Category: Politics
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Prigozhin’s Saga Continues — Enter Kadyrov
After Prigozhin’s calls to charge top Russian government officials with criminal negligence (I’m paraphrasing) following the Ukrainian drones attack on Moscow, Kadyrov has entered the fray. Since Kadyrov was aligned with Prigozhin in their criticism of Ministry of Defense (and implicitly — Shoigu), it seems now Kadyrov is trying to protect Putin himself. Kadyrov is…
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Commentary on Dreizin’s Analysis and Predictions on Prigozhin and the Wagner Group
Jacob Dreizin provides a unique view on the war in Ukraine. Let’s examine his analysis and predictions regarding the Wagner Group and Prigozhin himself. He talked about the conflict between Prigozhin and Russian MoD as a psy-op operation intended to confuse and deceive the US intelligence community. More recently he wrote that he expects Wagner…
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The Paralysis of the Russian Leadership, the Unilateral Escalation of the Anti-Russian Axis, and the Unspoken Russian Ace in the Sleeve
More than a year into the war, and the top Russian leadership, including the President, who is the top commander of the Russian armed forces according to the Russian constitution, and the Minister of Defense, are absent to all intents and purposes. The supreme commander, the President of the Russian Federation, acted exactly twice so…
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Reid on Belgorod Region: a Commentary on Duran’s Latest Video + Some Science Fiction
Alexander Mercouris and Alex Cristophorou shared their opinions regarding the latest raid of Ukrainian combatants into Belgorod region. They believe the point of the raid was mainly to create a distraction from the Bakhmut/Artemovsk capture. They also expressed their view that this will solidify even more the popular support of Putin in Russia. While I…
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Prigozhin’s Revolt
While the unfortunate events, expressed in the war in Ukraine, stagnated into almost a standstill, the only new development worth noting that caught my attention is the story of the It’s Pennywise lookalike, Prigozhin. Having grinded his forces to the bone, he is now fully engaged in the next step of his grand plan —…
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Russian Navy News and Some Other Updates
After the article from a few days ago which talked about decommissioning of the first Lada class submarine which entered service only in 2021, now there is a TASS article about the most powerful warship in the RuN awaiting the same destiny. Peter the Great is currently the only serving member of the project 1144…
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Prigozhin Pushes for the “Mission Accomplished” and Other News
The most notable of the recent news is the Prigozhin’s remark that Russia has to Finish the Special Military Operation (SMO) soon. Namely to stop any offensive operations, switching instead to the defense. The Government should announce the successful completion of the SMO. Later he self-edited, saying he didn’t mean to suggest the fighting should…
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Understanding the Motivations Behind Decision Making — Failed Predictions
I started this blog mainly to record my thoughts and predictions. I view predictions as an only objective instrument to evaluate the quality of paradigm and the ability to extrapolate this on future events. Many of my early predictions have been a total failure. And only recently I started to understand why — because my…
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Western Sharks Fight Among Themselves
The situation on the Russo-Ukrainian War front went from stable to stagnant. The death and sufferings of Eastern Slaves continues in service of the Russian and Western elites. Yet, the self-inflicted damage the West has done by pursuing a goal of a military and economic destruction of the main opponents to the unipolar world, is…
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Russia Updates (2023-03-01): Fighting Criticism and Anime-Loving Schoolchildren
Russian Duma is working on legislation what would outlaw any criticism of any organizations taking part in the war. The initiative came from the evil clown Prigozhin, who promotes the idea to outlaw not only criticism but also any information regarding criminal record. Since he is a former convict and is under pressure from Russian…