Defending Putin’s Lake Valdai Retreat
Putin’s Valdai hideout is now a fortress, ringed by missiles, jets, and elite guards—his most secure retreat in Russia.
Putin’s Valdai hideout is now a fortress, ringed by missiles, jets, and elite guards—his most secure retreat in Russia.
At Alaska’s icy table, two nuclear heavyweights have a clean shot to freeze the slide—keep New START’s caps alive, put numbers on tac nukes, and fence Europe off from new land-based missiles.
Friday’s Trump-Putin summit in Alaska isn’t a breakthrough—it’s Moscow running the same stalling play it’s used since 2014, buying time while pressing its summer offensive.
A 22-year-old tank crewman with a top-secret clearance allegedly tried to trade America’s most guarded armor secrets for a Russian passport, proving the deadliest threats can come from within.
Special Forces history holds numerous obscure tales, like the unique joint US Special Forces-Russian Spetsnaz combat mission.
You don’t have to wear a swastika to be dangerous—and you don’t have to quote Dugin to be part of a war built on empire.
Derek Huffman thought he was trading rainbow flags for red-blooded tradition, but instead found himself neck-deep in mud, bullets, and a language he couldn’t understand, courtesy of Mother Russia’s ultimate bait-and-switch.
While the world’s eyes are fixed on the Middle East, Ukraine is slugging it out in a no-holds-barred brawl with Russia, trading drones, artillery, and defiance in a fight that’s shaping the future far beyond its borders.
Military supremacy might win battles, but it can’t untangle the centuries of blood, belief, and bitterness that fuel these wars—and that’s the hard truth no arsenal can fix.
Ukraine isn’t nibbling at the edges anymore—they’re punching Moscow in the teeth and daring them to bite back.
When Ukraine launched Operation Spiderweb, it didn’t just cross into Russian airspace—it rewrote the whole playbook and sent Moscow scrambling to find the pages.
Negotiating with Putin isn’t about finding common ground over chamomile tea—it’s about dragging a bare-knuckle brawler into a ring where losing means he walks out missing teeth, not territory.