By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 27 May 2025
What We Know About the Car Ramming in Liverpool
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HAMAS Reportedly Admits To Being in Crisis
Taking the Right Lessons From the Dismantling of the Russian Illegals Network in Brazil
Dealing with the Conspiracy Theory that Islamic State “Never” Attacks Israel
What Iran’s Leaks Really Tell Us About Syrian “Interim” President Ahmad al-Shara’s Past with the Islamic State
A Note on the Iraqi Prime Minister’s Dependence on Iran
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 May 2025
Muhammad al-Sudani has been Iraq’s Prime Minister since October 2022. He was installed at Iran’s behest after a year-long political logjam following the 2021 Iraqi elections. The political fronts for Iran’s terrorist-militias lost those elections, but Tehran picked the Prime Minister anyway.
Profile of Islamic State “Heroic Commander” Jarrah al-Shami
Trump’s “Policies” on Syria and Ukraine Come into View
Did 27 Million Soviet Citizens Die Fighting the Nazis?
A Note on Viktor Zemskov’s Estimate of Soviet Fatalities in the Second World War
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 12 April 2025
Russian historian Viktor Zemskov estimated in 2012 that total Soviet losses in the “Great Fatherland War” were sixteen million (11.5 million military casualties and 4.5 million civilian deaths), a far lower total than the official Soviet claim since 1990, inherited by the Russian Federation, of twenty-seven million.
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