London has been described as a city built on the spoils of empire, prompting visitors, at least over a damp weekend in March, to wonder why more of these spoils weren’t spent on proper indoor heating. And with ethical debates raging over the looted holdings of the British Museum, these same visitors might decide they […]
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Prohibition might have been a mistake for the United States, but it was an unmitigated disaster for the Russian Empire. It’s a well-known fact that Russians love their vodka. They love it so much that 25% of Russians die before the age of 55 because of it. So it seems like it might be a good idea to outlaw it, right? Wrong.
In the run-up to Russia entering the First World War, outlawing vodka seemed like the thing to do, and there was a lot of evidence that supported this conclusion.
We all know how Ukrainians have been affected at home by the Russian invasion. Over the course of more than a year, many Ukrainians, especially those in the east of the country, have been forced to flee their homes. Some have taken up arms to defend their homeland. Other are taking in refugees. Many more are experiencing their loved ones’ extended time away from home as they deploy to the front lines.
Russia and average Russians, for the most part, don’t really feel the effect of the extended war, at least not from the points of view of Russian news channels and social media.
Volodymyr Zelensky with Polish President Andrzej Duda
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On Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Warsaw and Polish President Andrzej Duda, where he asked Poland to build a coalition that will provide fighter jets to Ukraine. It was Zelensky’s first visit to Poland since Russia invaded Ukraine last February.
U-2 Plane Over Chinee Spy Balloon
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Two months after a Chinese spy balloon floated across most of the U.S. and Secretary of State Antony Blinken canceled a planned trip to China in response to the incident, Beijing is rebuffing the Secretary’s attempts to reschedule his visit.
According to a U.S. official, China has essentially frozen contact with high-level U.S. officials.
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A few weeks after former President Trump announced his bid for the 2024 presidential election and berated the Biden administration for its disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Biden White House released a report that placed the blame for the botched pullout solely on the former president.
Regardless of the fact that Biden was president at the time of the August 2021 withdrawal, and his administration was making all decisions in Afghanistan at the time that 13 U.S.
An EA-18G Growler from Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 23, located at NAS Patuxent River, conducts a flight test over southern Maryland. (US Navy)
The US Navy (USN) is moving ahead with the development of a new electronic attack (EA) capability to address shortfalls in fleet-wide requirements for airborne signal jamming operations across specific radio frequency (RF) bands.
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China deployed an aircraft carrier strike group off Taiwan’s east coast, military officials in Taipei and Tokyo confirmed Thursday.
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“If we have trust in autonomy, we can then make the move to truly artificial intelligence and in the future of the air wing.
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In the Army Climate Strategy published in 2022, the service set a major long-term goal: field fully electric tactical vehicles by 2050.