In the fabulous piracy-oriented South Park of two weeks ago, a French yacht surrenders to Fatbeard the Pirate without a shot being fired. When someone brings the issue up at the UN, a bureaucrat explains "Being French, they surrendered immediately." This brought some thoughts of...
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Let's hope this doesn't happen. It seems highly unlikely, but then I can't say for sure just how far Russia would go to keep Georgia out of NATO. The idea.
I have some musings on the latest US-Russia spat at the Guardian:CIF. While doing a bit of "research" for the piece, I read the wiki entry on A Taste of.
Conscription in Russia continues to suck:The year 1991 also had a particularly low birth rate, which makes a huge peacetime draft even more of a challenge. The young men are also entering employment and working age — and families in the middle of Russia's economic...
Nothing much to see here; Chavez postures, the Russians posture, and perhaps a few lucky bomber pilots and ground crewmen get extended vacations to Venezuela. Here's the most interesting bit:Cuban.
I have an op-ed up at Comment is Free:Were Obama serious about exchanging missile defence for Russia's assistance to Iran, he wouldn't have been hinting at the elimination of the.
Part of the Bush administration's strategy for "locking in" missile defense in case of a Democratic presidential victory was to conclude agreements with Poland and the Czech Republic that would be difficult for the Democratic victor to break. The thinking went that while Obama might...
I'm not sure this is what Sergey Georgyevich Gorshkov had in mind when he green-lit the Kirov class battlecruiser: A Russian nuclear-powered cruiser has captured 10 Somali pirates in the.
My hopes for sanity between Russia and the US may have been premature:The United States will pursue a missile defense plan that has angered the Kremlin, Vice President Joseph R..
The Russian Army will begin professionalizing its non-commissioned officer corps. Via WiB.
It appears that the Bush administration's effort to diplomatically "lock in" a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic has failed:Russia has dropped plans to install missiles near.
Russian submarine launched ballistic missile tests not going well:“After its firing from the submarine Dmitry Donskoy, the Bulava missile self-liquidated and exploded into the air” - Russian MoD spokesman to.