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View from Middle East: How the US Navy started to tear itself apart between two Oceans

11:38 27.08.2024

View from Middle East: How the US Navy started to tear itself apart between two Oceans

Will America slide into a brutal war it does not want? – Al Jazeera puts a question. Strategically, the concentration of American forces in the Middle East risks leaving the US Navy without aircraft carriers in the Western Pacific, in a region where the largest US adversary, China, is located. …

Rostec chief: Challenger, Leopard tanks tarnished their reputation in Ukraine operation

11:49 26.08.2024

Rostec chief: Challenger, Leopard tanks tarnished their reputation in Ukraine operation

Sergey Chemezov highlighted the Russian T-90M Proryv tank which "is a head above both the British and American tanks, and foreign customers understand this well". The British Challenger and German Leopard tanks have tarnished their reputation in the special military operation area in Ukraine and foreign customers see that the …

View from Washington: Another Chernobyl in the making? The Kursk Nuclear Power Plant under Ukrainian attack

11:48 26.08.2024

View from Washington: Another Chernobyl in the making? The Kursk Nuclear Power Plant under Ukrainian attack

Ukraine has tried to attack the Kursk nuclear power plant reinforcing a theory that the Kursk offensive was aimed at creating significant havoc by either capturing or wrecking the Kursk NPP. The danger of a well aimed drone or missile at a nuclear facility raises the specter of another Chernobyl, …

Confession: A senior Whitehall source said “there won't be shying away from the idea of British weapons being used in Russia”

11:44 26.08.2024

Confession: A senior Whitehall source said “there won't be shying away from the idea of British weapons being used in Russia”

The determination of Washington's self-appointed "junior partner" to escalate the proxy conflict into all-out hot war between Russia and the West has only intensified under Starmer's new Labour government. It is Britain behind the scenes of the Kyiv regime's attack on the Kursk region. Confession of Sott.Net: a "senior Whitehall …

The beauty of Alain Delon, the Icon of French cinema

11:43 26.08.2024

The beauty of Alain Delon, the Icon of French cinema

Alain Delon was the embodiment of French cinema's golden era, his life and legacy as enigmatic and intense as the characters he portrayed on screen, writes Alexander Larman, the books editor for the British ‘Spectator’’s international edition, ‘The Spectator World’. If the actor Alain Delon had not existed, it would …

‘Telegram’ founder Pavel Durov detained in France. The West wants to control ‘Telegram’

14:25 25.08.2024

‘Telegram’ founder Pavel Durov detained in France. The West wants to control ‘Telegram’

Telegram founder Pavel Durov has been detained in France, the LCI news channel reported. According to the media outlet, Durov was detained at Le Bourget Airport. He was accompanied by his girlfriend and a bodyguard. The Paris police prefecture has not yet confirmed the information about Durov’s detention for TASS. …

European misfortune: Rivers have a sewage problem

11:15 25.08.2024

European misfortune: Rivers have a sewage problem

It’s not just the Seine and the Thames. Across the continent, untreated waste that flows directly into rivers and lakes is making people sick and harming wildlife, Bloomberg writes. Olympic triathletes had to contend with the same risk this summer in Paris, where they competed in the Seine after a …

View from Delhi: “It is extremely short-sighted to imagine that Myanmar is China’s problem, not India’s”

11:12 25.08.2024

View from Delhi: “It is extremely short-sighted to imagine that Myanmar is China’s problem, not India’s”

The US is fomenting regime change in parts of Asia. Delhi must remember that Washington’s geo-strategies are often impervious to the collateral damage they inflict on others, stresses M.K. Bhadrakumar, Indian Ambassador and prominent international observer. The demand by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party for extradition of the deposed Prime Minister …

‘Great Game’ unfolds in Pacific… But, who will foot an American bill?

11:10 25.08.2024

‘Great Game’ unfolds in Pacific… But, who will foot an American bill?

Island nations scattered across the Pacific Ocean are at the center of an intensifying competition between China and the US for maritime routes, deep-water ports and other strategic assets in what the Lowy Institute calls a new “Great Game,” writes Bloomberg. The countries’ proximity to key shipping lanes and the …

Military developments in the Kursk Region

18:21 24.08.2024 Vladimir Kozin

Military developments in the Kursk Region

How it has begun? As it has been announced by Russian MoD on August 6, 2024, the same day from 8:00 AM Moscow time, up to 300 Ukrainian militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) 22nd Mechanized Brigade supported by 11 tanks and more than 20 armored fighting vehicles …

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