A Ukrainian BREM-1 recovers a Russian T-72. Via social media The Ukrainian army finally has found a good use for at least some of the dozens of ancient Russian army T-62 tanks it has captured. The Ukr...
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Fed is not your friend
As Wall Street gears up for key inflation data, Wells Fargo Securities’ Michael Schumacher believes one thing is clear: “The Fed is not your friend.” He warns Federal Reserve chair J...
Washington Is Escalating Its Military Role In Ukraine. What Happens When Russia Reacts?
Carl Sandburg relates the story of a friend visiting Abraham Lincoln at the White House near the end of the Civil War, and remarking how improbable it was that the nation had turned to a “one-horse” l...
Russia, Bitcoin adoption and mining- The Cryptonomist
According to some rumors, Russia would be ready for both the use of Bitcoin and mining. Russia may finally take advantage of mining legally and begin trading Bitcoin, according to some news agencies o...
Lay A Minefield, Then Scatter More Mines From the Air
The Ukrainian 55th Artillery Brigade in May 2022. Ukrainian army photo Russian tanks keep running into Ukrainian mines outside Vuhledar. Either the Russians are getting sloppy, or the Ukrainians have ...
Iranian Drones Are Being Modified To Russian Specifications
As Russia and Iran push ahead with plans to build a new factory for manufacturing thousands of loitering munitions (single-use, self-detonating drones) for the Ukraine war, remnants of one of these dr...
Russia Releases Bitzlato Co-Founder Anton Shkurenko After Questioning – Exchanges Bitcoin News
Russian authorities have released the recently arrested co-founder of crypto exchange Bitzlato, said to have processed illicit funds worth millions of U.S. dollars. Anton Shkurenko, who was questioned...
No Reason For Big Adjustments Amid Strong Demand, Price Environment
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, center, greets the delegates at the ‘India Energy Week 2023’ in … [+] Bengaluru, India, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. Over 500 energy industry heavyweigh...
Despite Howard Buffett’s Help, Land Mines Litter Ukraine And Threaten Spring Planting
Tens of millions around the world rely on the country for grain and cooking oil, but clearing live explosives from Russia’s unprovoked invasion is expensive, and even with Buffett’s philanthropy, it’s...
Saudi Arabia And Russia Face Off Over Chinese Oil Market Share
China’s oil demand is rising with the reopening from Covid restrictions after nearly three years. The initial demand trend suggests a reopening in fits and starts, but analysts say that it will be Chi...
Russia Subsidizes Crypto Mining Facility in Siberia
The Russian government has backtracked its anti-crypto mining stance and has now gone as far as subsidizing a crypto mining facility in Siberia. The government added that it now provides tax incentive...
Russia To Launch $12.3 Million Crypto Mining Farm In Coming Month
The Russian Federation is looking to launch a crypto-mining facility worth over $12.3 million (900 million rubles) in the coming months. According to a report by local Russian media, RBC, this massive...
Ukraine Could Send Its New Challenger 2 Tanks To Fight Russia’s Best T-90 Tanks
A British Army Challenger 2 tank. Crown Copyright It’s beginning to make sense why the Ukrainian army is equipping two fast-moving air-mobile brigades—the 25th and 80th—with lumbering, British-made Ch...
Russia Introduces New Investor Immigration Program Despite War And Sanctions
Moscow launched a new investor immigration program in January 2023 (Photo by Alexander NEMENOV / … [+] AFP) (Photo by ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Russia recently...
Russia Gives Tax Incentives to Crypto Miners
In the most recent months, the cryptocurrency mining business has been met with moratoriums in several regions of the United States and Canada. Those who wish to invest in cryptocurrency mining may no...
Air Force’s aging AWACS stirs questions of airborne-battle readiness
As the recent Chinese spy balloon encounter showed, keeping the skies safe is a tough job. For decades the U.S. Air Force has relied on the E-3 Sentry, and the most recent version, the E-3G, has been ...
Brent Oil Jumps Above $86 After Russia Says It Plans Output Cut
(Bloomberg) — Oil jumped after Russia said it plans to cut March production by 500,000 barrels a day. Most Read from Bloomberg Brent crude climbed as much as 2.6% in London to trade above $86 a ...
The Ukrainian Army Just Blew Up One Of The Russian Army’s 10 Terminator Fighting Vehicles
The BMP-T explodes. Ukrainian army capture The single company of unique BMP-T Terminator fighting vehicles that the Russian army deployed to eastern Ukraine last spring was, for many months, pretty lu...
Now Russia Is Adding Inferior Optics To Its T-80 Tanks, Too
A T-80 with the 1PN96MT-02 sight. Russian defense ministry photo We already knew that the Russian army—in a desperate effort to make good its losses in Ukraine—was pulling old T-72 tanks out of storag...
Bitzlato Co-Founder Anton Shkurenko Arrested in Russia, Report – Exchanges Bitcoin News
Russian authorities have reportedly arrested the second co-founder of seized cryptocurrency exchange Bitzlato. The man, who recently promised to restore the platform’s operations from Russia, was deta...
Russia Likely To Delay Its Digital Ruble Plans, Here’s Why
Gazprombank, a bank among 15 Russian banks participating in the Digital Ruble central bank digital currency (CBDC) tests, stated the launch of the Digital Ruble should be done gradually. The bank beli...
Smashed By Ukrainian Mines And Artillery, Russia’s Winter Offensive Just Ground To A Halt Outside Vuhledar
Russian armor outside Vuhledar. Ukrainian army capture Russia’s widely-anticipated winter offensive has begun. Aiming to extend its control over eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, Russian troops are att...
Ukraine Has Exactly One T-80UK Command Tank. It Just Fought A Dangerous Solo Battle Near Bakhmut.
The 30th Mechanized Brigade’s T-80UK in action. Via social media The Ukrainian army has captured exactly one Russian T-80UK command tank that independent analysts have been able to confirm. That...
Here Are All The U.S. Sanctions Against China
Topline China has been subjected to mounting U.S. sanctions in recent years—and tensions between the two countries have escalated over the past week after the Biden Administration shot down a suspecte...
Russia Survived a Year of Sanctions by Investing as Never Before
(Bloomberg) — Russia is seeking to spend its way out of the self-inflicted economic crisis that threatened to deliver the deepest recession of President Vladimir Putin’s more than two-decade rul...
It’s Possible 270,000 Russians Have Been Killed Or Wounded In Ukraine
Russian graves. Thom Quine photo At least 200,000. As many as 270,000. That’s how many Russian troops have died, been wounded or gone missing in the first 11 months of Russia’s war in Ukraine, accordi...
Ukraine Could Get 237 Leopard 1A5 Tanks—Assuming Someone Can Cut A Deal With A Belgian Arms-Dealer
A Belgian army Leopard 1A5. Wikimedia Commons The governments of Belgium, Denmark, Germany and The Netherlands are trying to scrape up all the old Leopard 1A5 tanks in Europe and send them to Ukraine....
BP Boasts Record Profits As Oil Giants Report Historic Windfalls
Topline British energy giant BP on Tuesday reported its highest-ever annual profits, the latest in a series of bumper earnings reports from oil and gas companies reaping the rewards of soaring energy ...
Bryan Wright Came To Ukraine To Help. It Almost Killed Him.
Bryan Wright photo Bryan Wright was the artistic director for a small company in South Carolina when, in late 2021, Russia began massing forces along the border with Ukraine. Wright felt compelled to ...
The Biggest Mortars In Ukraine Are Slow, Devastating Siege Weapons
An M240 in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Soviet army photo The Ukrainian army’s giant mortar is something of a mystery. We don’t know where the Ukrainians got their 240-millimeter M240 or M240s. Nor do we...
Russia Built A Dozen Air-Defense Vehicles For War In The Arctic. Then Sent Them To Ukraine To Get Blown Up.
Test of a Tor-M2DT. Russian defense ministry photo Russia built a dozen special air-defense vehicles specifically for shooting down enemy warplanes in the brutal cold of the snowy Arctic. But the Tor-...