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What are the key takeaways? What can the West do to improve its military effectiveness? 1) Mass matters - you need the bulk to endure a war of attrition. Both the key Western rivals of Russia and China have this bulk in basic weaponry, manpower and munitions. The West needs to think about how...

On December 19, 2023, a number of hierarchs and clergy of local Orthodox churches together with non-governmental organizations with consultative status at the Economic and Social Council, such as Public Advocacy, VSI Zmogaus Teisiu Apsauga, European Institute for Religion and Law, signed an...

Description: This video is about the devastation that Russia has wrought in Ukraine, captured in Satellite imagery. These photos tell a very unnerving story about how modern warfare can disrupt the lives of ordinary civilian people in dangerous and profound ways. Key points: -Invasion of Kyiv...

The US tried to prevent Ukraine from killing a high-ranking Russian military official at the onset of Russia's war in Ukraine, according to an investigation published Saturday by The New York Times. In April, Russian Gen. Valery Gerasimov made plans to travel to Russia's frontlines, according...

Two people died Tuesday afternoon after a projectile struck an area where grain was drying in Przewodów, a Polish village near the border with Ukraine, domestic media reported. The Polish government raised its army's level of readiness after Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki called an emergency...

The war in Ukraine continues as Winter approaches. Putin seeks to weaken Ukrainian resolve by destroying their ability to keep themselves warm in the cold of Winter. Ukrainian troops continue to advance toward Kherson but the Russians are digging in. The Russians continue to throw themselves...

Ukraine war: Russia to evacuate civilians from Kherson Putin has raised the idea of withdrawing civilians from Kherson on the West bank of the Dnieper. The situation is that Ukraine is advancing and with the cutting of bridges and ferry links logistical supply of the city and its area is a...

Why Ukraine's Sievierodonetsk is so important | DW | 09.06.2022 The city of Sievierodonetsk now has no bridges to it for resupply or escape. If the city falls then the Russians will be able to claim a victory comparable to the fall of Mariupol. This shifts the momentum of the war in their...

Intelligence reports from the British indicate that Putin has lost close to a third of the men he deployed for this operation - that is approximately 50000 men killed or wounded. The Ukrainians have beaten the Russians off at Kyiv and Kharkiv. Unbelievably the Russians have still not taken...

Richard Haass, a veteran diplomat and president of the Council on Foreign Relations, in a tweet responding to reports on the Moskva said he couldn't "fathom why US officials are discussing US helping Ukraine sink Russian ships or kill its generals." Haass warned that "this bolsters Putin's...

Mariupol Defender Pleads for Help: ‘Days, or Hours Left’ | Time Ukraine needs aircraft and a missile defense system. Biden needs to step up.

For some years now there has been extensive revisionism going on in Western culture as we have revised our view of our own history and attempted to build new cultural and trade connections with emerging countries. Political correctness on race and racism is not just about imperial guilt and...

UK PM and German Chancellor to hold talks on reducing dependence on Russian gas The Guardian 8/4/2022 (For US readers: The 'gas' mentioned in the report is gaseous gas - not gasoline - OB) Boris Johnson is set to meet the German Chancellor as they look to discuss how to help European countries...

United Nations suspends Russia from human rights body ABC (Australia) News 8/4/2022 The United Nations General Assembly has suspended Russia from the UN Human Rights Council over reports of "gross and systematic violations and abuses of human rights" by invading Russian troops in Ukraine...

Putin has said he wants to denazify Ukraine. What Putin’s talking about when he talks about ‘denazification’ - Jewish Telegraphic Agency What should Russia do with Ukraine? [Translation of a propaganda article by a Russian journalist] In Bucha dead prisoners with their hands tied behind...

Here's a video about an 8 year prophecy from Ukraine from Dr. Bob Thiel. Here's some of what was said: Many Ukranians and Russians are descendents of the Medes. Ukraine may be a little horn that joins the E.U. and ends up leading the E.U. (I would say if this happens it will be because of...

"The magnitude of the aggressive moves taken by the Pentagon and CIA are just now becoming apparent." Washington Helped Trigger the Ukraine War - The American Conservative

Ukraine and Russia account for 28% of the world's cereal exports. Countries in the Middle East import as much as half their calory needs. At a time when many Arab countries have nearly exhausted the underground aquifers used to water their dry fields and continued population growth this...

This whole Russo-Ukrainian war has brought into focus something that I find needlessly silly. All this fighting about what foreigners call each other and their places. We are told that we must drop the article now, saying Ukraine instead of the Ukraine, and transliterate Kiev as Kyiv. For you...

I wonder what people think would have happened with Ukraine if supposedly hawkish Hillary Clinton had won the Presidential election. I'm hoping this thread will be irenic and adhere to the forum rules.