The US and European NATO-countries are emptying their warehouses in an attempt to stem the tide, as Ukraine is losing badly all along the frontlines, or so it seems. At the same time Blinken is in China to threaten the country with repercussions if it refuses to dump Russia by the wayside, and hand …
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Cheering for extra time, and more casualties
Credible sources I use insist that the collective west simply doesn’t have the capacity to produce enough weapons and ammo for Ukraine to satisfy demand. The simple fact that the Czech president was declared a hero for finding shells in ‘third’ countries, while it may take another year for them …
In the fog of war
The major news regarding the wars NATO and its allies are waging was the approval of a long awaited ‘aid package’ of $61 billion from the US to Ukraine. Clearly, this is subsidy for the American weapons industry, and a windfall for anyone invested in it, gambling on a last moment change of heart o…
Who do you want to lead?
On ‘Tik-Tok’ Boris Johnson told the world that NATO can’t afford to lose Ukraine, since it would be the end of western ‘Hegemony’. Did he really say that, or was that some kind of ‘Deep Fake’ production? Western ‘Hegemony? Really? Increasingly we need to question stuff presented to u…
Are we dealing with a Death Cult?
Multiple warheads struck Israel during the recent attack by Iran. Despite the efforts of Israel, and her NATO allies, and Jordan, to intercept them. Reportedly the total cost to Israel and its allies in spent inventory was 1.3 Billion Dollars, since these missiles and aircraft, with their support, d…
How did it come to this?
In our part of the world, roughly the ‘G-7 countries’, their EU-partner and Israel, the adults have left the room after the collapse of the Soviet Union. In part it was an accident waiting to happen, with an increasing number of people rejecting the concept of individual responsibility, shifting t…
This is so sad
Drones struck the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) and adjacent training center, with representatives of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) present. Ukraine says that Russia did it, although the Russians are the present owners of the ZNPP, and Ukraine targeted the plant before. It…
Why Clausewitz matters
If you do not possess the means to defend yourself, you need to get the Hell out of Dodge, or negotiate. Researchers identified a 'Fight or Flight'-impulse ages ago as a natural response in a threatening situation. It was thought that 'negotiating' was typical for humans, until researchers found tha…
What is Macron up to?
But is it true? We all know that the first victim of war is the truth. Some sources are more reliable than others and in general a party losing badly will try to obscure the facts so as not to hurt morale or sink the interest of 'investors'. Navigating this maze to analyse what we are witnessing tak…
Striking at Russia
Ukraine struck a production center for drones in Russia, 1200 kilometers from its border, with an aircraft looking a lot like a converted Cessna, apparently filled with explosives. It was either piloted, or converted to be remotely piloted, using a satellite link. The normal range of such a tiny sin…