James Holmes
Security,
The Admiral Kuznetsov is a mess.
Here's What You Need To Remember: Pentagon chieftains clung fiercely to these programs even as their woes mounted. Like Admiral Kuznetsov, each program is the only show in town for a...
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In commuting Roger Stone’s prison sentence, President Donald Trump and the White House gave a misleading account of Stone’s conviction and the federal investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.
In November, a...
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New York Times: “In interviews, Afghan and American officials and foreign diplomats with years of experience in Kabul say that what began as a diplomatic channel between Russia and the Taliban just under a decade ago has more recently...
Related topics: Taliban, Afghanistan, Kabul
Investigators of the Federal Security Service have formally charged an aide to the chief of Russia's Roskosmos space agency, journalist Ivan Safronov, with high treason.
Safronov's lawyer Ivan Pavlov said his client was indicted on July 13,...
China has rejected any prospect of joining in nuclear talks with the United States and Russia, raising fears that nuclear weapons will become a new issue of contention between Washington and Beijing. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao...
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Breaking his silence, the former special counsel rebutted President Trump’s attacks on the Russia investigation and said Mr. Stone had been prosecuted “because he committed federal crimes.”
Thomas Graham Jr., Matthew Rojansky
Security, Americas
Peaceful coexistence remains an imperative, no matter how unsavory Putin’s regime might be.
The controversy over alleged Russia bounties to the Taliban for killing American soldiers in...
Related topics: Vladimir Putin, Taliban, Afghanistan
Andrew Weissmann, an attorney who played a leading role under Robert Mueller in the investigation of Russian election interference, will release a book in September about the special counsel’s near two-year examination of links between Donald...
Related topics: Donald Trump
First Read has the “indisputable” facts on the Russia investigation:
Trump and his campaign asked for Russia’s help in the 2016 presidential race.
Trump and his campaign got that help — in a contest decided by fewer than 80,000...
Deep State Mueller, Weissman and Rosenstein all came out over the weekend to criticize President Trump’s commutation of Roger Stone which prevented Stone from going to prison. The reason they are panicking is because they all know that...
Charlie Gao
Security,
Gone are the fixed iron sights of old.
Here's What You Need To Remember: Russia is a little slow to the punch in modernizing how they can accessorize their rifles, but they’re not far behind. Moving from a Picatinny rail...
Charlie Gao
Security, Asia
Some of Beijing's best jets have Russian DNA.
Here's What You Need To Remember: China continues to acquire Russian jets, though this is largely in order to acquire technologies in the latest versions of the Flanker,...
Related topics: China, Beijing
In the Soviet Union, they would pack you off to the gulag to die of cold or starvation. But the Left has not yet consolidated power yet in the USA, as it did in Russia during the Red Terror. Instead of the gulag, we have cancel culture. Both serve...
Adam Schiff
House Intelligence Chairman and serial liar Adam Schiff on Sunday wasn’t too happy about Lindsey Graham’s move to call in Robert Mueller to testify about the sham Trump-Russia investigation.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey...
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Charlie Gao
Security, Europe
Nowadays the MiG-31 is the standard long range interceptor of the Russian Air Force (the VPVO was merged with the VVS in the 1990s) and is expected to serve into the 2030s.
Key point: Moscow is trying to future-proof...
Related topics: Drones, Moscow
Grandstaff spent 608 days in a Russian jail and three years in legal limbo on false drug charges.
China & Russia Veto Extending Syria Cross-Border Aid Routes Via Turkey
Tyler Durden
Sun, 07/12/2020 - 07:00
Authored by Jason Ditz via AntiWar.com,
Russia and China both vetoed a UN Security Council vote on Friday that was...
Related topics: China, Syria, Turkey
Mark Episkopos
History, Asia
North Korea’s defense industry was built on, and is today predominantly composed of, Soviet arms and equipment.
Here's What You Need to Remember: In the 21st century, that role has instead fallen to a People’s...
Related topics: North Korea, Military
Mark Episkopos
History, Europe
Moscow tried to build a stealth fighter but it didn't spend enough to get the job done.
Here's What You Need to Remember: The MiG-1.44’s tortured birth and still more painful death is a sterling illustration of...
Related topics: Moscow
Mark Episkopos
Security, Europe
“If tensions sharpen, the proliferation of [Tu-22M3M] bombers on the Crimean peninsula will become a nasty surprise for the US Navy.”
Here's What You Need To Remember: Russia is working to upgrade...
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