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More than two years into the war in Ukraine and the Russian Federation is working to keep its recruiting up to replace casualties on the front lines. And now it’s taking a new tactic. A new recruiting ad released this past week by the Russian Ministry of Defense is asking Russians “What are our men made of?” Are they live streamers with cars and banana smoothies or are they soldiers in the field? 
No, seriously. Watch it for yourself.

“What are you made of?”
New Russian MoD recruitment propaganda video just dropped. pic.twitter.

L Todd Wood interviews Commander Salamander on the shrinking U.S. Navy.
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An airman with the 8th Maintenance Group died this week on base at Kunsan Air Base in South Korea.
On Friday, the Air Force’s 8th Fighter Wing, based out of Kunsan, announced that Tech. Sgt. Jacob Venegas was found dead inside a dormitory on Wed., Aug. 28. The Air Force did not share any additional details around Venegas’ death, but did say it is under investigation. 
“We are devastated by the loss of Tech. Sgt. Venegas, and we extend our deepest condolences to his family, friends, and all who knew him as they navigate this difficult time,” Col.

American and Iraqi forces killed more than a dozen ISIS fighters in a raid this week targeting leaders of the terrorist group. The operation, done early in the morning on Aug. 29, killed 15 ISIS fighters, according to U.S. Central Command, but seven American service members were injured as well, according to reports. 
The operation was done in western Iraq, according to CENTCOM, and the joint American and Iraqi force took on ISIS fighters armed with “numerous weapons, grenades, and explosive ‘suicide’ belts,” although the U.S. did not say how many total ISIS fighters were engaged.

Time will tell whether the Invasion of Kursk will be a masterstroke, a blunder or a wash. But some of Ukraine’s international boosters, especially in the United Kingdom and Lithuania, are warning that the West is hamstringing Ukraine through delivery delays and weapons restrictions.
Ukraine is reportedly digging into Russia, selecting which territory it will hold in Kursk and which it will give up as undefendable since its advance has largely stalled. And its use of forces to invade Russia, instead of reinforcing defenses in the east, has allowed Russia to push a salient toward Pokrovsk.

James Halpin, The Sun VLADIMIR Putin could be put behind bars as the brazen tyrant is set to visit a country that has signed up to arrest him.

Nemtsova, Daily Beast What next for Vladimir Putin? Or, maybe, where next?

Doug Bandow, The American Conservative Taiwan is profoundly important to China, but less so to the U.S.

Friedman, Geopolitical Futures Small things can reveal much larger geopolitical truths. Such is the case of a recent meeting of the U.S.-China financial working group.

John J. Waters, RealClearDefense
“The Americans trained me,” Sadat says early in the film. “I just don’t believe that the Americans are going to retrograde.” But U.S.