Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 22, 2026
Russia is filling its ranks with foreign fighters and treating them as ‘disposable soldiers’
Military Buildup In The Middle East Continues, Including What Trump Describes As A “Big Flotilla”
As a reminder, this a Chinse English language mouthpiece. Read it it with that understanding. Is Trump About to “Abandon” Taiwan, Too?
China is beating the United States in the race to control the Gulf’s driverless car market. The latest win came in October 2025 when Chinese company WeRide secured an exclusive deal with Ras Al Khaimah, the northernmost of the United Arab Emirates, to build its entire transport system around driverless cars. The sleepy emirate — preparing to become the Gulf’s Las Vegas — is betting on Chinese technology instead of traditional metros and buses.
Shadow Fleet Tanker Seizure Operations Expand In The Face Of Russian Warnings
In Upstate New York, for example, thousands of solar panels are covered in ice, snow, and sleet during winter, only generating five to 10% of their potential power. In the summer, they fare slightly better. They produce an annual average of 15-17% of total power. As the House of Green Substack explains, they survive and continue to be built in New York due to the state’s Renewable Energy Certificates, where the state pays developers for each megawatt hour of renewable electricity generated, independent of the actual sale of the electricity. The solar developer earns two to three times more from the certificate than from selling the power generated from the solar facility.
