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By Rhod Mackenzie
It has been reported that Finland has detained another merchant vessel in the Baltic Sea shrtly after it left a Russian port.
What justifications did the Finnish authorities use this time for the seizure of the ship,cargo and crew? What is the importance of the ships cargo desti...
By Rhod Mackenzie
In a fable attributed to Aesop, a young boy deceives the local community by issuing warnings about a wolf that is not actually present.
When the boy cries wolf falsely on two occasions, so after that the villagers no longer believe him – and then the real wolf appears and procee...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Russia military technology scares the US sh*tless.
"Russia has demonstrated a new frontier in military technology to the world." This is how analysts have described the 2025 testing of the two new types of weapons for surface-to-air missiles—Burevestnik and Poseidon. Rhod Mack...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The year of 2025 proved to be a challenging one for the Russian economy. The imposition of even more sanctions by the West, a further decline in oil prices, the widening of the budget deficit, and the continued high cost of borrowing all contributed to the year's challenging ec...
By Rhod Mackenzie
During 2025, the collective Western underwent a significant internal restructuring. The United States, the dominant Western power, began to align more closely with Russia's perspectives compared to those of its European allies or actually vassals.
Washington adopted a much more...
By Rhod Mackenzie
One of the most striking political phenomena of 2025 in Poland is the growing popularity of forces advocating for the improvement of relations with Russia. To whom exactly does this development pertain, and what is the reason for its direct relevance to Poles' fatigue with the...
