Tag: Russia-Ukraine War 2022
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Russo-Ukrainian War Press Updates (2023-05-16) and the Usual Rant
In a non-important but somewhat indicative news articles of the last few days, a few caught my eye. Coinciding with the start of the Ukrainian spring offensive which is intended to push Russia back to the pre-2022 or even pre-2014 borders. While some claim the offensive is not yet begun, it is obvious to me…
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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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World News Updates (2023-03-08)
Current issues: First of all today is the women’s international day, so my best wishes to all women of the world. Sadly, what comes in that regard is the dire state of women’s rights today. I’m not talking about wokeness which promotes abortions, destroys traditional family values, pushes women into a workforce for higher profits…
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One Year Anniversary: Crisis Wasted
Though a war is a terrible thing, especially a civilian war, a crisis always presents possibility to break out of stagnation of stale incompetency and slow creeping decay of corruption. This war was supposed to serve as a wakeup call for Kremlin dwellers, forcing reforms of Russian economy, military, and eventually the society and government…
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RU-UA War Status — Approaching the Anniversary (2023-02-21)
The time for Russian winter big offensive is running out. It is possible that it would not happen after the failed offensive operation in Ugledar and the parting of ways between Wagner’s owner and Russian MoD. The first is the result of incompetent commanders on middle and high levels, and possibly the shortages of certain…
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Updates (2023-02-12)
Russian Army conducted another wave of deep-rear strikes in UA territory. This time electricity-generating turbines of many power plants were hit, together with the usual 300kv class transformers. After many long months of mostly pointless “sparing” strikes on transformers only, someone in the Russian MoD finally made the obvious choice of targeting the power stations…
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Russia at War Updates (2023-02-10)
UA side distributed a footage of failed Russian assault on Ugledar. Strelkov comments on the attempt, detailing the total incompetency of the commanders who developed the operation. As usual we don’t hear names of those commanders, but we know that the top commander in charge of all Russian Army engaged in the war is none…
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