The coming collapse of Russia 囚: Purges & freEbooks
free ebooks at the end of this post Monday only
Russia: Purge and counter-purge continues & intensifies.
Kremlin tries to purge corrupt cops: quickly discovers all the Russian police are corrupt. “A series of raids on police stations by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) over the last week made it clear that the Kremlin has ordered a crackdown on its own police. The nation’s law enforcement and security services have been turned against each other.”
Prigozhin says Wagner Group may soon cease to exist, as it’s running out of Wagnerites
Russin Navy decrepit, China laughing, leader purged. I’m not a supporter of Navalny, he wouldn’t do much different, closer to Zhirinovsky than Gorbachev; but anything for a crib: NAVY NAVALNY NAVAL NY NEW YORK good hunting.
Putin-faces-threat of military-mutiny (Girkin agrees with me again!)
Desperate-Putins-last-chance-for-a-reboot
fuel-tank-ablaze-Sevastopol-drone-attack
Sanctions constrict Russia’s economy, hampering its war effort.
Russia-secret-plans-Belarus-Baltics-Putin GLWT…
Ukrainian army needs ammunition.
Ukrainian Air Defence: Field Testing Iron Dome, ABM, Chickenwire.
Saving Children, seeeking peace.
Audio: work on your English listening comprehension & rest your eyes with The Economist’s Russia Podcast: “Next Year in Moscow”
Opponent Modelling: Some countries start and then fight wars, expecting to lose the war, in order to win aspects the peace that follows. This may seem like a horrible strategy but in the face of overmatch it is in fact rational! Refined political strategies in combination with horrible military strategies can achieve their goals, but at a hellish cost in one’s own forces, which may be desired e.g. by a dictatorship which distrusts and wants to rebuild its own military. Your opponent very likely does not see the world as you do so quit assuming they think like you. Get inside their head, see it from their perspective this is one of the reasons you must become fluent in your adversary’s language: then you understand them, their world-view, and can better predict their actions and reactions. Know your enemy.
CIA-and-NSA-spies-are-losing-their-edge-to-China-and-Russia
“Traitors and collaborators. Who helped Hitler?”
“Why did neighbors joyously exterminate Jews and expropriate?”
IRAN
Iran-poisonings-schools-protests-girls
Iran-says-were-no-school poisonings. Well that settles it then! Problem solved, after all everyone else is lying and you can only trust the religious people
Clerical Assassination in Iran
Suspected Islamic State chief Qurayshi killed in Syria, Turkey says
I did it. I totally did it. I would do it again. It made my Mom so fucking proud.
Far be it from me to say “target lock.”
Argentina-s-collapsing-peso-signals-more-pain-to-come
Escalation dominance.
守岁
One day the war will end:
and then what?
国际劳动节快乐
Free eBooks today only:
Write a customer review of Pictogram Palace here
Peter Zeihan is Wrong: Here’s Why
To improve your memorya: self-test whatever you have learned. Review each day at the end of the day.
https://news.yahoo.com/one-putin-biggest-mistakes-finally-002749829.html
Got the link wrong. Purge early purge often PURGE THEM BEFORE THEY PURGE YOU
)