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The [link=(https://archive.ph/3dDdE)]archived page [/link]to get around the paywall....

Absent this year's conditions and demands, the [link=(https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/90225#:~:text=Under%20the%20first%20part%20of,from%20U.S.%20and%20EU%20sanctions)]prior grain deal[/link] allowed Russia to export it's own agricultural and fertilizer products... exempt from U.S. and EU san...

[quote]It's interesting that the WSJ put that outside of their pay wall.[/quote] There's a custom repo on [link=(https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome)]Github[/link] that emulates Google Bot (indexing) and gets behind the paywall of a number of news type sites. With Chrome, sto...

[quote]The Russian military has put itself in a no-win situation. With no intact bridges across the Dnipro, with the Kerch Bridge damage, and with Ukraine increasingly hitting pontoon bridges with HIMARS, they cannot supply their troops in the area.[/quote] Putin is a wily bastard. Drawing fr...

[quote]All of these telegram channels have been cheer leaders for Russia since the start of the war. It is the ultimate irony that the very government they have been pumping is going to throw them all in jail.[/quote] Whether the telegram channels were organic or intentionally created is irreleva...

[quote]Ukraine gave up its entire nuclear arsenal.[/quote] The common narrative is that Ukraine gave up deterrence when agreeing to give up the nuclear arsenal, when in fact they never had operational control of these weapons. The Russian's had begun removing the most mobile and usable of the ...

[quote]How do you know that punch is not coming?[/quote] One of the nagging doubts about Kherson to me is with regards to mobility. UAF use of technicals and modded out vehicles to supplement BMP's has been note worthy. In Kharkiv, they used Bushmaster's and the M113's for mobility and exploit...

[quote]I hope we start to see some real movement in the south, that offensive doesn’t seem to be progressing as much as the reporting indicates.[/quote] Though ongoing, it looks like the UAF counter attack in the South has stalled. Russian artillery pounded the UAF while staging in open terrain. ...

There are surely vulnerabilities with Russian logistics in Crimea. If the Kerch bridge can be reached, then the Kerch port and rail would obviously be targeted as well. Global Hawks and NATO AWACS over the Black Sea providing targeting and intelligence... insurgencies on the ground, etc. Rati...

The latest WOTR [link=(https://warontherocks.com/2022/09/ukraines-kharkhiv-operation-and-the-russian-militarys-black-week/)]podcast drop[/link] with Kofman and Evans and the referenced Freedman [link=(https://samf.substack.com/p/gradually-then-suddenly?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2)]substack...