This month, like every year, the United Nations General Assembly takes place. Heads of State take the floor to send messages to the world. These messages are broadcast on TV, transcribed, and
NATO is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The name should have been changed long ago, when NATO shifted its focus and operations south and eastward. NATO is shifting once again, most seriously by expanding
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It is impossible to know if Joe Biden will tough it out, hang in there as president, and run for reelection. Most pundits say if that happens –he stays in office and
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The Ukraine war will end in a surrender, not in a negotiated deal. That is my sense of where the war is headed and why the parties cannot negotiate a settlement. The
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On June 25th Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin telephoned Russian Minister of Defense Andrew Belousov. It was the first contact between the US and Russian defense heads in more than a year
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Russia has used a new weapon in the Ukraine war. It is a huge glide bomb, officially the FAB-3000 M-54 equipped with a UMPK kit. It is a 3,000 KG weapon (all
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Jens Stoltenberg, the 13th secretary general of NATO, says that NATO is in talks to deploy more nuclear weapons and modernize their delivery systems. Stoltenberg told the Telegraph in the UK: “I won’t go into operational
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The danger is rising that the Ukraine war will spill over to Europe. The risk of a European war has never been so high. The general consensus among military experts is that Ukraine
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President Vladimir Putin says that it might be possible to reach a deal with Ukraine based on the failed Istanbul Communique and taking into account recent territorial changes in Ukraine. The Istanbul
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The Army is funding two competitors to build a new, lighter, Abrams tank, dubbed Abrams X. The new tank will feature a hybrid electric drive, have a reduced crew size, and will have an
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NATO is flirting with war and extinction. France is now “officially” sending troops to Ukraine (they have been there for some time) and NATO countries are demanding strikes deep inside Russia. Meanwhile, the US has
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On May 23rd drones launched from Ukraine hit a Russian strategic radar station in Armavir, Russia. This attack is not the first time that nuclear facilities in Russia have been targeted and
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There is a large Russian operation going on in Ukraine focused on the Kharkov area. At the same time, the Russians are also attacking elsewhere, primarily in Donbas but also in Zaphorize.
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When the Ukrainians have taken apart Russian weapons they have found them stuffed with western electronics, mainly American. This applies to Russia’s highly successful Lancet Kamikaze drone, aka a loitering munition. In the Lancet-3, a
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NATO is starting to deploy combat troops to Ukraine. They are in uniform and mostly are concentrated in the western part of the country, although in some cases they are close to the
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There is still a great deal to learn about Iran’s drone and missile attack on Israel. Even so, it is very clear that if such an attack was launched by China against
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