Last December, in a post titled "West could cut Russia from SWIFT, sanction Nord Stream, Latvia says" I half-jokingly mentioned the armed forces of Wokistan:
Do they think Russia hasn't thought of this possibility? Of course they did, a decade ago.
We're dealing with a nation of chess players. They've gamed out four possibilities, sixteen countermoves and 64 counter-countermoves. Meanwhile the American military have been working on their pronouns.
And the Russians also have a secret weapon: Elvira Nabiullina, the head of the Russian central bank.....
On February 4 the press release embedded in this tweet came out of NATO Headquarters:
The Gender & Hybrid Deep Dive is the first among a series of future sessions, including Gender & Resilience, Gender & Deterrence and Gender & Climate Change. The Deep Dive series aim to integrate a gender perspective throughout all of #NATO’s core tasks.https://t.co/Bx8BHIcIzA
— NATO ACT (@NATO_ACT) February 5, 2022
The Official Account of #NATO Allied Command Transformation. NATO’s home in North America. Follow us on facebook.com/NATO.ACT/.
Russia doesn't have an Allied Command Transformation.
They have Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu.
Here is is at the funeral for the inventor of the AK-47, Mikhail Kalashnikov:
If interested see also yesterday's:
Attention Bettors: If You Have Taken A Flyer On The Ukrainian Military You May Want To Reconsider
Russia's Defense Minister Talks Smack* to Germany
....“After everything Germany has done to our country, I think, they should not talk on the issue for another two hundred years,” Shoigu said. “Ask your grandparents about their experience of talking to Russia from the position of strength. They will probably be able to tell you.”....
