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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 1, 2025

A Russian Soyuz launch mishap late last week left the country without a manned space program until vital launch infrastructure can be replaced or repaired.

Trump Confirms Phone Call With Maduro

Health Care Sticker Shock Coming for 450,000 New Yorkers

Renewable Developers Press Hochul to Settle Tax Dispute Before Key Deadline

Campbell Soup at Risk of Being ‘Shut Down’ in Florida After Secret Audio

Engine Teardown Specialist Says Toyota’s Explanation for V6 Failures Doesn’t Make Sense

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 30, 2025

IDF Eliminates Son of Senior Hamas Leader, Who Attacked Troops Across Ceasefire Line. Hamas leader Ghazi Hamad vowed to launch “a second, a third, a fourth” October 7-style massacre until Israel is “annihilated.”

Death In the Street: Aside From the Obvious, There’s a Big Problem In Cuba

Blunderbusses, Pilgrims, and How Art Rewrote History

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 29, 2025

Hezbollah Chief Threatens Israel After Top Commander Killed in Beirut Strike

Vital Khor Mor gas field attacked in Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq

Pakistan’s social media has been abuzz for the past two days with conflicting reports about former Prime Minister Imran Khan.

“Intense Solar Radiation” Corrupted A320 Flight Systems, Airbus Rushes Emergency Update

Study anchors obscure pharaoh in time, opening research path into dating the Exodus

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Ukrainian anti-corruption agents search home of Zelensky’s chief of staff Andriy Yermak

Indeed, the available evidence that has emerged since the mutiny suggests that, back in November 1975, only a few minutes may have stood between the Soviet Navy launching a nuclear strike against one of its own vessels. Ultimately, perhaps, Colonel Arkhip Savinkov, as commander of what appears to have been a nuclear-armed Tu-16, might have been the one responsible for preventing what could have been a catastrophe. Ironically, the fact that he didn’t launch his missile, for whatever reason, meant that he would be viewed with suspicion by the Soviet military leadership for the rest of his career.

Airbus grounds 6,000 planes for urgent software update after jet suddenly lost altitude mid-flight

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 24, 2025

Chinese researchers simulate large-scale electronic warfare against Elon Musk’s Starlink. Findings suggest jamming Starlink across area matching Taiwan is technically feasible, but only at huge scale needing 1,000 drones or more.

A story from early this year that I recently came across: ‘I learnt to fire an RPG with YouTube’: How one Sudanese village fought the RSF

Britain’s Plan to Abolish Most Jury Trials

Should the Feds Bail Out Chicago?

Every so often, a scientific claim becomes so widely repeated that it hardens into “fact,” even when the evidence beneath it consists of… well… let’s just call it creative meteorology

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 23, 2025

New Twist In Effort To End The War In Ukraine

Japanese Automakers Invest Billions in India’s Auto Market

U.S. Pressure Campaign Against Venezuela Has Entered A New Phase

Trump Set To Propose Framework To Halt “Surprise” Obamacare Price Hikes

Are U.S. Crop Yields Declining?

Future War Will Be Fought with Sticks and Stones