A series of three new electric monohull commuter ferries have already begun operational sailings on the Moskva River in the Russian capital Moscow. Built by Russian shipy ..
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President Tsai Ing-wen reviews a Marine Corps battalion in Kaohsiung in July 2020. Ministry of National Defense of the People’s Republic of China
When it comes to Taiwan, the United States’ goal is to ensure Beijing understands an invasion is “never easy to do rapidly or cost-free,” the senior Pentagon official for the Indo-Pacific said Thursday.
Ely Ratner, speaking at the American Enterprise Institute, added, “what we are trying to do [is] ensure when Beijing looks at the problem, [it decides]...
https://news.usni.org/2022/12/09/pentagon-official-china-must-see-taiwan-invasion-as-costly
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The Kremlin’s disinformation campaign and massive escalation of cyber attacks on Kyiv’s infrastructure have failed to break the Ukrainians’ will to fight, the author of a recent book on Russian information warfare said Thursday.
Speaking at the United States Naval Institute event, Bilyana Lilly, geopolitical risk lead at Krebs Stamos Group, said Moscow increased its reconnaissance of potential Ukrainian targets for cyber attack a year before the Feb. 24 invasion. In the time...
https://news.usni.org/2022/09/29/russian-cyber-efforts-in-ukraine-see-muted-effects-says-panel
Up until a few weeks ago, it appeared as though the battle in Ukraine would continue into the bleak winter with neither side making any discernible headway as reported by CNN.
Recriminations in MoscowThat prognosis has changed with the sudden and successful Ukrainian offensive through most of occupied Kharkiv, which has galvanized Ukraine’s Western backers as much as it has led to recriminations in Moscow.
There are important political dynamics involved too.
The Kremlin faces tough choices:...
https://mfame.guru/winter-is-just-around-the-corner-the-ukraine-conflict-to-proceed-as-follows/
(Reuters) – Russian nuclear-powered submarines fired cruise missiles in the Arctic on Friday as part of military drills designed to test Moscow’s readiness for a possible conflict in its icy northern waters, the defense…
https://gcaptain.com/russia-conducts-military-drills-in-arctic-sea/
Russia has completely halted gas supplies to Europe via a major pipeline citing repairs, reports BBC.
Major gas pipeline shutThe Russian state-owned energy giant, Gazprom, said the restrictions on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline would...
https://mfame.guru/russia-worsens-europes-energy-crisis-with-new-gas-halt/
Aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) transits the Atlantic Ocean on Feb. 4, 2022. US Navy Photo
For the first time in recent memory, two U.S. carrier strike groups are now in the Mediterranean Sea as the Russian invasion of Ukraine has entered its seventh month, USNI News has learned.
On Thursday morning, carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77), guided-missile cruiser USS Leyte Gulf (CG-55) and guided missile destroyers USS Farragut (DDG-99) and USS Truxtun (DDG-103) passed through the...
Struggling to stay afloat in the face of crippling Western sanctions on Russia, all-cargo airline Volga-Dnepr has narrowed its scope of operation to supporting Russian supply chains’ access to Asia with only Russian-built heavy freighters.
The government of Moscow last month hired Volga-Dnepr to provide cargo transport to and from a handful of Asian and Middle Eastern nations, aboard its five Ilyushin-76TD-90 quad-engine jets, according to a statement shared with FreightWaves. The deal runs...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/russian-airline-provides-cargo-air-bridge-between-moscow-asia
U.S. Army Sgt. Keegan Davis, assigned to 4th Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, walks towards his Soldiers after laying out parts of machine guns onto the front of an M1A2 Abrams tank after conducting a live-fire accuracy screening test as part of Defender 22 at Mielno Range, Drawsko Pomorskie, Poland, May 11, 2022. U.S. Army Photo
NATO and the West must be “in the fight for the long haul” economically, diplomatically and militarily in...
https://news.usni.org/2022/05/17/u-s-nato-in-for-a-long-haul-conflict-with-russia-says-polish-pm
Moscow’s bullying tactics have turned into a full scale assault causing shockwaves across the world’s financial markets
24 February 2022
Susannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst, Hargreaves Lansdown
‘Moscow’s bullying tactics have turned into a full scale assault, with Ukraine’s worst fears materialised as Russian forces have begun a major attack on the country. This is a devastating turn of events for citizens in Ukraine who had waited in vain for a diplomatic...