Vaxx-Aversion & Russia’s Biowarfare Facility Expansion
From the “what could go wrong” files: Bioweapons Facility Expansion In October 2024, the Nuclear Threat Initiative cited a Washington Post story publishing satellite images of extensive expansion work at the Sergiev Posad-6 biological facility outside of Moscow. The Soviet Union had once engineered biowarfare agents at the Sergiev Posad-6 facility. As Putin pursues Soviet…
U.S. Self-Sabotage: Aiding Russia Aids China
For most of 2025, U.S. foreign policy has slow-coded the needs of Ukrainian defense and sovereignty, advancing Russia’s military aggression and prolonging Russia’s need for, and payouts to China with oil for cash, dual use military technology, and other proxy benefits from China. Russia and China have established an axial economic and financial regime with…
To Shorten Wars and Prevent Wider War The Biden Administration Should Lift Allies’ Conventional Strike Restrictions Against Iran’s and Russia’s Conventional Military Targets
October 4, 2024 Ukraine & Israel: Ukraine and Israel face common adversaries axially aligned. Russia and China enable Iran and its terror proxies with lethal supply and know-how to wage war against Israel. Russia and China could sanction Iran but do not. Iran, China, and North Korea likewise back Russia’s increasingly genocidal war of aggression…
Strategy Essay: Zelensky’s Unmet Requests are Xi Jinping’s Political Capital for Invasion of Taiwan
Chinese leader Xi Jinping uses China’s manufacturing power to help Russia’s aggression against Ukraine not out of friendship for President Vladimir Putin, but because a Putin victory in Ukraine can help him ram through his imperial military agenda for Taiwan and the region. The U.S. and free allies, by their munitions and weapons supply to…
Defending Ukraine, Changing War with Anti-Weapon Weapons
In February 2015, we wrote about a newly conceived category of advanced weapon systems purposed or repurposed to destroy aggressor states’ conventional weapons, ammo, and war supplies while such are used for aggression, yet refining the weapons to be ever more precise to that purpose, reducing collateral damage and depopulation: “These could be relabeled “disarmament…
Reality Over Reactivity for Right Result in Deterrence and Détente
As Iran provides Russia with short range ballistic missiles to use against Ukraine, U.S. officials are reportedly mulling approval of Ukraine’s request to use longer range U.S. weapons to strike Russian targets deeper inside Russia. Asked whether Ukraine should be allowed long range strike capabilities into Russian territory with U.S.-supplied weapons, The Wall Street Journal…
Essay: Xi Jinping Gambles on Putin’s Wars. China’s Jiang Zemin & Hu Jintao Did Not Need To
President Vladimir Putin’s nearly three year slog inside sovereign Ukraine fuels mission creep for Russian forces and Chinese sponsor Xi Jinping’s substantial, yet globally interdependent, and therefore limited, instruments of power. Compared with his predecessors, Xi has become a spendthrift of Chinese good will with his international support for aggressors Russia and Iran against Ukraine…
U.S.-China Relations: Corrosive Effects of China’s National Intelligence Law
Thaw Sought: National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has wrapped-up his August visit to China to try to find grounds for resolving gridlocked issues in U.S.-Chinese relations. One of those that may not have come up is China’s economically and geopolitically destabilizing 2017 National Intelligence Law (NIL17). Problem: NIL17 requires Chinese expats and citizens to aid…
What Caspian States Can Do If Russia Tries to Misuse Treaty to Co-Opt Them for Putin’s Wars
The Set-up In the Spring of 2018, during negotiations leading to the execution of the Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea on August 12, 2018 by Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran, and Azerbaijan, the Russian Ministry of Defense took two actions to coerce the other parties: (1) the April 2018 relocation of the…
Repurposing Retired Aircraft Carriers
Advocation: Stop scrapping and start repurposing retired aircraft carriers, other warships, and utility ships with advanced weapons, technologies, and capabilities. Security and Incentivizing Ideas: Keep repurposing projects strictly shrouded in mystery for potentially adversarial forces, the press, and unreliable partners as would bleed information. Put the projects under direct military command, strict counterintelligence oversight, and…