Author: Guy D. McCardle

If you are anything like me (and the chances are that you are because you are reading this site), you’re an animal lover, and Ukraine citizens are rallying to find ways to save them.

For the first time since the start of the war in Ukraine, death sentences have been handed by Russian-backed troops to foreign fighters.

A bit of a lighthearted note before we get started here. Doesn’t the Russian recruiting blow-up guy look more than a little bit like Stan’s dad on South Park? Sometimes we find humor in the strangest places.

Who would have thought that a well-known Hollywood actor who has played a male nurse and a scowling model would end up in the capital of a war-torn country meeting with a former Ukrainian actor who is now President of that country? It sounds like it could have come straight off the pages of a movie script, but it didn’t. This is real life in 2022.

“History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.”  – Ronald Reagan

Now that Russia has control of the rubble that was once the city of Mariupol in Ukraine, the magnitude of the civilian losses is becoming known to the world.

The Ukranian Special Forces unit, known as the “Kraken” are trading in their privately owned pickup trucks and SUVs for Estonian donated armored cars known as the Alvis 4, a UK-made version of the South African Mamba combat vehicle.

Small but Mighty US Special Operations Command (SOCOM), on May 19th, issued a notice of intent to buy an undisclosed quantity of  Sig Sauer’s MCX short-barreled rifles as personal defense weapons (PDW) under a five-year sole source contract. As a result, special Operations Forces (SOF) will finally be receiving a much-requested ultra compact PDW to […]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made a visit to his troops on the front lines near the Mykolaiv region between Odessa and Kherson with the message, “We will definitely hold out! We will definitely win!

The readers have spoken, and I’m here today to continue my investigation into how relations between Ukraine and Russia got as bad as they are now.

Vladimir Putin has frequently invoked World War II and the denazification of the world as an excuse for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It is with no small amount of hypocrisy that neo-Nazi groups are fighting in Ukraine in the name of Russia.

Many of us watched in horror last August as evacuees stuffed themselves into US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Afghanistan in the desperate hope of making it out of the country.