NATO Leader Did Promise not to Expand – Here's the Proof in His Own Words
Thanks to Fort Rus for finding this.A speech given by NATO Secretary General Manfred Wörner on 17 May 1990 is still available on the NATO website here. And so is its contradiction here. NATO has to do...
View ArticleUS Military Afraid It Can't Fight Russia
Do you suppose people at the Pentagon read RI? I don't mean read it in the sense that they have to know the Sewage Emitted by the Vast Army of Putin Trolls so they can Counter it with the Clear Water...
View ArticleHas the US Intelligence Establishment Turned Against the Administration?
Based on my experience with it, I am not a big fan of the American intelligence establishment as I wrote here. I saw too much obsession with personalities, compartmentalization, confidence in mere...
View ArticleAre Moscow's Smart Weapons an Unintended Gift From NATO?
I put together the following based on conversations with people in NATO at the time of the Kosovo war. Makes an interesting theory I think.Despite nonsense from frustrated neocons, it's clear that...
View ArticleWhy Russia Runs Rings Around the USA
Despite its "failing economy", "isolation", "ancient weapons", "instability" and all the other tired (and ageless: Russia was "failing" in 2005 and in 2000) tropes, time and time again, Moscow...
View ArticleThe End of the US Empire – Live on Video!
Watch this exchange at the recent Senate Hearings on US strategy in Syria between Senator Lindsey Graham, Defense Secretary Carter and Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Durnford. Graham grills the...
View ArticleTwo Centuries of Russian Surprises – Why Are We Surprised?
The USA/NATO has been surprised – or is stunned a better word? – by the Russian operation in Syria. The fact that it intervened; the speed with which it did it; the secrecy with which it did it; the...
View ArticleThese Suggestions Won't Fix "Broken" US Intelligence on Russia
Mark Galeotti has just written a piece with helpful suggestions to Washington on how it can be less surprised by what Russia does: "And, let's be honest, Washington has been caught by surprise again...
View ArticleBigger Than Big, Maybe Even Huger Than Huge
When I heard of the Paris atrocities I thought: Oh no, here we go again. Fake sincerity, prayers "going out", "attack on values", "stand together", flag overlays on Facebook, mounds of flowers, op-ed...
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NATO Would Probably Lose a War Against Russia
Shellback is the pseudonym of someone who started working for a NATO military structure in the Brezhnev years. He does not think that the Cold War was so much fun that we should try to repeat...
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