According to Putin, Ukraine Is Now Illegally Occupying 36,000 Km2 Which Rightfully Belong to Moscow’s Military Allies Not exactly an off ramp Marko Marjanović 23 Feb 22 1788 25
A Week Ago Russia Was Supposedly “Withdrawing”. Now It’s Pouring Large Forces Into Donetsk We suspected the "withdrawal" would be in the other direction Marko Marjanović 22 Feb 22 1386 30
So Bad It’s Good: The Flood of FSB Fakery Deserves an Oscar Fake to the bone. FSB and White Helmets should get a room together Marko Marjanović 22 Feb 22 2452 5
Tanks in the Wild: 10 Days Ago Videos Like These Were Extremely Rare — Now There’s Tons Every day Z-Day looks likelier and closer Marko Marjanović 21 Feb 22 1557 15
Russia’s Line: Kiev Regime Is Illegitimate and Doing Nothing to Fix That Marko Marjanović 21 Feb 22 1182 5
FSB Is Failing the Russian Army, State and Escalation. Big Time. Escalation not off to an amazing start Marko Marjanović 20 Feb 22 2757 24
Russia Does 1999. Behold Moscow Manufacturing a Massively Phony, CNN-Inspired Pretext for War Hey! I've seen this movie before! Marko Marjanović 18 Feb 22 1630 12
Moscow Goes Full CNN, Conjures Up Phony “Mass Graves” Supposedly From 2014 (Actually 1941) Just because it's the Russians saying it doesn't mean it's not BS Marko Marjanović 18 Feb 22 959 5
Kremlin: Ukraine Is “Highly Likely” to Attack Donbass, Also Kremlin: Attack Would Have “Serious Consequences” Marko Marjanović 17 Feb 22 1449 11
Russia’s “Withdrawal” Is Indistinguishable From Misdirection Russia has 11 Combined Arms Armies. Every single one of them has sent troops to the SW border Marko Marjanović 16 Feb 22 922 7
Biden Suddenly Discovers That Russians, Ukrainains Share “Deep Ties of Family, History, and Culture” When it's convenient for him Marko Marjanović 16 Feb 22 1255 2
Russia Backs East Med Cruisers With Naval Bombers and Kinzhal-Carrying MiG-31s Ukraine-related buildup continues Marko Marjanović 16 Feb 22 1694 7
Zelensky Judo A Brilliant Move for Ukraine to Defang Russia, Avert War If Minsk II are chains they are easy to cast off Marko Marjanović 14 Feb 22 1421 5
“If You Won’t Talk to Lavrov, You Will Talk to Shoigu” Everybody loves throwing cool phrases around until it's time to put words into action Marko Marjanović 12 Feb 22 1971 19
Oops! Turns Out Ukraine Is in the Russian Sphere of Influence After All Somebody is cutting and running Marko Marjanović 12 Feb 22 2248 11
The Only Argument Against Russian Escalation in Ukraine Is Humanitarian In every other way a Muscovite expedition against Kiev makes sense and is overdue Marko Marjanović 10 Feb 22 1168 15
In Two Months Ukraine Will Have Its Own Domestic Medium-Range Cruise Missiles Not a decisive factor but Moscow can't be happy about it either Marko Marjanović 10 Feb 22 1128 1
Ukraine: Russia Has 72 BTGs in Place and Would Need Another Month of Building Up to Strike Will hold its own military drills from February 10 to 20 Marko Marjanović 10 Feb 22 728 4
Russia’s 300K-Strong Paramilitary Police Says Holding Massive Exercise That Will See It Moved by Road, Rail and Air Nothing to see here, Russia is just holding all exercises at once Marko Marjanović 7 Feb 22 1107 5
US Intel Echoes Anti-Empire’s Estimate From 2 Weeks Ago That Russians Are 70 Percent Ready They're wrong. By now it's 80+ percent Marko Marjanović 7 Feb 22 767 5
Cannon fodder Should the US Start Sending Ukraine Suicide Vests? It would be more honest Marko Marjanović 7 Feb 22 710 3
Reminder: The West Refused to Buy Entire Ukraine for the Discount Price of €20 Billion Was never going to fight for what it didn't find worth paying 20 billion euro coins for Marko Marjanović 6 Feb 22 1292 2