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Iran’s response to Israel attacking its embassy and killing an Iranian general and various other Iranian military personnel took place last night. Depending on various sources, ~200 drones and 20–30 ballistic missiles were used. While the Israeli side exaggerates the drones and missiles it shot down and the Iranian side exaggerates the hits, the videos … Read more
Just, until a year ago, the US economy relied on a very specific paradigm. Taking advantage of the international reserve currency status of the dollar, it ran on a cash-aflush economy into which high amounts of dollars kept entering through mechanisms like the Federal Reserve and the fractional reserve lending of private banks. This setup … Read more
In 10 years, the last cadre of statesmen, military personnel, and bureaucrats who were educated up in the last period of the Soviet Union would have either passed away or become too old to get involved in anything. Meanwhile, an entire generation who neither knew the Soviet Union nor the difficult Yeltsin years would have … Read more
We see the word appeasement being used in dealings of British government with Nazi Germany, and we are told that this was a ‘mistake’ which helped Nazis to eventually do what they did. But… When we look into the actual chronology of events, actual statements, dealings in between countries and resulting geopolitical changes, the picture … Read more