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Russia Hits Ukraine With Terror Missiles

Posted on October 10, 2022 by Lawrence Person

Following the successful strike on the strategically important Kerch Straight Bridge, Russia responded by launching a volley of missiles into random neighborhoods in Kiev and elsewhere. A series of deadly blasts rocked central Kyiv Monday morning, shattering months of relative … Continue reading →

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Kerch Strait Bridge Update: Russia’s Still Using It

Posted on October 9, 2022 by Lawrence Person

As bad as the damage looked from the Kerch Strait Bridge explosion, Russia is still using the bridge: The rail bridge has two tracks going each way, and they ran a test 15-car train on the other span. I have … Continue reading →

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Ukraine Hits Train On Crimean Bridge

Posted on October 8, 2022 by Lawrence Person

Ukraine manages to nail a Russian train laden with war materials as it was transiting the Kerch Strait Bridge. A massive fire is burning on the Kirch Strait Bridge that connects Russia to Crimea Saturday morning, with images showing multiple … Continue reading →

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Multiple Russian Fronts Collapsing

Posted on October 5, 2022 by Lawrence Person

Ukraine continues to liberate territory from its Russian occupiers, not only in the Kharkiv/northeast front, but also on the Kherson/southwest front, where the last few days have seen a rapid collapse in Russian lines. ISW’s daily brief: Ukrainian forces continued … Continue reading →

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Important Lesson: Don’t Trust Alex Jones

Posted on October 3, 2022 by Lawrence Person

Alex Jones is one of those gadfly media personalities that gets lumped in with regular conservative media, partial to smear said media (“Alex Jones, Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, they’re all lunatics!”) and partially because sometimes Jones exposes some of the … Continue reading →

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The Ukrainian Way of War

Posted on October 1, 2022 by Lawrence Person

This is an interesting video of Ukrainian tanks taking out a Russian strongpoint dubbed “Moscow.” Takeaways: They had to break off the attack and return to base for more ammunition. “A tank has 22 shells, which isn’t enough for attack.” … Continue reading →

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Will Dollar-Pound Parity Unleash Weirdness?

Posted on September 28, 2022 by Lawrence Person

A variety of maladies (global inflation, soaring energy costs due to the Russo-Ukrainian War, and post-Brexit trade wrangles, among others) has the English pound approaching parity with the U.S dollar. Can the pound reach parity versus the dollar? It’s now … Continue reading →

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A Swimming Ratte?

Posted on September 24, 2022 by Lawrence Person

This video, covering a scaled down prototype of the Ultra Heavy-Lift Amphibious Connector (UHAC) craft, caught my attention: The UHAC drives across the water on treads that double as paddlewheel-style water propulsion. That video dropped this week, but most of … Continue reading →

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Details On Russia’s Mobilization

Posted on September 22, 2022 by Lawrence Person

At lot of details of how Russia will carry out its projected 300,000 man mobilization discussed yesterday are unclear. Binkov’s Battlegrounds, which covers a lot of different military topics, discusses some of the details about how it would (theoretically) be … Continue reading →

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Putin Chooses Mobilization, Sham Referendum, Continuing Humiliation

Posted on September 21, 2022 by Lawrence Person

Faced with the continued erosion of Russia’s military position in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has chosen to double-down on failure. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday announced the partial mobilization of military reservists, a significant escalation of his war in Ukraine … Continue reading →

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