by Dave Patterson | Nov 6, 2023 | Articles, Good Reads, Military Affairs, Opinion
The infamous Wagner Group, a private military company from Russia, has become Vladimir Putin’s proxy in Lebanon and an open threat to Israel. The mercenary force, which has been ubiquitous in failed and conflict-ridden nations, has now directly inserted itself in what...
by Dave Patterson | Oct 28, 2023 | Articles, Good Reads, Military Affairs, Opinion
Russian President Vladimir Putin, talking to religious leaders, threatened a spread of hostilities if Israel’s bombing of Gaza didn’t stop. The irony of Putin’s statements, however, seemed to go unnoticed. While the Russian president was speaking,...
by Dave Patterson | Oct 21, 2023 | Articles, Military Affairs, Opinion
It wasn’t frontpage news when Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Xi Jinping of China met in Beijing on Wednesday, October 18. The world was absorbed with Hamas murderers having brutally attacked Israel in a fashion where only words like inhuman and monstrous...
by Dave Patterson | Aug 24, 2023 | Articles, Good Reads, Military Affairs, Opinion
Early reports from a Wagner Group social media post and unconfirmed statements from the Russian state news service TASS announced that the founder of the private military company, Yevgeny Prigozhin, was aboard a private jet that crashed north of Moscow. The Embraer...
by Dave Patterson | Aug 21, 2023 | Articles, Good Reads, International, Opinion
What was reported as a race with India to achieve a soft landing on the moon at the southern pole ended for Russia as its Luna-25 moon lander crashed on the lunar surface. The launch of the powerful Soyus-2.1b Fregat rocket carrying the Luna-25 lifted off from the...
