Yeah no, you can't, unless you are living under a rock or you are Russia's useful idiot. This is what surrender looks like: https://www.euractiv.com/w...
Except, of course, it does neither, as we can see in front of our own eyes. What it does though is relieve the West from the cost and the responsibili...
That the pipes were blown up from inside would be very obvious to even a casual inspection, I would think. Unless they want everyone to know and don't...
The "bridge-burning" theory is plausible, but highly speculative. Still, the alternatives are even more problematic. The players who more obviously st...
I am coming from a mostly classical background, and from there expanding into more difficult (for me) modern music. Lately I've been listening to more...
And likewisen, he takes Putin's nuclear threats seriously enough - I don't know where @"Manuel" gets the idea that he is the lone voice in the wildern...
Yeah, right. Putin would've cancelled the invasion that he had been planning for at least a year if only he got the right assurances at the last momen...
This is basically the theory that Branislav Slantchev has proposed: Putin is like the commander who orders the bridge to be blown up so that his troop...
I see you like Max Reger - or just exploring? Like most, probably, I am not very familiar with his quite voluminous output. Hadn't heard these works b...
Here is another map with more detail: https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/Q4ZNRTW6QNATLKTRWGYDKJAYJY.jpg (That pocke...
György Ligeti: Requiem : II Kyrie https://youtu.be/jqaGdIIUUQY The other movements: https://youtu.be/qS9aZ6lHClI https://youtu.be/JCwh65HSlEo https://...
Putin today: "People of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporozhie are now our citizens. Forever." Putin eight years ago (upon the annexation of Crimea)...
Gazprom already declared force majeure earlier this year, apparently due to its "problems" with turbines. They already turned off Nord Stream 1, with ...
I am skeptical about grand metaphysical explanations of world events, but speaking of 'NATO as a threat narrative', Foreign Policy reports that Russia...
Meanwhile, the "partial mobilization" is going well. It was initiated blyatzkrieg-style, much like the war on Ukraine, only this time the target was t...
Gasprom just issued an ultimatum to Ukraine's gas operator Naftogas. The likely outcome of this is that unless Ukraine consents to deliver Russian gas...
Not sure what you consider to be "the like" of NYT. It has few peers, in my opinion. (That is, if you are after reporting and analysis. I generally av...
Timothy Snyder's Yale course The Making of Modern Ukraine (ongoing) I haven't listened to it, but will give it a try when I have time. 1 Ukrainian Que...
Not just the president of Kyrgyzstan, but the leaders of Turkey, India and Azerbaijan also made Putin wait for them. https://twitter.com/skazal_on/sta...
If the original plan was a blitzkrieg, as the evidence indicates, then the military utility of Belarus would end with the cessation of hostilities. As...
The set of mental faculties with which we are born is rather limited, so in a literal sense, the answer to your question is, obviously, no. But in a l...
That was true once, but nowadays we don't need to wait years or decades for court historians to write their politically correct histories. We can get ...
I see you mentioned me, but same applies to you as to boethius: I don't read your posts, I don't care what you think, so don't jump up and down trying...
Follow-up on that: Putin in Samarkand is not a happy boy. China has "questions and concerns." So does India: Modi said that "today’s era is not one fo...
Just to put things into perspective: https://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/DraftUkraineCoTMarch22%2C2022.png https://www.understandingw...
Just to be clear, the bold, stocky guy seen at the beginning of each clip, is Valerii Zaluzhnyi, commander of the armed forces. "Failures indicate tha...
What's more significant is that Xi's first foreign trip since the pandemic began will be not to Russia but to Kazakhstan, and the first head of state ...
Analysts are trying to guess Russia's response to the rout in the Kharkov region. Some fear the worst, reminding us (as @"ssu" has done in the past) t...
Khodarkovsky, the exiled former Russian oligarch, posted a supposedly leaked government document that refers to internal MOD data and gives the number...
Putin explained the reasons for the "special military operation" to some schoolchildren yesterday, saying that an "anti-Russian enclave" is forming in...
Ukrainian fighters say that generally they have enough manpower, although many volunteers from the TDF are not ready for combat. Sometimes entire deta...
Yes, I saw that too. Igor Mangushev is a mercenary who is currently fighting in Ukraine. He is said to be the founder of the mercenary company Yenot (...
The first and the second paragraphs in your Kelly quote seem to offer different takes on "is." But there are still more moods and nuances. We can repo...
Today marks half a year since the start of the invasion, and by coincidence (or not?), today is also Ukrainian Independence day. So, many specials and...
And before WW2 there were the three Baltic states that USSR occupied without a fight. The disastrous Winter War that preceded this didn't discourage t...
Insane - no. Isolated, poorly informed, surrounded by a small circle yes-men who tell him only what he wants to hear - much more likely. Continuing th...
This is a common tack among demagogues and propagandists: emphasize (or fabricate) uncertainty, throw up not one but many alternative narratives. Anyt...
Speaking of FSB, here is the next installment of WoPo's investigative articles on pre-war intelligence: FSB errors played crucial role in Russia's fai...
Commanders are in a pickle: officially they are not at war, and so peacetime laws apply. Which means that they can't force anyone to fight. Any contra...
A big article in WoPo about US prewar intel: As Russia prepared to invade Ukraine, U.S. struggled to convince Zelensky, allies of threat (If you run i...
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