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Blyatskrieg in Russia

We live in interesting times… https://www.samizdata.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Zelenskyy-popcorn.mp4

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Ukraine’s counter offensive (so far) – attrition, adaptation & what next?

More interesting analysis by Perun…

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Samizdata quote of the day – a question of evil

Today Moscow repeats its crime by invading Ukraine, by denying the existence of a Ukrainian nation. Think also of Russia’s accomplices in the West — those monstrous liars and accessories after the...

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Dropped to a ten-rupee jezail

A scrimmage in a Border Station — A canter down some dark defile —Two thousand pounds of education Drops to a ten-rupee jezail —The Crammer’s boast, the Squadron’s pride,Shot like a rabbit in a ride! I...

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Understanding Turkish geopolitics

Highly recommended…

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How Putin fooled the Western Left…& influenced some US Republicans

Well worth watching…

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Samizdata quote of the day – Putin is not a mystery

Putin’s objectives are not an enigma, a mystery, or a riddle. As McKew emphasizes, they have been spelled out again and again in speeches, books, editorial, official documents, journal articles,...

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Lin Biao welcomes Prigozhin to the club

From the Wikipedia entry for Lin Biao: Lin became instrumental in creating the foundations for Mao Zedong’s cult of personality in the early 1960s, and was rewarded for his service in the Cultural...

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An appraisal of the Ukrainian offensive

Yet another interesting chat by Perun. People expected Zaluzhnyi to be channelling Heinz Guderian, whereas he is actually channelling John Monash.

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Kaja Kallas sometimes seems like the only adult in the room

When people call for negotiations with Russia… Even before #Russia launched its attack on #Ukraine, Estonian Prime Minister @kajakallas warned Western leaders not to make any concessions to the...

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The lever wasn’t long enough

“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world”, the great mathematician Archimedes is supposed to have said. Maybe it was their company name that led...

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Why the Ukraine War is not actually a stalemate

A useful perspective for people who just read headlines.

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