What Next in the Electric War for Ukraine – How Marshal Kutuzov’s Golden Bridge for Napoleon’s Retreat Is Working Today
John Helmer’s update on the logic and progress of Russia’s attacks on the Ukraine electric grid.
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Diesel Crisis Deepens As Inventories Fall To Dangerous Levels
Diesel fuel is in scarcer supply than ever. Shortages coming?
Read more...Vietnam Army General Giap on How To Win, British Armchair General Freedman on How To Lose
Sir Lawrence Freedman declares victory for Ukraine is inevitable because Putin.
Read more...EU Plays Hardball With Serbia Over Its Russia Ties
By Conor Gallagher Much like Ankara, Belgrade has tried to stay above the fray in the conflict between NATO and Russia. While Serbia doesn’t share the same geographic significance and isn’t a member of NATO like Turkey, it is one of Russia’s strongest allies in Europe, and is now receiving the same pressure to choose […]
Read more...Is the UK About to Hit the Wall?
The UK is in sorry shape…..and is looking like the canary in the economic coal mine.
Read more...Why the Soviet Union Imploded
The Soviet Union depended on energy sales and consumer production stagnated. Reforms promoted the rise of oligarchs and the 1990s free fall.
Read more...Is the US Preparing for the “NATOization” of Bosnia?
By Conor Gallagher As the political situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina continues to deteriorate, it’s looking increasingly likely that NATO forces will return to the country as Washington’s answer to a problem it has created. Questions over the integrity of the October 2 election are ratcheting up tensions in the ethnically-divided country. On top of […]
Read more...Biden Administration Doubles Down on Sanctions Self-Harm: China Chip Export Ban, Possible Russia Aluminum Sanctions, All Systems Still Go with Russian Oil Price Cap
The sanctions war situation has developed not necessarily to America’s advantage.
Read more...The Odessa Connection? The Ukrainian M.O. for the Crimean Bridge Attack – This Is How The Operation Worked To The Point Of Detonation
The Russian investigation of the Kerch brigde bombing claims that a grain transport ship out of Odessa moved the explosives.
Read more...Whose Cat Caught the German Tongue? No Blame for Russia After German Train Sabotage on Sunday Morning, No Blame for Nord Stream Sabotage, Yet
Another apparent act of sabotage in Germany, yet the press is peculiarly refusing to play “whodunnit”.
Read more...EU Imposes Secondary Sanctions on Russian Steel in Eighth Sanctions Package. Is Türkiye the Target?
the EU using an obscure steel secondary sanction to whack Türkiye?
Read more...Russian Army Turning Out the Lights: US Losing Electricity War in Ukraine
The dire and worsening state of Urkraine’s electricity supply has gone curiously unnoticed by Western commentators.
Read more...The U.S. Is Preparing Its Response to the “Short-Sighted” Strategy of OPEC+
The US is having a hissy over the OPEC+ production cut. Not a good look.
Read more...Washington, Brussels Set Sights on TurkStream Pipeline Amid Crackdown on Ankara-Moscow Cooperation
By Conor Gallagher At the beginning of this year there were four pipelines carrying natural gas from Russia to Europe, and a fifth (Nord Stream 2) was about to come online. Now Nord Stream 1 and 2 are dead, the Yamal Pipeline is closed, and the amount of gas flowing through Ukraine is greatly diminished. […]
Read more...The Inevitable Financial Crisis
We’re again in the Wile E Coyote phase of a financial crisis, but this time, the real economy problems are far worse than in 2008.
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