This article was written for the Unz Review Late this morning, outraged emails started pouring in. My correspondents reported “getting sick” and having their “heart ache”. The cause of all that? They had just watched Trump’s speech at the UN. I ...
Read More »Russian Pantsir-S Goes Hunting In Syrian Skies
While the S-400 has captured the headlines, in part because the maps showing the system’s impressive engagement radius make good copy, in actuality the S-400 is the tip of the iceberg that is the integrated, multi-layer, air defense network that ...
Read More »The Lucy Stein Gang Rides Into Moscow
by Israel Shamir for the Unz Review Can the Putin Fans League win municipal elections in New York City? Not bloody likely, you’ll murmur, and probably justifiably so. However, in the municipal elections last week, pro-American forces captured one third of ...
Read More »Syrian War Report – September 18, 2017: Syrian Army Crossed Euphrates River
The Syrian Arab Army (SAA), Hezbollah, the Iraqi Army and the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) are preparing for a joint advance on the ISIS border strongholds of al-Bukamal and al-Qaim. On Saturday, the Iraqi Army and the PMU launched an ...
Read More »Letter to my American friends – The Saker
Introduction by the Saker: During my recent hurricane-induced evacuation from Florida, I had the pleasure to see some good friends of mine (White Russian emigrés and American Jews who now consider themselves American and who fully buy into the official ...
Read More »Afghanistan War Report – September 16, 2017: Taliban Attacks NATO Convoy
On Friday, a Taliban suicide bomber driving a car bomb slammed into a convoy of NATO forces near Kandahar Airbase in Trank Pul area of Kandahar province. Kandahar provincial governor spokesperson, Fazal Bari Baryalai, said the attack “totally destroyed” one ...
Read More »China’s Maritime Strategic Realignment
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Read More »Hezbollah declares victory over Deash terrorists in Syria
Syrian War Report – September 14, 2017: Syrian Army Clearing Eastern Homs Pocket From ISIS
Voiceover by Harold Hoover The Syrian Arab Army (SAA), the National Defense Forces (NDF), and the Qalamoun Shield Forces (QSF) have liberated the villages of Um Rujm, ‘Amudiyah, Rasm Sawwanah, Unq al-Hawa, Khan, Luwaybidah, and Darwishiyah from ISIS in the ...
Read More »Syrian War Report – September 13, 2017: Army Prepares To Cross Euphrates River
Hezbollah declared a victory in Syria as the Russian Defense Ministry announced that pro-government forces have liberated 85% of the country from militants. “We have won in the war [in Syria],” Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Tuesday, according ...
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