The USSR lasted what? Seventy years? 1917-1987?

Putins Russia has only been under his control from 1999 to 2025 (under different offices, Prime minister, president…)

Putin had better get his act together, because it is beginning to look like the wheels are about to fly off.

By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Sunday, May 18, 2025 - 10:16 am: Edit

Well this is different:

Last evening, Mexican Navy sailing ship Cuauhtémoc drifted into the underside of the Brooklyn Bridge after its auxiliary engines failed, smashing masts and rigging and killing two crew members.

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Monday, May 19, 2025 - 09:57 am: Edit

Video posted today, a video clip from a Russian Television station showing train loads of Russian T-90 tanks and APC’s being shipped on flat bed rail road cars out of Crimea headed east.

The staging area in Crimea, normally full of equipment, tanks, trucks and other vehicles is now is virtually empty.

The explanation given was that other areas of the front are critically short of necessary equipment.

Could be a propaganda ploy, but if it is true, then Russia has reached the classic “Robbing Peter to pay Paul” conundrum.

It looks like there is no longer enough tanks and APC’s to fill every need for deployed units on the front lines.

By MarkSHoyle (Bolo) on Monday, May 19, 2025 - 11:04 am: Edit

Saw a similar (maybe the same), no context of where is was etc...
The equipment looked more like it belonged to an SSM Bde, Radars, C&C vehicles, several missile lauchers.....

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Monday, May 19, 2025 - 11:18 am: Edit

Just a hunch, but… could the Russians be gathering resources to be built around the brigade strength Putin Guards unit moving south from Moscow?

A sort of “Battle of the Bulge” scenario like Germany tried in December 1944?

Could they penetrate deeply enough into Ukrainian territory to render further efforts of the Ukrainian forces to resist?

If so, they would need to be ruthless in finding the man power, tanks, APCs, Artillery (not to mention the huge ammunition stockpiles that would be required to support an attack of this sort.)

This could be the set up for the last “Soviet Style” attack ever.

Grand Gesture, indeed.

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Monday, May 19, 2025 - 02:37 pm: Edit

I stand corrected:

There was a MSM report posted six days ago, said that Russia was concentrating men, tanks and artillery in the North Western part of Russia near the border with Finland.

For those who may not have noticed(like me.) that Finland has joined NATO.

Putin could just be flexing his military might, but that seem ill advised given the three years of war with Ukraine, and stripping front line combat units of vital arms, vehicle and ammunition is particularly silly given the Ukrainian willingness to occupy Russian territory.

By MarkSHoyle (Bolo) on Monday, May 19, 2025 - 03:40 pm: Edit

Caught a story/video of, supposedly, Nato equipment moving east on rail.... Vehicles (tanks, apcs, artillery) flying German, what I believe were Estonian flags....
Forward placement of units, in anticipation of a Russian move into former Warsaw pact countries....
Or maybe just a Nato training exercise, similar to REFORGER.....

Too much stuff posted without real context or timeline...

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Wednesday, May 21, 2025 - 07:59 pm: Edit

Interesting story: this was reported on fox news.
“In a shocking case that has rocked the U.S. military establishment, retired four-star Admiral Robert Burke has been convicted in the largest military bribery scandal since the infamous "Fat Leonard" case. Once the Navy's second-in-command, Burke was found guilty of directing lucrative contracts to a company that promised him a cushy $500,000-a-year job after retirement. This unprecedented conviction makes him the highest-ranking military officer in American history to be convicted of federal crimes committed while on active duty. The jury found Burke guilty on multiple counts including conspiracy to commit bribery, performing acts affecting personal financial interest, and concealing material facts from the U.S. government. This case raises serious questions about corruption within military leadership and what it means for our national security when those entrusted with protecting our country prioritize personal gain.”

By John M. Williams (Jay) on Thursday, May 22, 2025 - 02:39 pm: Edit

The NYTimes is reporting that North Korea's launch of a 5,000 ton destroyer ended disastrously. At the moment of launch, the stern slid down the slipway, but the bow did not - tearing large holes in the hull and leaving the ship on its side in the water.

Kim Jong-un was on-hand to watch the launch and is NOT happy. Sounds like a few people will be sentenced to life in front of a firing squad.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Thursday, May 22, 2025 - 07:20 pm: Edit

After the murder of two Jewish employees of the Israeli embassy, attorney general Bondi said the gunman would be prosecuted to the maximum extent. The gunman chanted “free Palestine” and “for Gaza”.

Professors and students on several university campuses praised the attack. Trump banned Harvard from accepting foreign students.

By Chuck Strong (Raider) on Thursday, May 22, 2025 - 07:30 pm: Edit

The death penalty is very much in order!

By Chuck Strong (Raider) on Thursday, May 22, 2025 - 07:34 pm: Edit

Any visa holder who praises these attacks should have their visa revoked as a threat to national security.

By MarkSHoyle (Bolo) on Thursday, May 22, 2025 - 07:51 pm: Edit

Heard they were embassy staff....
Send the gunman to Israel....

Do have to wonder, when will he turn up dead,
after which several embassy members will return to
Israel (Mossad Agents)....

Personally, have no issue with letting them do the heavy lifting on this case.....

By Chuck Strong (Raider) on Thursday, May 22, 2025 - 07:54 pm: Edit

I the gunman a US citizen?

By MarkSHoyle (Bolo) on Thursday, May 22, 2025 - 09:01 pm: Edit

I don't believe it matters....
Extradition takes care of the issue....

U.S. over the years has returned soldiers/marines to countries like Germany and Japan, when deaths have occurred....

How many Cartel Leaders has Mexico turned over in the last few years.....

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Thursday, May 22, 2025 - 09:28 pm: Edit

I don’t think we can extradite him unless he was standing on Israeli land. But I suppose if he is not a US citizen and Israel charges him, maybe, but a judge might refuse to allow it. Israel does not have the death penalty but the US does; I would guess Netanyahu would let the US execute him.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Thursday, May 22, 2025 - 09:53 pm: Edit

Foreign students amount to 27% of Harvard students.

By Ted Fay (Catwhoeatsphoto) on Thursday, May 22, 2025 - 10:51 pm: Edit

Just read a report that a brand new North Korean DD failed to launch and - according to the report - suffered catastrophic damage during the launch attempt.

It's the DPRK. Heads will roll for that. Probably literally.

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Thursday, May 22, 2025 - 11:11 pm: Edit

If Harvards 27% of the student population lose their visa’s (as has been threatened), that would blow a hole in the schools budget that you drive a fleet of buses through.

Three or four years of no foreign students would force the school to spend a chunk of their endowment funds subsidizing payroll for far left faculty…

Yeah, I guess I can’t see any problem here.

By Douglas Lampert (Dlampert) on Thursday, May 22, 2025 - 11:58 pm: Edit

The Harvard endowment is over $53 billion. Their total tuition is about $1.3 billion. Basically, if they acted like an educational institution rather than an investment firm that gets massive numbers of charitable contributions toward it's investment fund and runs a modest school on the side, then they could not bother to charge tuition at all.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, May 23, 2025 - 12:19 am: Edit

Don’t forget that Harvard gets about $650,000,000 in federal tax money every year, supposedly for research, but actually to pump money to political supports of one side.

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Friday, May 23, 2025 - 07:17 am: Edit

By Jason E. Schaff (Jschaff297061) on Friday, May 23, 2025 - 07:55 am: Edit

Correlating loss of enrollment with loss of tuition revenue isn't a straight-line process. For example, in the hard sciences most graduate students don't pay tuition. Their operations are mostly paid out of grant funds. In fact, many of them are paid _by_ their institution in the form of teaching assistantships. And yes, there is the question of how much of the "overhead" charges on research grants really pays for research support, as opposed to subsidizing other programs. Having been on that side of the fence though, I very much doubt it's as bad as some people make it out to be. The central infrastructure required to support many sorts of modern scientific research is incredibly expensive.

By MarkSHoyle (Bolo) on Friday, May 23, 2025 - 08:45 am: Edit

Have to see where the Tax Exemption goes, administration working on removing it....

By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Friday, May 23, 2025 - 09:59 am: Edit

Harvard's funding is "Real-World Military"?