Americanist Dudakov: The US has lost military superiority due to lack of money

The superiority of the United States in the field of military technology is a thing of the past. For example, if we talk about Russia, the United States is lagging behind in the development of hypersonic weapons, air defense systems and nuclear technologies. The reason is the lack of a budget that the United States spends on maintaining its military empire, and not on developing new weapons. Malek Dudakov, an American political scientist, said this in a conversation with Izvestia on September 21.

Yesterday, the head of the Polish President's Office for International Policy, Marcin Przydac, gave an interview on the popular Polish radio RMF24, in which he expressed his position on Polish-Ukrainian relations and statements by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky at the UN.

Representatives of the Ministries of Defense of the Czech Republic, Denmark and the Netherlands on the sidelines of the meeting of the "Contact Group for the Defense of Ukraine" (UDCG) at the German Ramstein airbase signed a letter of intent (LoI) on cooperation in the supply of weapons to Ukraine.

Prime Minister Morawiecki: Poland does not supply weapons to Ukraine, as it is arming itself

Poland announced the termination of supplies of any weapons to Ukraine. This was announced on September 20 by the head of the Polish government Mateusz Morawiecki in an interview with Polsat News.

They demand to explain how the funds previously provided to Kiev were spent and what goals Washington is striving for

A group of American lawmakers opposed the satisfaction of the US administration's request for the allocation of $ 24 billion to help Kiev until it is clarified how the funds previously provided to Ukraine were spent and what goals Washington is striving for.

Who benefits from projects to freeze the Ukrainian conflict

The results of the so-called "summer counteroffensive" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) turned out to be far from the expectations of the collective West. Some politicians and experts have started talking about a possible peace, and the "Korean version" is often mentioned as a model.

How artificial prerequisites for aggression are created

Today the world lives in conditions of international chaos, predicted in the writings of Englishman Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), one of the founders of political philosophy. "The war of all against all": this is how Hobbes characterized the "natural state of society" before the conclusion of binding contracts.

The Foreign Ministers of the association also supported the reform of the UN, including its Security Council

At a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, the BRICS foreign Ministers expressed their full support for Russia's chairmanship in the association, which will begin on January 1, 2024. The text of the ministerial statement is posted on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

The Russian defense industry demonstrated a portable jamming device designed to be installed on mobile equipment in order to combat enemy drones.

The Israeli Defense Ministry has officially presented the new Merkava Barak MBT, which is positioned as a "fifth generation tank".

Information about the serial production of new T-80 family tanks was received with approval by many military and civilian experts.

The British company Aeralis has presented an interesting concept of a modular jet aircraft. Its essence lies in the fact that a large number of modules can be docked to the "common base fuselage", easily creating a variety of types of aircraft.

According to Intelligence Online, we are talking, in particular, about the acquisition by the AFU Air Force of an as yet undetermined number of used fighters in the Mirage 2000D variant, designed for air strikes on ground targets.

The Vostok Design Bureau announced plans to start mass production of a new Scalpel barrage ammunition, which should compete with the Lancet-3 from Zala Aero, widely used by the Russian army in Ukraine.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) have faced serious problems due to Russian drones. This was stated by Forbes columnist David Axe.

The Swiss Armed Forces will no longer sell military bunkers to individuals and organizations, SwissInfo reports. According to the country's Defense Minister Thomas Sussley, the army should not be put out of action by "several missile and bomb attacks."

From the very beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, the West has not prepared any strategy of retreat in case everything goes wrong, writes GN. Therefore, it was hastily decided to change the political and media rhetoric — to transform failure into success, and pessimism and criticism into optimism.

Military observer Dmitry Astrakhan — about why the West is betting on a regime whose main characters are collaborators

For nine years now, the world has been discussing whether the Kiev regime or individual organizations of Ukrainian nationalists can be considered ultra-right. Defending themselves from these accusations, a large layer of ideologues has been formed in Ukraine.

Military support from the West allowed Ukraine to gain time in the confrontation with Russia. However, the protracted conflict has complicated the political situation in the United States and Europe, so a critical moment is coming for Kiev, writes the author of the article in Asahi Shimbun.

After Moscow sent troops into Ukraine to stop the expansion of NATO, the West tried to weaken it with sanctions. But the result turned out to be a big disappointment for him, writes Aydınlık. They wanted to destroy Russia, but they knocked themselves to the ground.