Putin Is Waging a Halfway War and It’s Showing A lot is being asked of 30K troops who are being placed in unenviable positions Marko Marjanović 26 Feb 22 7005 41
Goodbye Lenin: Russia Launches Z-Day to Undo 70 Years of Communist Nation-Building in Ukraine Not "denazification", "decommunization" is the big war goal Marko Marjanović 24 Feb 22 1867 14
FSB Plumbs the Depths of Cringe and Fake Pro-Putin false flags get cringier and faker Marko Marjanović 23 Feb 22 2202 31
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 1847 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 1433 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 2927 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 1612 15
Russia’s Line: Kiev Regime Is Illegitimate and Doing Nothing to Fix That Marko Marjanović 21 Feb 22 1229 5
FSB Is Failing the Russian Army, State and Escalation. Big Time. Escalation not off to an amazing start Marko Marjanović 20 Feb 22 2881 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 1682 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 22 975 5
Kremlin: Ukraine Is “Highly Likely” to Attack Donbass, Also Kremlin: Attack Would Have “Serious Consequences” Marko Marjanović 17 Feb 22 1493 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 22 934 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 1324 2
Russia Backs East Med Cruisers With Naval Bombers and Kinzhal-Carrying MiG-31s Ukraine-related buildup continues Marko Marjanović 16 Feb 22 1718 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 1467 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 2052 19
Oops! Turns Out Ukraine Is in the Russian Sphere of Influence After All Somebody is cutting and running Marko Marjanović 12 Feb 22 2309 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 1213 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 1179 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 22 760 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 1163 5
