There's a difference between individual unit commanders forging documents when coercion doesn't work and a central government policy to send conscripts officially to the war. That differenc… (View Post)

Rosstat are fiddling the figures, but incompetently. So they publish figures showing overall output in the industrial sector is down by 0.1%. But they also publish figures showing production of every… (View Post)

I wonder what the record shortest 5-Test series is, in terms of balls bowled? You'd think this series would be competitive in that respect. (View Post)

One other problem is that the much-ridiculed Russian air defence systems have been learning from experience in the war and are now much improved. Apparently about half of Storm Shadows used are now s… (View Post)

I have a bad feeling that all those warnings about not giving governments excessive powers in the name of fighting terrorism, for fear of how those powers would be used by a government of bad guys, a… (View Post)