Samizdata quote of the day – There is still nothing ‘realistic’ about ‘Russia...
The Ukraine conflict has merely demonstrated that Mearsheimer’s realism is as ineffective at understanding the present as it has been at predicting the future or explaining the past. Fitting Putin’s...
View ArticleRussia’s Grand Strategy and Ukraine
Perun has made one of his most ambitious presentations. Recommended.
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day – sometimes one is right, the other is wrong
As for Ukraine itself — yes, it’s complicated. History always is. It’s true that ever since independence, the country’s politics have been horrendously corrupt, as evidenced by Zelenskyy’s recent...
View ArticleUkraine’s Planned Counteroffensive – force readiness, leaks, politics &...
Yet another very interesting presentation from Perun…
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Reade #MeToo
Tara Reade, the woman who accused Joe Biden of having sexually assaulted her when she worked for him as a Congressional aide, has “defected” to Russia. BREAKING: A Statement and Press Conference from...
View ArticleWhat on earth is happening in Rostov?
This surreal turn in the 2023 plotline is a bold stroke, but if the writers can pull off the swivel from tragedy to black comedy, I could get to like it. Russia-Ukraine war live: Wagner chief claims to...
View ArticleBlyatskrieg in Russia
We live in interesting times… https://www.samizdata.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Zelenskyy-popcorn.mp4
View ArticleUkraine’s counter offensive (so far) – attrition, adaptation & what next?
More interesting analysis by Perun…
View ArticleSamizdata 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...
View ArticleHow Putin fooled the Western Left…& influenced some US Republicans
Well worth watching…
View ArticleSamizdata 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,...
View ArticleLin 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...
View ArticleAn 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.
View ArticleKaja 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleWhy the Ukraine War is not actually a stalemate
A useful perspective for people who just read headlines.
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