Tag Archives: Russia

Alaska

From Christopher Armitage List of Actions of Trump administration since Jan 2025: See Christopher Armitage, Substack Trump and Putin chose to meet in Alaska, Aug 15th 2025 Looking up the history now as Trump sometimes made it sound like Putin … Continue reading

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It’s only men doing business

1986 Israel, Ehud Barak and technology: The upgrades to the drones were part of a larger technological push in the IDF, which in the late 1980s invested significant resources to acquire and develop precision ordnance—“smart bombs” that could hit their … Continue reading

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Gulag mentality

It is sad, but true. The Gulag horrors are being expanded in Russia. Innocent civilians from Ukraine are suffering there.  Out of our sight, out of reach from their suffering families. Pain radiates out from their locations and maybe you … Continue reading

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Survivors who lived in a large land mass

Since the US is now running a tarrif trade war, mostly targeting China, it has been said that Xi told his people “eat bitterness” and that was interpreted as “absorb the pain”. It is well known, throughout the 5000 year … Continue reading

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Globalisation and Gangsterism

The post-Second World War order began to crumble in the first half of the 1980s. Its dissolution followed no obvious pattern, occurring instead as a series of seemingly disparate events: the spectacular rise of the Japanese car industry; communist Hungary’s … Continue reading

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Follow the Oil Pipelines

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germans have never achieved parity with West German wealth generation. Disgruntled East Germans have raised the profile of right wing AfD political beliefs. Initially, the AfD distanced itself from far-right parties in … Continue reading

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Chekov’s Gun

Another great book I’m reading, which helps me stay sane amongst the lies and false statements flying around social media, is Bob Woodward ‘s book, ‘War’. At the stirrings of the Ukrainian invasion, Woodward reported in his book: “Chekhov’s gun” … Continue reading

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Since Isabella of Spain, the Inquisition, Opus Dei expanded extremist Catholicism

I wrote a few blogs about the 15th century Iberian Peninsula back in 2017, such as: https://borderslynn.com/2017/06/13/forceful-woman And, in reading the piece below, I have learned those extremist Catholic beliefs have never been extinguished. The Opus Dei cult has evolved … Continue reading

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Keeping tabs on where the money went (Ukraine)

https://www.ifw-kiel.de/ You can’t make it up! Also see Statista, chart of percentage of Gross National Product by country: https://www.statista.com/ Weapons of war have been designed and manufactured by the US since Eisenhower, after WW2. But he warned, in his final … Continue reading

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Captagon

After Assad fled, one news item stayed in my head. A warehouse filled to the ceiling with the drug, Captagon. The comment was that this was the favourite drug of Jihadists. So today I found out more, reading this link: … Continue reading

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