Snake Island saw some dramatic action last weekend, including a high-speed, low-level bombing run by Ukrainian jets and a series of strikes by Bayraktar TB2 drones which sank two patrol boats and a la...
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A Journalist Just Spotted Russia’s ‘Admiral Makarov’ Frigate, Intact And At Sea
‘Admiral Makarov’ before the war. Photo via Wikimedia Commons H.I. Sutton, an independent journalist focusing on naval warfare, has spotted more than a dozen of the Russian Black Sea Fleet...
Biden Signs Bill To Accelerate Military Aid To Ukraine Using WWII-Era Lend-Lease Program
Topline President Joe Biden on Monday signed into law a bill making it easier for the U.S. to provide weapons to Ukraine, by reviving a process previously used by the U.S. to support the Allies during...
Ukraine Government Launches New Crypto Fundraising Platform
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, president of Ukraine, announced on Monday that it launched a new fundraising platform named United24, accepting donations in more than 100 cryptocurrencies Cryptocurrencies By u...
Purged! Nervous Putin Cuts Russian Air Force From 2022 Victory Day Parade
Security surrounds Russian President Vladimir Putin after the 2022 Victory Day Parade AFP via Getty Images In a surprise admission of unreliability, Moscow cut Russia’s Air Force from several 2022 Vic...
Biden calls Congress to pass major Ukraine aid package before new Covid funding
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks during a Rose Garden event at the White House in Washington, May 9, 2022. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters President Joe Biden urged Congress on Monday to quickly app...
China’s Covid Policy Will “Exact A Very High Cost On The Economy”
A health worker in personal protective equipment administers a booster shot to an international … [+] resident at a hospital during a lockdown due to Covid-19 in Shanghai, China on Saturday, May...
Collective Pain Calls For Collective Action
Collective Behavior has gotten a bad rap. When sociologist Franklin Henry Giddings coined the term more than 100 years ago, he described it as the actions that a loosely organized group of people migh...
Russia’s Black Sea Fleet Started The War With Eight ‘Raptor’ Patrol Boats. It Might Have Three Left.
A ‘Raptor’ patrol boat. Photo via Wikipedia In 10 weeks of fighting, Ukraine’s TB-2 drones and anti-tank missile teams have wreaked havoc on the Russian Black Sea Fleet’s patrol boat floti...
Putin Compares Invasion Of Ukraine With Fight Against Nazi Germany In Victory Day Speech
Topline Russian President Vladimir Putin in his Victory Day speech on Monday attempted to draw parallels between the Russian ongoing invasion of Ukraine and the Soviet Union’s fight against Nazi Germa...
U.S. Targets Bank Execs And G7 Pledges To Cut Off Russian Oil
Topline Members of the Group of Seven committed Sunday to banning or phasing out Russian oil imports, and the United States will sanction three of Russia’s biggest TV channels and 35 Russian banking e...
Jill Biden Makes Surprise Mother’s Day Visit To Ukraine
Topline U.S. first lady Jill Biden met with Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska in a previously unannounced trip to a western Ukrainian border city Sunday, marking the latest of several visits by U.S....
Contra Simpleton Pundits, ‘the Fed’ Didn’t Cause the Stock-Market Correction
Every stock-market rally is top heavy. In other words, every stock-market rally is led upwards by the very few. The 80/20 Pareto Principle that defines so much of life is 95/5 when it comes to equitie...
Europe Car Forecasts Turn Negative, While Electric Sales Growth To Stall
Electric car sales in Western Europe are set to stall. getty Sales prospects for cars and SUVs in Western Europe are fading fast with forecasts dropping into negative territory as economic prospects w...
China Covid Policies “Causing Massive Uncertainty For Businesses,” European Chamber Says
A Chinese flag in front of the Shanghai Railway Station during a lockdown due to Covid-19 in … [+] Shanghai earlier this month.Source: Bloomberg © 2022 Bloomberg Finance LP China’s Covid-19 poli...
Ukraine’s Best Fighter Jets Just Bombed The Hell Out Of The Russian Troops On Snake Island
Su-27s strike Snake Island. Ukrainian defense ministry capture The Ukrainian air force’s best fighter jets just staged a daring raid on the Russian force occupying Ukraine’s strategic Snake Island. Th...
Ukraine’s Air Force Is Back! But Who Knows For How Long.
A Ukrainian Su-25 over Donbas on May 7, 2022. TikTok capture Ten weeks into Russia’s wider war on Ukraine, Kyiv’s tiny, aging air force is in much better shape than anyone should have expected prior t...
The Invasion Of Ukraine Demonstrates The Necessity For Crypto Control
These monies were available to the Ukrainian military in minutes, not weeks, unlike the backing provided by nations throughout the world. People might view bitcoins as a possibly life-saving method fo...
All Women, Children And Older Adults Evacuated From Azovstal Plant, Ukraine Says
Topline Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Veheshchuk said Saturday all women, children and the elderly have been evacuated from the besieged Azovstal steel works in Mariupol following an internati...
When Will The Ukraine War Stop?
MOSCOW, RUSSIA – JUNE 24: Military vehicles during a Victory Day military parade in Red Square … [+] marking the 75th anniversary of the victory in World War II, on June 24, 2020 in Moscow...
Ukraine Made Exactly One Copy Of Its Best Cannon. It Just Joined The War.
The 2S22 in action. Photo via Sergey Pashynsky The Kramatorsk Heavy Machinery Plant, in Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, built exactly one 2S22 howitzer around five years ago. As a Russi...
Diesel fuel is in short supply as prices surge — Here’s what that means for inflation
The prices for gas and diesel fuel, over $6.00 a gallon, are displayed at a petrol station in Los Angeles, March 2, 2022. Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images Diesel prices are surging, contributing...
The Ukraine invasion shows why we need crypto regulation
Shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, the Ukrainian government tweeted a request for funds in the form of Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH) and Tether (USDT). The total received now stands at ...
Another Russian Warship Is Burning In The Black Sea
The Russian warship “Admiral Makarov” passes through Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey on August 13, … [+] 2021. (Photo by Muhammed Gencebay Gur/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Anadolu ...
‘Compelling Evidence’ Of Russian War Crimes—Including Deliberate Killing Of Civilians—In Ukraine, Amnesty International Says
Topline Amnesty International on Friday said it has documented “compelling evidence” Russian forces had committed war crimes in Ukraine, the latest development in a growing campaign by governments and...
How Morpher Arena is Supporting Ukraine With Stock Trading
Ever since the Ukraine-Russia conflict began in early 2022, there have been concerted efforts from the rest of the world to support Ukraine. These have included fundraisers, sanctions against Russia i...
The Russian Frigate ‘Admiral Makarov’ Might Be The Juiciest Target In The Black Sea
‘Admiral Makarov.’ Russian navy photo After the dramatic sinking of the missile-cruiser Moskva by a Ukrainian missile battery on April 14, the Russian Black Sea Fleet is down to just three...
U.S. Reportedly Gave Ukraine Intel To Help Sink Russian Warship Moskva
Topline Ukraine used U.S.-provided intelligence to confirm the location of the Russian warship Moskva before striking it in April, several media outlets reported Thursday, reflecting a close intellige...