Tag: 2022
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Ukranian Strikes on Russian Strategic Airbases — Russian Nuclear Deterrence Compromised
Yesterday, December 5th, Ukraine lunched at least to deep strikes on Russian Strategic Bomber bases deep inside Russian territory. One of those bases, the Engels airbase, is the main base of Russian Strategic Forces’ nuclear triad’s air component. Overview — feel free to skip if you already know this Having three components of nuclear deterrence…
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Iranian Drones and the Mainstream Media — Spinning to the Point of Vertigo
It’s more a filler article, since I didn’t post anything for some time. The reason being nothing is really happening. Nothing of note, that is. Ukraine is still sacrificing its population on the altar of western Russophobia, Russia is still not ready to accept how much rotten its bureaucratic machine is, especially the Ministry of…
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The State of Russian Army — Back to the USSR
In last days I saw three articles on BMPD (a Russian CAST military “think-tank”) Telegram channel: T-62 main battle tank (entered service in 1961) Let’s start with the first article. T-62 is a second post-WWII generation MBT. It succeeded the first past-war generation T-54/55. In turn, it was followed by the third generation T-64 and…
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Responding to Jacob Dreizin’s video “Who deserves the Firing Squad” (in Russian)
Jacob’s video: Кого на расстрел? (1st exclusive video for my Russian audience) He makes a few points I want to address. For some reason, my comments on his blog aren’t being published. I assume the reason is him approving each comment one-by-one, and if there are a large number of comments, not all of them…
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Russian Military Usage of the Iranian Drones
We see Russian Army started to use Iranian drones Shahed-136 (dubbed “Geran’-2” in Russian service) on regular basis. Those drones are now used as cheap cruise missiles. They don’t have an imaging sensor, so they cannot be used for reconnaissance or for autonomous target detection. Instead, they rely on a GPS navigation, which, as I…
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The cause and effect of the Partial Mobilization
I’m becoming more and more convinced that that has happened was something like this: The Government doesn’t trust the people with the truth, so it lies and spins and make excuses. That causes the people to lose faith in the government. And the spiral continues. This is the sorry state of affairs right now, and…
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SMO to ATO and the Armenian-Azerbaijani Conflict.
Comments on Duran’s latest video “Calm in the Kremlin, SMO plan for now. ATO remains on the table”. I feel like Alexander is misunderstanding what happened with Zyuganov’s proposal and Peskov’s comment. Zyuganov made a proposal, which, to my understanding, was built around one central idea — to upgrade the SMO in Ukraine legally in…
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Degrading the Special Military Operation
In response to the Duran’s video “Upgrading the Special Military Operation”. While I agree with most of what Alexander Mercouris is saying, my own conclusion is quite opposite. We are not witnessing the escalation of the Russian military efforts in Ukraine, but in fact the effects of the opposite. Strelkov talked in one of his…
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Ukraine War: Updates and thoughts
New video from Alexander Mercouris and my commentary to it, and also is the slow pacing of Russian advances was always inevitable? Firstly I want to comment on some points from Alexander’s analysis, namely the increase in size of the Russian Armed Forces and the disconnection of Ukraine from Zaparozhian nuclear power plant. Russian Army…
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Explosions at Saki Airbase in Crimea: Did RuMoD lied and what happened?
A lie or not a lie? After some time passed, the picture of what have occurred at the RuAF (Russian Air Force) operated Saki Airbase at Crimea started to clear out, and I believe we now know enough to talk about it. First of all, the most important question here is did the RuMoD (Russian…
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