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Month: October 2022

North Korea: Nuclear loose cannon, or tool of Xi and Putin?

Are we facing nuclear Armageddon? What might precipitate the ultimate nightmare scenario? Joe Biden is worried. On October 6 the US President used the A-word, warning Vladimir Putin that any use of a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine risked cataclysmic…

Summer camps for indoctrination: Russians teach Ukrainian children how to fire guns

DISTURBING pictures have emerged of Ukrainian children in Russia-occupied Mariupol being trained in the use of firearms and mine sweepers The images were passed to National Security News by the Oleksandr Merezhko, the chair of the Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Committee…

Part I: Republicanism and “An ever changing future.”

As the recently departed Queen Elizabeth II ascended the throne on her Coronation Day on June 2nd 1953, she spoke memorably of the living strength of the Commonwealth, as well as of “societies old and new; of lands and races…

Putin warned his “mediocre” troops aren’t up to fighting in a nuclear battlefield

Vladimir Putin has been warned that his rag tag army of  exhausted conscripts and  demoralised mercenaries are in no fit state for him to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in the Ukraine. General David H. Petraeus, a former top U.S. commander in Iraq…