Saker Analyses and Interviews

In this post, I will be very short. First, the Ukrainian military used a Tochka-U missile to strike at a Nazi deathsquad near Mariupol.  Read all the details here on

Since it is too early to comment upon the military events of the day, that info comes with delay, I wanted to mention a few things about the politics of

So we are a week in and I think it is time to take short pause and see what happened over the last 7 days. The Russian attack began, as

Dear friends, Here is a quick update.  First, a (provisional) map (which is typically 6 hours late or so): I think that this map is self-explanatory, especially since the only

First, let’s begin with a pretty decent map of the situation today: Here is a small commentary on what we see in this map: In red the most recent Russian

This question was asked by some pressitute while Biden was walking to his helicopter today: Mr President, is Ukraine winning the war? Wow, just wow.  Either she fully believes it,

My dear TV western armchair generals, I get it, I promise.  I really do! Your entire life you have been trained to see a successful military operations like so: Begin

First, a hodgepodge sample of the kind of recent news: (sorry for the chaotic presentation, I am going this all under time pressure) The International Chess Federation (FIDE) wants to

Dear friends, A couple of things. First, my post yesterday about my utter disgust with the West’s attitude resulted in well over FOUR HUNDRED comments overnight.  And an avalanche of

I warned my readers but alas, many ignored my warning. So all day I was flooded with stupid questions asking me to respond to western PYSOP fakes.  And I have