Putin’s only response to this is dubious assurances that he can set things right. He can’t and chaos looms along with growing corruption and demands for a new government. While Putin won a 2023 ...

December 12, 2024: If you go to war, your chances of success are enhanced if you have better weapons than your opponents and your troops are better trained to use what they have. There are ways to ...

The Rocket Force has 120,000 personnel and operates nuclear and conventionally armed strategic missiles. China is believed to have between 300 and 500 nuclear warheads. The Rocket Force maintains ...

The factions spill across current borders, which date from the Ottomans' post-WWI collapse (with a few later 20th-century rearrangements). For example, Turkey sees Syrian Kurds as allies of the ...

Despite their realities, in 2019 the Russian parliament passed a Sovereign Internet law that created an Internet infrastructure that restricted Internet use within Russia by confining most Internet ...

This is where the Nakhimov and two or three of its sister ships are based. The shipyards are currently preparing the Nakhimov for a return to service by 2026. That may be optimistic because repairs ...

While Russia had some long-range bombers at the start of the war, Ukraine soon developed longer range drones. Russia is running out its elderly bombers, because of sanctions is unable to make any more ...

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The Russian space program has been in decline since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 and the decline accelerated after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. This has not discouraged Russia from trying to ...

Despite the importance of the railroads, the Russian military will grab any military age railway workers it can and turn them into soldiers for the Ukraine conflict. The government also uses fake ads ...

For example, some American soldiers returning from Iraq with undiagnosed health problems blamed it on depleted uranium metal, which is used in the 30mm cannon carried by the A-10 aircraft, 25mm shells ...