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War, what is it good for

From the we don’t do WW1 on Fallout group:

Phil is talking.

This week we have a depressing discussion about Ukraine losing the war.

Kursk is mentioned in the context of the failed Ukrainian offensive last year, something I did in March 2023.

This is a companion piece from Snell:

Not all doom

Two years in, everything is in the balance

There are lots of great articles being published looking back over the past two years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. I see no need to add to those, preferring to look forward. And the look forward is not encouraging. The war in Ukraine has become a war of attrition. In a war of attrition the key determinants of success are manpower, equi…

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a year ago · 8 likes · 2 comments · Arthur Snell

Kill ratios - by Dustin Du Cane - Fallout

I wish I was as smart as these military people or Philips O' Brien

Philip warned of war of attrition last year.

Putin's Anaconda Plan: One Year On - by Philip W Blood

Putin’s Anaconda Plan: One Year On

This week I ranted about ammunition:

Shortage of artillery shells - update - by Dustin Du Cane

Gun doesn't go boom - update

and we get Reuters reporting:

EU aims to shift European arms industry to ‘war economy mode’

and more on the pennies being dedicated to this:

EU Commission proposes 1.5 billion euro common defence industry package

Parallax Views on Wrestling’s Scum King

On this edition of Parallax Views, Vince McMahon, the former chairman and CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), was the most powerful man in all of professional wrestling (or, as he likes to call it, "sports entertainment").

Greg Olear on American traitors

PREVAIL by Greg Olear

The Russia House: Traitors on Capitol Hill

I. Vladimir the Puny Like Joseph Stalin, like Catherine the Great, like Ivan the Terrible, Vladimir Putin seeks to expand Russian territory. He models himself after Peter the Great, Russia’s most successful tsar, and also its tallest—the size of an NBA center, Peter was almost…

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a year ago · 53 likes · 4 comments · Greg Olear

Trump the Caeser Fuhrer

Unpopular Front

The Führer Next Time

Way back in 1982, Samuel Francis, a former fellow at the Heritage Foundation and legislative assistant to Senator John East of North Carolina, tried to give intellectual shape to a fractious and lumpy New Right coalition that delivered Ronald Reagan to Washington. In an essay called “Message from MARs: The Social Politics of the New Right”—MARs stands …

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a year ago · 111 likes · 22 comments · John Ganz

America’s terrible constitutional law system

Blast from the past, especially my twitter past

We should all aspire to be a mediocre samurai

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