Today's science lesson ladies and gents is that landing a spacecraft on another celestial body is a very difficult thing to do.  Even on the one closest to us.  Our Moon.  When a country pulls it off it's a...
Once feared Russian dictator Vladmir Putin has had a bad week.  He's not winning the war in Ukraine which means he's losing.  South Africa has remained in his corner and initially was prepared to ignore a warrant from the...
Back in 1956 Nikita Khrushchev famously opined, "We will take you over without firing a shot. We will defeat you from within." If you listen to Matt Gaetz talking on Newsmax, and all the drivel that comes out of...
Russia's economy has been hurting worse than we know.  It's been sliding down the slope and about to go over the cliff.  Don't believe me?  Take a look at this this analysis of their nearly depleted cash surplus.  I...
Going to war when you don't have to tends to not work out well for the leaders of countries (and often their entire countries) who choose to start a war.  It's one thing to respond to an attack of...
Just a quick post, I thought this should be up as soon as possible. The Russian version of our Secret service, The Federal Protection Service (FSO), thwarted an assassination attempt on President Vladimir Putin today, and it was not some...
To the surprise of exactly no one a "shakeup" in the Russian Military has begun.  "Reassignments", demotions and arrests.  And no doubt already summary executions of officers and some of their subordinates who were stationed along the route of...
When it comes to the (so far) failed coup in Russia we have learned a little more.  Little.  There's still plenty, and all of it important that we don't know but I'll get to that shortly. Here's what we know...
Yevgeny Prigozhin became famous for being "Putin's Chef."  Somehow the former convict got into the right places at the right time and known to Putin.  He got rich beyond dreams with a batch of Kremlin contracts - for food. ...
Ian Bremmer is a Stanford educated political scientist and the founder of the Eurasia Group, a political risk management consulting firm that specializes in that part of the world where Saturday’s tempest in a teapot semi-revolt by The Wagner...

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