Tag: war
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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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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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Kremlin Has No Clear Vision of It’s Ultimate Goals in Ukraine
The Lavrov’s interview about the “new” realities of the war and how HIMARS etc. is affecting those realities is pure nonsense. “The President was very clear, as you quoted: denazification and demilitarization in the sense that there should be no threat to our security, no military threat from Ukraine’s territory, and this objective remains,” Lavrov…
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Scott Ritter’s “Game Change” critique
I just listened for a mix of Scott’s discussions, regarding his new vision of the events on the ground in Ukraine. And I wanted to make some counterpoints. First of all, I have to say that Scott was trolled very hard since his change of harts (of a sort). I’m not talking about disagreements with…
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Harpoon Anti-Ship Missiles supplies for Ukraine
Some analysts believe that Harpoon missiles supplies to Ukraine doesn’t matter much (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOjWBwPlbTQ). The reasons are: they would be detected and destroyed by Russians soon enought; they are not enough to change the status quo in the Black Sea — Russians would have naval superiority either way. Well, I disagree. First, unlike any regular…
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Thoughts regarding Western change of its end-goal from hybrid victory to diplomatic solution in Ukraine
It is something which is being talked about quite a lot recently. For example, in the latest episode on his YouTube channel, Alex Mercouris discusses this possibility, as the preferred way out of this bloody conflict. I will summarize the main point using the Russian proverb: “bad peace is better than a good war”. The…
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Putin is ordering to increase payments to servicemen deployed in Ukraine
The article in Russian is here. As the headline said, Putin wants to increase the payments for the soldiers and personnel deployed in Ukraine. His reasoning, if the article is correct, is goes like that: since they are serving abroad, and the exchange rates of US dollar to ruble fell significantly, then it would be…
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