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…
In the News: Observations & Analyses
Ukraine: AP reported President Volodymyr Zelensky’s words at a ceremony commemorating the massacre at Babyn Yar in Kyiv of nearly 34,000 Jews during 48 hours in the 1941 Nazi occupation: “Babyn Yar is vivid proof of the atrocities that regimes are capable of when led by leaders who rely on intimidation and violence. At any…
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…
Supporting a High Yield Presence in the Kursk Region
From inside Russia, Ukraine’s Kursk Raiders have fused guerrilla warfare, blitz, and entrenchment tactics to extend Ukraine’s range and divide Russian resources. As the Raiders live off the land and turn Russian resources against Russian military and intelligence forces, defense contact group supporters should help them accomplish their defense mission and make it home alive…
Georgia and Armenia Ally with Ukraine, Others Follow
That should be a headline going forward. There’s still time. Truth: Those who cave to Moscow today will soon become its conscripts tomorrow, thrown into wars they sought to avoid. Secret police states don’t govern well and the Soviet Union proved it, collapsing on itself. The Putin persona is a trained product of that failed…
On People Leadership Ukraine’s Zelensky Has Earned Mantle as De Facto Leader of Eastern Slavs
Eastern Slavs, generally include Ukrainians, Russians, and Byelorussians yet it is Russia’s ruler today that uniquely implies Russia owns the highest tier of a presumed Eastern Slavic caste system with the right to dominate the others. Present day leader of Belarus, Alexandr Lukashenka is submissive to Putin and has acquiesced to Putin’s domination. Having based…