The Reading Junkie

I'm seeing a huge amount of hysteria surrounding the recent developments from Ukraine this week. "Pro-Ukraine" commentators are smug, many "Pro-Russia...

There’s been a huge amount of hype about the Ukrainian Summer (Autumn?) counteroffensive, and it looks like something finally happened. Sort of. The...

Earlier this month an employee at “NewsGuard,” a self-appointed fact-checking watchdog, accused me of spreading false information. On the surface,...

Last Saturday I attended Russia’s "International Military-Technical Forum Army-2022" in Moscow Region, a week-long public display and trade show in...

Why, God? Why? What prompts someone to write a 95,000+ word essay series and distribute it freely? By definition, a freely distributed essay offers li...

Chinese Freedom: Creativity, Choice, and Innovation in a Closed State and a Global Economy The American impulse in times of change is generally expans...

Fools’ Errands, Objectives, and Oversized Glasses There is a certain hopeful foolishness in any program to make the world a less awful place. Just a...

A Russian disinformation expert from a "Russian-Ukraine Disinformation Tracking Center" is reviewing the site for, ahem, disinformation. It's been an ...

In a previous post, I suggested the Ukraine information war is not a conspiracy, and this might be the most controversial thing I ever said. So today,...

Here's a question I frequently see asked on social media. “If Ukraine now sends 100,000 troops in to attack Russia's Kursk and Bryansk, Russia will ...

Some Russian media outlets claim that HIMARS launchers operating in Donbass are secretly being led, operated, and guarded by NATO servicemen. Are thes...

In light of present and recent circumstances—the ongoing war in Ukraine, the decades-long expansion of NATO, and the many claims of Russian interfer...