Eric Woods

being totally comfortable speaking this way to millions of people is one of many signals that we're in an extremely dark place

The Results of Russia’s Crawling Summer Offensives – Riddle Russia Eric Woods on Military Developments Shaping Russian War Strategy for Late 2025-Early 2026

What was the Russian summer offensives in Ukraine in about? Did it achieve its goals based on its own merits? What can be expected from the Russian military's actions through the remainder of 2025 and into early 2026?
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The Results of Russia’s Crawling Summer Offensives – Riddle Russia Eric Woods on Military Developments Shaping Russian War Strategy for Late 2025-Early 2026

My latest article looking at the results of Russia's summer offensive. I argue the Sumy operation was a bit of a failure given the amount of elite forces involved, but Russia continues making progress in Donetsk Oblast. ridl.io/the-results-...

U.S. deports at least 30 people to Russia in a single day, Russian rights activists report On August 27, the United States deported at least 30 Russian citizens back to Russia, Dmitry Valuyev, president of the group Russian America for Democracy in Russia, told The Insider

The Trump administration is deporting anti-Putin political asylum seekers, where they face the threat of torture or worse... theins.press/en/news/284453

There is no reason for armed troops to be in the nations capital. Full stop. Panhandlers in DuPont Circle are not a reason to do this. Are we looking at another Kent State?

If you are a hostile intelligence agency, you can get more out of a well-aimed rock at the right place and time today than entire Cold War expenditure of the KGB combined.

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I don’t know if I want these people trying to tackle doctrine and force structure questions 😂

more importantly, is that Hell Let Loose?

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It's like a nesting doll of civil-military crises. Just today:

1. Head of DIA fired
2. Trump threatens to deploy Army to Chicago + NYC
3. Blurring of police + military in DC
4. Use of FBI in political attack on Bolton
5. Goons in DC curtailing basic civil rights

I'm unhappy to report that Huntington did not tell the military what to do if they were coopted into prosecuting American citizens on American soil

Note to self: start a “the Left is CENSORING me” grift to pay off student loans

This is a global exercise is stroking one man’s tiny ego. The substance is that Trump thinks there is substance.

king doggo

Opinion | Putin Should Be Careful What He Wishes For

Putin "won", played Trump in #Alaska?

Fact is, despite the summit hype/optics, the Ukraine war remains a strategic cul de sac for Russia

Putin will it keep going - but he'll make Russia ill-prepared for an increasingly unruly Trumpian world, as I write:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/o...

Thus, it appears Trump has dropped his earlier demand for an immediate ceasefire before peace talks—a position Ukraine had previously accepted—and now supports negotiations on a lasting peace while fighting continues, a stance the Kremlin has consistently pushed since the last Istanbul talks.

Why are universities contemplating closing entire humanities and foreign language programs, you ask? This. This is why.

What? You haven't heard about this existential threat to these subjects across Every. Single. R1. Research. University. in the country?

No, I suspect that you haven't:

This is why I tell people not to look at splotches on the map. They don't tell you if it's a company sized element holding an area or a couple guys on motorcycles who will be dead before the map is updated.

the drone ai thing is buzzword marketing to get tens of millions of dollars in DoD contracts.

I see that territorial adjustments that Trump promised are already happening. Best of luck to Lisa Murkowski on Russia's Federation Council

it’s quite the approach to export controls…

Brief BDA of the strike on the Shahed-launching base in Primorsko-Akhtarsk:

Imagery shows 4 destroyed tent-like structures, likely used for storage. No signs of detonation, only burning. Launch rails and large storage facilities are intact. Drone launches appear to be continuing

Proffesor Saunders with the astute take on U.S. foreign policy (as always)

When They Came for the Communists… – Riddle Russia Andrey Pertsev sums up the political events of the week (August 4−8)

Sergei Kiriyenko continues to reshape Russia political landscape - now with arrests and searches of regional Communist Party offices.
Kiriyenko aims to fully control the regional elites who still use "special" Russia party system to move things around
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I think “pure improvisation” is the official grand strategy of the U.S. for the next 3.5-7.5 years.

India souring on Sukhoi and wanting to indigenize their own aircraft production is well documented in Russian and in English. Is this people trying to spin out articles quickly, or what?

Weird! Another badly researched defense article by a different author, but for the same reasons. Again: India hasn't announced a decision to acquire the Su-57 and India was involved in its developed but withdrew after spending ~$300 mil. due to tech and quality issues.

www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

Oh dear…