Commentaries

Retired Lt. Col. Boris Sanochkin weighs in on the Israel-US war against Iran so far. This post is an adaptation of several answers on Sanochkin’s blog on Quora. What will Trump’s attacks on Iran achieve? While several objectives are at play, the main approach toward Iran appears to be following the same path as the … Read more

After four years of whining about “brutal” Russia’s “war crimes” against Ukraine, the Iran war can finely lay this nonsense to rest.

Iran is all over the news, and recent events further confirmed a thought I’ve had in the back of my mind since the retreat from Afghanistan in 2021; the US still has near-complete supremacy over the global information battlespace, even when things aren’t going well in the physical battlespace.

“Former” CIA analyst Larry Johnson tells the world that F-35s can’t do deep strikes against Iran, then F-35s do deep strikes against Iran. Is Larry Johnson controlled opposition? Maybe not, but I have never seen anyone so un-bothered by being always wrong.

Yesterday Ukraine and Russia conducted their second body exchange of the year, and the numbers were not pretty. 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers for 35 Russians (the previous exchange was 1,000 for 38). Note that the reason for there always being 1,000 Ukrainians traded is that Kiev put a cap on the number of bodies they would receive at once to avoid public embarrassment. It is not impossible they also do this to avoid bankruptcy from paying out too many death benefits at once, though rumor has it that families are forced to waive the right to death benefits before they can receive the remains. Otherwise, the soldier remains on the “missing in action” or “AWOL” lists and his remains in a freezer.

So we can assume that there are thousands upon thousands of fallen Ukrainians piling up in Russian morgues while their government is actively disinterested in their repatriation for political and PR reasons.