do that - but such an event has not yet happened. Despite that, the main protagonists (Kiev... Continue Reading →
Misconstruing the ‘Fact Patterns’
Situations around Golan Heights and Crimea "manifestly different" — Pompeo So, Pompous Mike Pompeo thinks "The situations around the Golan Heights and Crimea are..." well "...it's complicated, but suffice it to say as we evaluated each of those situations we felt that they were manifestly different as a matter of international law, and we attempted... Continue Reading →
Too soon for ‘In A Relationship’?
"Estonian lawmakers invite Russian colleagues to visit Tallinn" - TASS Ahh! Well, well. Do I detect the first tiny glimmer of a softening of the post-soviet hard line - might even call it antagonism or at least suspicion or even anger and at least in part NATO fostered rejection and opposition to the new Russian... Continue Reading →
Seeing the West as the New (Worse Than) Nazis
While I am sure that many would attempt it, there is actually no-one who could successfully raise a fact-based, logically sound argument against that premise. If the West, led by America, has its way, the planet we now live on will be turned into a vast prison system where numbers will be forcefully kept down... Continue Reading →
Three Years – Back In The Family
Welcome home, people of Crimea, just three years ago today. Once again part of one of the great and historic and peaceful nations of Earth. I salute you ...and secretly wish that I could be as proud of my own nation as you have the justifiable right to be of yours. Oh, and a happy... Continue Reading →
“There’s No Understanding Anything Without A Grasp Of Its History”
"There’s no understanding anything without a grasp of its history—which, of course, is the American failing over and over again." The above is a quote by Patrick L. Smith, interviewer in this piece: “Intelligent people know that the empire is on the downhill”: A veteran CIA agent spills the goods on the Deep State and... Continue Reading →
Oh What A Lovely War
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas Global War - Armageddon style. At least, what the popular conception of that word is. It's the war that we have to have. We haven't had a really good one this century, so far. But it's coming. I can feel it. Not much different from 100 years... Continue Reading →
A Russian Secret, For All
Hush! Don't tell anyone. I won't say a word, except "please read this".
Not Something Else 