Our Brilliant Empire Putin May Not Have a Soul, but There Is Every Reason to Suspect Joe Biden Doesn’t Have a Brain "One Russian saying posits that while one can still negotiate with scoundrels, one cannot negotiate with idiots" Andrei Martyanov 18 Mar 21 2673 8
Ukraine Plots the Return of Crimea After the US Provides It With 84 Inflatable Boats Strategic balance on the Black Sea threatened after the US donation of inflatables Andrei Martyanov 8 Mar 21 1458 10
Those Pesky Russians Russia’s Zircon Missile Relegates Carriers to Bombing Small Poor Countries Pesky Russians went and built a Mach 8 anti-ship missile. "There is no technological solution for stopping this type of weapon in the US currently — the ramifications are colossal" Andrei Martyanov 4 Feb 21 3651 26
Our Benevolent Empire The US Is Not Agreement Capable Because It Is Ungovernable The presidents and the administrations are not in charge. The permanent regime is Andrei Martyanov 16 Nov 20 1050 4
Those Pesky Sino-Russians Russia and China: Looking an Awful Lot Like an Alliance The Chinese can't wait for the next drill Andrei Martyanov 12 Sep 20 1102 19
Yeah, the Russians Have Carrier-Killing Missiles, but Can They Actually Hit the Ships? (Answer: Yes) Turns out the Russians did not just build missiles and forgot about targeting Andrei Martyanov 18 Jun 20 1767 5
Turkey Close to Agreement on Su-35 Fighter Jet Purchase From Russia — Turkish Media Exit F-35, enter Su-35 Andrei Martyanov 26 Oct 19 5707 4
Those Pesky Sino-Russians As Much as the Western Political Class Is Loathe to Admit It Russia-China Is an Alliance, and an Alliance of Equals In fact so far it is Russia which has been dramatically boosting China's power than the other way around Andrei Martyanov 10 Oct 19 1229 6
RuSsIa DoEsN'T MaKe AnYtHiNg $14.5 Billion in Weapons India Has on Order From Russia Could Be Just the Start For one thing its $8 billion order for 36 French Rafale fighters doesn't make sense when China could have 24 Su-35s for $2.5 billion Andrei Martyanov 5 Sep 19 1537 1
US Can’t Let S-400 Armed Turkey Have F-35s Because It Would Expose How Easy They Are to Kill The only 'security concern' of the US in Turkey having S-400 and F-35 both was in that it would expose how easily the former detects and tracks the latter Andrei Martyanov 13 Jul 19 1649 7
Russia Tells Bolton Iran Is Russia’s Ally, Unacceptable to Compare It to Terrorists Patrushev did not meet with Americans and the Israelis to 'sell out' Iran but to warn hands off Andrei Martyanov 26 Jun 19 2561 6
Hmmh, Something Is Missing Here…What Could It Be? "I can't quite put my finger on it" Andrei Martyanov 24 May 19 1120 5
Russian Navy to Anchor Its Power on Missile Mosquito Boats They come in at under 1000 tons, but have the weapons range of an aircraft carrier Andrei Martyanov 19 May 19 3079 9
Invincible Empire Watch as US Now Tries to Reign in Russia’s Game-Changing Strategic Weapons With Arms Control Treaties Why is the treaty-ending Trump admin suddenly talking up arms control? Take a lucky guess Andrei Martyanov 16 May 19 1927 11
Adventures in Trumpia Pompeo to Meet Putin but Since the US Is No Longer Agreement Capable What Is Even the Point? Kremlin will politely hear Pompeo out but Moscow understands it's dealing with people with a faint touch with reality Andrei Martyanov 13 May 19 1446 13
US Sanctions on Russia’s Civil Aviation Are Laughable and Destined to Fail Only a matter of time until Russia, which produces enormously sophisticated avionics and engines for its military aviation, develops simpler counterparts for the civilian sector as well Andrei Martyanov 25 Apr 19 1317 2
Those Pesky Russians MC-21 Airliner Receives First Russian-Built Engines to Replace Sanctioned US-Made Pratt & Whitneys Russians never required US engines to build an airliner, they just opted for what foreign airlines were already used to Andrei Martyanov 22 Apr 19 12662 16
Turkey Confirms Interest in Russian Su-34, Su-57 If US Denies It the F-35 If this is trolling it's world-class Andrei Martyanov 11 Apr 19 768 1
The US Idea the Russians Need Turkey to Figure Out How to Shoot Down a F-35 Is Beyond Silly The Russians have their own stealth tech they can test their radars on Andrei Martyanov 2 Apr 19 2061 5
The First Tenent of Monroe Doctrine Was That US Would Not Interfere in European Affairs Conveniently forgotten by Bolton, Pompeo and Trump Andrei Martyanov 28 Mar 19 440 0
Is Putin’s Warning He’ll Park Russian Subs With Hypersonics off the US Coast Credible? If so, why have Russian subs been using the 'bastion' strategy so far? Andrei Martyanov 15 Mar 19 812 0
Why US Sanctions on Russia’s Civil Aviation Are Laughable and Destined to Fail It is only a matter of time until Russia, which produces enormously sophisticated avionics and engines for its military aviation, develops simpler counterparts for the civilian sector as well Andrei Martyanov 15 Oct 18 1339 2
Russia Is Covering the Upcoming Syrian Final Offensive With Far More Than Just 25 Warships Russia's naval task force off the coast of Syria has no chance against the US Navy on its own. That's why it's backed up by far more Andrei Martyanov 5 Sep 18 3300 1
