Monthly Archives: February 2022

Drone Warfare in Ukraine: A Missing Link

Posted on 28 February, 2022 by alfin2101

Ukraine has been curiously successful in ambushing Russian and Chechen forces traveling in convoys. Given Russia’s clear air superiority in Ukrainian skies, it was not clear how Ukraine was achieving these limited victories against Russian forces traveling the long supply … Continue reading →

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Hundreds of 19 Year Old Russian Soldiers Captured

Posted on 27 February, 2022 by alfin2101

The captured Russian boys were allowed to call their parents back in Russia, and were they ever surprised to learn where their boys were! “We have captured around 200 Russian soldiers, some around 19 years old. Not trained at all. … Continue reading →

Posted in Russian Decline | 3 Comments

Russian Allies Fall Away; Russia Shells Civilian Kyiv

Posted on 26 February, 2022 by alfin2101

Putin’s forces are more than a match for Ukrainian forces, in the long run. But Putin wanted to destroy Zelensky’s government quickly, and quickly set up a puppet government before resistance could harden. That objective is taking Putin longer than … Continue reading →

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Russian Paratroopers Ask Ukrainian Bystanders for Directions

Posted on 25 February, 2022 by alfin2101

It is likely that most of Russia’s lost paratroopers are told to do what the Ukrainian border guards on Snake Island told the Russian warship that subsequently obliterated them: “Go Fuck Yourself.” The BBC article quotes them as saying “Go … Continue reading →

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Peter Zeihan, George Friedman Map Out Russian Invasion, Air Strikes, and Ukrainian Civilian Resistance

Posted on 24 February, 2022 by alfin2101

Ukraine is about twice as large as Texas. It is close to the size of Afghanistan, still referred to in Russia as “the graveyard of Russian boys.” Known as the breadbasket of Europe for its rich farmland, it is populated … Continue reading →

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Potemkin Russia: Putin’s Make-Believe Juggernaut

Posted on 23 February, 2022 by alfin2101

Russia cannot mass produce any of its vaunted superweapons: Not the Su-57 “stealth fighter,” not the T-14 Armata “super tank,” not the RS-28 Sarmat super-ICBM, and none of the long line of vaporware advanced weapons systems that Putin boasts of. … Continue reading →

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When Will Ukraine Take Control of Russia?

Posted on 22 February, 2022 by alfin2101

Russian President Vladimir Putin calls his armored forces “peacekeepers,” sent to protect ethnic Russians threatened by Ukrainian genocide. No one sane believes it. Putin leverages the bloody script Slobodan Milosevic’s Serbia used in the 1990s to justify invading Bosnia and … Continue reading →

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Hasn’t This Farce Gone On Long Enough?

Posted on 20 February, 2022 by alfin2101

When the Chinese novel coronavirus escaped from a Wuhan virology lab in 2019, who would have imagined the global onslaught that would result? I don’t mean the medical toll. We’ve had much worse infectious disease pandemics, including the Spanish H1N1 … Continue reading →

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Why Did Black Africans Invent Slavery?

Posted on 15 February, 2022 by alfin2101

Human slavery originated as a by-product of tribal warfare in ancient Africa. Tens of thousands of years ago in ancient Africa, tribal warfare was a way of life. The biggest problem for the conquering tribe was what to do with … Continue reading →

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Urbanization, Fertility, and Aging: Demography Primer

Posted on 14 February, 2022 by alfin2101

Urbanization contributes to decreased fertility. Decreased fertility leads to an aging population. The video below is an excellent primer on these most significant demographic trends. It is not only Japan, Russia, Italy, and Spain with shrinking populations. That trend is … Continue reading →

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A Russian Twilight: Harsh Reality vs. Putin’s Bluster

Posted on 12 February, 2022 by alfin2101

Top Soviet-Era General Tells Putin to Resign Over Ukraine [Top Soviet Era General} Ivashov’s solution: Fire Putin if he can’t be forced to resign and, if necessary, put him in prison for his “criminal policy of provoking war.”  Of course, … Continue reading →

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Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, Canadian Truckers: The Wokester’s Knives are Out

Posted on 9 February, 2022 by alfin2101

It is risky to stand out from the crowd in an age of “woke stupidity.” If independent thinkers like Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan pursue their own conspicuous programs of free speech with interesting people, the woke overlords will feel … Continue reading →

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US Numbers of New COVID Cases Crash Downward

Posted on 7 February, 2022 by alfin2101

The omicron variant of the Wuhan novel coronavirus SARS2 CoV19 spreads very quickly, accounting for the high, sharp peaks in the graphs below. But new cases also appear to be dropping quickly, leaving large numbers of recovered — who should … Continue reading →

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The Psychopath and “Cluster B” Disorders

Posted on 5 February, 2022 by alfin2101

These people live among us. They always have been and they always will. We need to understand them for our own well-being, and that of our loved ones. Psychopathy has always been part of human society; that is evident from … Continue reading →

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2000 Mules: Surveilling a Stolen Election

Posted on 3 February, 2022 by alfin2101

They stuffed the ballot boxes in the dead of night. They thought that nobody was watching. They were wrong. The documentary from D’Sousa Media will be released this spring. It consists largely of surveillance video of ballot drop boxes in … Continue reading →

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A Promising Investment in a Bleak Environment

Posted on 1 February, 2022 by alfin2101

Many investors are having difficulty seeing beyond the economic demolition program being carried out by the US Biden administration*, in order to find potentially profitable investment targets. One sector that seems to stand out is the educational technology sector. Thanks … Continue reading →

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