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Midweek Update#25: Sanctions Without China Are A Sign Of Defeat

So, It Turns Out That The US Is Winning!; A Story Illustrating Why This Pentagon Cannot Be Trusted

Live with Phillips P. OBrien and Bob Rae

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Canada Is Right, The USA Cannot Be Trusted

Others Must Act Like

Weekend Update #199: Ukraine’s Campaign Against Russian Oil Infrastructure Should Be The Focus

The Trump Con Comes To Its Natural Conclusion, More Time For Putin: Fedorov Calls For Ukrainian Elections

The US Does Not Understand Air Power, Does Ukraine?

The Wildberries Campaign And The Fallacy Of Signalling

Midweek Update #24: The USA Is Not A Serious Country

In Strategy And Planning The USA Is A Self-Destructive Mess: Here Is A Short-Term Way To Stop The Bleeding

Is The American Age In The Western Pacific Over As Well?

The Last Few Days Make A Mockery Of US Military Power In This Vital Area

Weekend Update #198: Russia's Allies Are More Helpful Than Ukraine's

Actually, The USA Is Quite A Good Ally For Russia; Ukraine Is Slowly But Steadily Liberating Territory.

Midweek Update #23: Can He Keep It Going Through The Election?

The State Of The US Military Is Pretty Distressing

Replenishing Stocks Will Just Recreate A Failed Military

The US Military Must Be Remade--Not Reconstructed As It Was

Weekend Update #197: Anatomy Of A Con:

The Overreaction In the Press: Ukraine Has Not Gone From Winning To Losing

AI And War Is Being Oversold Right Now

The US and Ukrainian Bombing Campaigns Show How Far It Has To Go

Midweek Update #22: The American Age in the Persian Gulf Is Over

The US is Running Out Of Weapons, Pulling Out Forces, And Losing The Faith Of The Region's States. That Will Not Be Easily Undone

Live with Phillips P. OBrien and Fabian Hoffmann

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Do Not Forget That Wars Demand Money

I Doubt The US Can Afford To Escalate And Fight A Long War, Even If It Wanted To

Weekend Update #196: The Week When Hope Killed, Literally

Drapatyi and Fedorov update; Ports/Shipping Update

Is China Going In For The Kill?

Trump Has Left The US More Vulnerable Than It Has Been Since 1861

Live with Phillips P. OBrien and Ivanna Ryzhkova

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Midweek Update #21: Iran Is Toying With The USA

Plus: Iranian Strategy; How Does This End?

It Is All One

Because a Racist, Conspiracist, Anti-Democrat, Oppression-Supporting, Trump-Worshipper Takes One Good Position, Does Not Make Her Worthy Of Praise

Weekend Update #195: The Worst Week Becomes Much Better (But Not The Best)

Major General Mykhailo Drapatyi; Wildberries and Azov

Scenarios For Ending The Russo-Ukraine War

How Wars End Is A Different Process Than You Think

Live with Phillips P. OBrien and Shaun Pinner

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Midweek Update #20: Each Day The US Weakens Itself

What It Means For US-China Relations

Bravery Does Not Win Wars

Even With Extra Testosterone Supplements

Weekend Update #194: The Worst Week For Ukraine In Years. Can It Become The Best?

An update on Ukraine and Patriots; Moscow and Kyiv

Ask Me Anything

After publication update.

Midweek Update #19: What Do We Know?

Also, Living In A Consequence-Free World Has Consequences, The US Is Finding That Out.

Yes, We Are In A Revolution In Military Affairs

And It is Just Starting and Is Unstoppable

Lindsey Graham On Ukraine and Trump

In His Own Words

Weekend Update #193: What Is Happening In The Sea Of Azov?

Trump Gifts Putin Time; Ukraine Strikes Deep

The Worst NATO Summit In History

And The Proof Is In The Pudding

Live with Phillips P. OBrien and Glenn Kessler

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Midweek Update #18: Is It So Bad It's Good?

The Hunt For A Fig Leaf

Is Putin Gearing Up To Slaughter More Russians?

Hello All,

Live with Phillips P. OBrien, Andriy Zagorodnyuk and Edward Stringer

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Weekend Update #192: Can Russia Counter?

India Shows The True Fraudulence Of US Sanctions, Two Reports Worth Reading

Can Americans Become Americans Again? A Question for July 4th

Just adding this little note an hour after publication.

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Midweek Update #10: Little Changes In US-Iran, Potentially Lots With US-China

What Did The Bombing Campaign Accomplish?; Will China Save The US With Iran?

The US Military Is Failing: Facts Need To Be Faced

Updates On The Two Wars First

Weekend Update #184: A Most Revealing Parade

Also: Are We About To See Trump's Greatest Public Humiliation?; Ukrainian Ranged Strike Improves—The Reasons For This Week

Watch Out For Tomorrow

Plans For The Russian Victory Day Parade Has Revealed Many Things And More Might Be About To Happen

Live with Phillips P. OBrien, Mykola Bielieskov and Valeriia Soloviova

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Midweek Update #9: One Thing Changes And It Is Not What You Think

Trump Guides And Then Does Not, But Nothing Ever Changed

Taking The "Initiative" In War Might Not Be What You Have Been Told

Also: The US Will "Guide" Vessels In The Strait--What That Might Mean

Weekend Update #183: Ukraine Taking The Initiative?

Long Range and Medium Strike; The Land War; The US Is Now Boasting About Not Helping

The US-Iran War Could Be Over Sooner Than You Think

There really is only one victory condition left

Midweek Update #8: Two Races Against Time

The Iranian Race, The US Race; The Three Narratives

Trump Blinked

What It Could Mean

Weekend Update #182: A Beautiful Friendship: Europe And Ukraine Are Getting Their Act Together

A Revealing Week In the Air War; The Machine War, More Ukrainian Thoughts

Have We Fallen For The Idea We Are "Crisis-Proof"

The Current Wisdom Is That Geopolitical Shocks Can Always Be Weathered. What If We Are Wrong?

Midweek Update #7: The Most Corrupt War In US History

Trump Is Passing The Initiative To Iran; Oil Markets, Watch Out If They Lose Their Optimism

What Does War Is "Too Easy" For The USA Mean?

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Weekend Update #181; Germany Raises The Pot For Ukraine

The USA Boasts, Bluffs And Then Folds; More On Ukraine Fighting Humans With Machines

The USA Does Not Understand War

Ukraine Taking A Position With Machines Not Soldiers Makes That Clearer Than Ever

Midweek Update #6: The Blockade: Fact And Fiction

There Can Only Be One; Do Not Pretend This Has Been “Precise” Or “Surgical”

The US Blockade Of Iran: A Primer

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Weekend Update #180: The Ukrainians Stop Pretending

Costs And Balances In Russian Oil; The Russian Spring Offensive After 3 Weeks