Author: Michael

With Ukraine’s recent long-range drone campaign against Russia, many analysts and experts in the West are hoping that Putin will either cave under the economic pressure or be ousted from the Kremlin in a Soviet-esque coup. As fuel shortages persist throughout the country, there is a growing feeling of discontent among ordinary Russians that the Kremlin has mishandled the war.

Unfortunately, neither of these options is all that likely to occur.

Putin at a Conference 2026. Kremlin Handout Photo.

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Speaking to the London Daily Telegraph, Czech President Petr Pavel says that a clock of sorts is ticking, with Ukraine having two months to restart peace talks. If no progress is made in this direction, Russia could begin escalating the war, he says.

His calculation is based on the expectation that mid-term elections will take place in Russia on 20 September. Even in Russia’s perennially rigged electoral processes, results for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party could be somewhere between lackluster and embarrassing, according to polling numbers.

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Ukraine’s domestically designed and built missile industry has seen an incredible amount of transformation since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. Prior to the war, Kyiv had an experienced but underfunded missile sector thanks in large part to its Soviet-era design bureaus, expertise that the country has since leveraged. While some rather ambitious projects did exist, such as the Neptune anti-ship missile and the Hrim-2 ballistic missile, production was slow, available funding was limited, and other, often political, projects took priority.

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Could America Run Out of Oil Due to the War in Iran? President Donald J. Trump has apparently lost the plot when it comes to the Iran War. On the one hand, he has pushed for obtaining a ceasefire with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Of course, this was after he started an unprovoked war with Iran. What’s more, Trump has punctuated that ceasefire with declarations that he was going to annihilate the entire ancient Persian civilization and that the Iranians were “scum.

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