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[…] war did not scuttle détente, it nevertheless brought the United States closer to a nuclear confrontation with the Soviet Union than at any point since the Cuban missile crisis. The American military airlift to Israel, moreover, had led Arab oil producers to embargo oil shipments to the United States and some Western European countries, […]
Ukrainian psyops
[…] the so-called Zaporizhzhia Avenger. This time, the military marvel was a 19-year-old gunner who had used portable surface-to-air artillery to down six Russian planes and a cruise missile. Perhaps still feeling stung by the Ghost of Kyiv debacle from three months earlier, international media ignored this new character and no more was heard of […]
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[…] source of the Soviets’ belief that LBJ was involved in the assassination. One possibility is Robert Kennedy, who got to know Soviet diplomatic personnel during the Cuban Missile Crisis. 102 or 103 33 Kincora Steve Dorril wrote about Kincora in the first issue of Lobster. We continued to cover the subject through many subsequent […]
Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the British State
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[PDF file]: […] deterrent at all) and by both the willingness and the ability to project power beyond the European theatre. That is why an upgrade for the Trident nuclear missile was agreed and why two new aircraft carriers have been built, all at vast expense, in the last decade. It is why Britain went to war […]
Historical notes on the war in Ukraine
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[PDF file]: […] sectors, with factories in the east of Ukraine supplying Russia with hardware such as helicopter engines (produced in Zaporizhia), ICBMs (designed and made in Dnepropetrovsk), and a missile guidance system (from Kharkiv).35 A Ukrainian pivot to the West would not only deprive Russia of a key market, it would threaten its links with what […]
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[…] source of the Soviets’ belief that LBJ was involved in the assassination. One possibility is Robert Kennedy, who got to know Soviet diplomatic personnel during the Cuban Missile Crisis. 85 or 86 28 Kincora Steve Dorril wrote about Kincora in the first issue of Lobster. We continued to cover the subject through many subsequent […]
Apocryphylia
[PDF file]: […] point – was Wilson a Soviet agent? Macmillan was simultaneously trying to persuade an irritated, reluctant and puzzled US that the UK should borrow/share the Polaris nuclear missile system (why didn’t the British just build their own?). Wilson and Labour looked absolutely certain to win an election held at any time in 1963-1964. Advised […]
Survival of the Richest: escape fantasies of the tech billionaires, by Douglas Rushkoff
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[PDF file]: […] the business of selling secure shelters where the wealthy can sit out the misfortunes that befall the rest of us. Many of these are converted Cold War missile silos. As with ReGen it isn’t clear how many of these have been built. But, there again, if you were buying one and fitting it out, […]