UKRAINIAN GLORY

“The frontline is like Terminator”

  Per The Guardian The frontline is like Terminator … “This is what modern warfare looks like. Armies everywhere will have to robotise,” said Pavlov, a lieutenant with Ukraine’s 3rd army corps. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is now in its fifth...

Chris Snow on Russia’s Helpless Flailing

  At Medium, Chris Snow shows how badly Russia is flailing militarily.  Excerpt: The Ukrainian head of state says that Russia’s assault is falling far short of what its commanders had promised Moscow. According to him, Russia mobilizes roughly 40,000–45,000 men...

Putin vs. Ukraine: the Battle of the Narratives.

© Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, CC BY-SA 2.0 Goerge Barros, the Russia team lead at the Institute for the Study of War, writing at Foreign Policy explains Putin’s “cognitive warfare.” Russian President Vladimir Putin has worked hard to convince the...

Putin is Doomed, Quickly or Slowly

From The Banter. at Substack, Why Putin can’t make a deal.  Excerpt: If you haven’t listened to the recent interview I did with geopolitical expert Pyotr Kurzin on where peace talk stand between Russia and Ukraine, I highly recommend it. One thing that stood out...