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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
It was supposed to be simple – the US was going to apply the Afghanistan playbook in Ukraine against Russia. It was going to bog it down in a low-level conflict that would starve it of money and resources. It would strain the Russian society and it would put economic and political pressure on the … 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