Daily Archives: Oct 9, 2025

Charles Mitchell

Russia’s Missile Maneuvers Expose Patriot Defense Weakness

In late September, a synchronized Russian attack integrated drones and ballistic missiles into one synchronised wave, overloading Ukraine's multi-layered defenses and highlighting a fundamental weakness: the U.S.-built Patriot missile system, for years deemed the gold standard of ballistic missile defense, is now having trouble keeping pace with new Russian...
Charles Mitchell

Zelensky Exposes Western Tech in Russian Drones as Nuclear Risks Rise

It was the sort of disclosure that puts shockwaves through defence ministries: microcomputers made in the United Kingdom, installed deep within Russian attack drones, found after a lethal attack on Ukraine's Lviv region. President Volodymyr Zelensky's claim was blunt Western components continue to flow into Moscow's war effort despite...
William Harrison

Russia’s War Economy Fuels a Global Climate and Biodiversity Spiral

It isn't the mushroom cloud or the roar of cannon that most subtly reconstitutes the world it is the persistent churn of a war economy, consuming forests, poisoning oceans, and upsetting climate regimes. Greenpeace's latest analysis warns that Russia's shift to an entire war economy is not only a...