Isranet Daily Briefing
Thursday, June 29th 2023 / Wednesday, November 1st 2023
Prigozhin’s Rebellion, Putin’s Fate, and Russia’s Future: A Conversation with Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, June 24, 2023 Did ‘General Armageddon’ Help Plan the Russian Coup?: Jim Geraghty, National Review, June 28, 2023 What Wagner’s Mutiny Means for Its Sprawling Business Empire: Simon Marks and Stephanie Baker, Bloomberg, June 27, 2023 China’s Ties to Putin, Kremlin […]
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Thursday, June 29th 2023 / Saturday, November 4th 2023
Foreign Affairs, June 24, 2023 “… look at his pithy and pointed vocabulary, his cadences, his ability to assume the role of tough guy, heart-on-the-sleeve Russian patriot, the truth teller who calls out the opportunists, the morons, and the thieves Putin has appointed.” Stephen Kotkin is a preeminent historian of Russia and the author […]
Jim Geraghty National Review, June 28, 2023 “Brutal Maniac, Working with Other Brutal Maniac, Fails to Depose Chief Brutal Maniac.” An Unprepared Putin Many aspects of this weekend’s short-lived coup attempt in Russia remain mysterious, but the Wall Street Journal’s Bojan Pancevski, the paper’s Germany correspondent, sheds a little light on what Yevgeny Prigozhin wanted to […]
Bill Gertz Washington Times, June 26, 2023 “Chinese state-controlled outlets revealed divergent views on the uprising as countries around the world struggled to make sense of the weekend’s chaos and Mr. Putin‘s hold on power.” China‘s leadership is closely watching recent events in Russia, concerned that a similar military revolt may erupt in Beijing, a senior White […]
Tuesday, June 27th 2023 / Wednesday, November 1st 2023
What Does Israel Think? The Revolt in Russia: Q&A with Amb. Arkady Mil-Man, Israel’s Former Ambassador to Russia: INSS Israel, YouTube, June 25, 2023 — Everything you wanted to know about the dramatic day in the Kremlin: Was there any foreshadowing? Is the event behind us? How does it affect Israel? And might the whole […]
Tuesday, June 27th 2023 / Saturday, November 4th 2023
Yaroslav Trofimov WSJ, June 26, 2023 “… none of the key players in the power struggle—beginning when Prigozhin seized the southern city of Rostov Saturday—has been strengthened by the ordeal that brought the country to the edge of civil war.” A day after Wagner’s mutiny showed the unexpected fragility of President Vladimir Putin’s regime, all the main players in […]
Yonah Jeremy Bob Jerusalem Post, June 25, 2023 “Such military aid could include new cyber weapons, the S-400 anti-aircraft missile system, new advanced Russian aircraft or even advances in the nuclear weapons field.” For the moment, the world-shaking potential coup by the Russian Wagner Group against Russian President Vladimir Putin has ended. Putting aside whether Wagner […]
Aris Roussinos UnHerd, June 26, 2023 “The tensions Putin had permitted to escalate within his war cabinet — whether as intentional policy or sheer incompetence must remain a matter of speculation — now looked to be spiralling out of control.” Waking up on Saturday morning, Putin must have wished he’d kept catering in-house. Only the day before, […]
Tuesday, January 24th 2023 / Saturday, December 2nd 2023
What Have We Bargained for in Ukraine?: Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, Jan. 7, 2023 Putin, Taboos, and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Michelle Bentley, Current History, Volume 122, Issue 840, January 2023 Study This Picture: Russia’s Thermobaric Weapons Might Be the Worst Way To Die: Brent M. Eastwood, 1945, Jan. 19, 2023 Why Russia’s ‘Terminator’ Vehicle Might Be […]
David Hambling Forbes, Jan. 19, 2023 “A Russian source claimed, with interesting detail, that BMPT had good APS [Active Protection System], had inflicted a remarkable number of casualties and were generally well regarded.” Russia’s new BMPT “Terminator” is a novel type of armored vehicle with multiple weapons and may represent the next stage in […]
Brent M. Eastwood 1945, Jan. 19, 2023 “This makes multiple-launch rocket systems like the TOS-1A even more deadly.] When it comes to thermobaric weapons – the term just sounds ominous. Thermobarics are also described as aerosol weapons or vacuum bombs, terms that likely sound even worse to your ears. To put these deadly concepts to use, […]
Michelle Bentley Current History, Volume 122, Issue 840, January 2023 “Failure to respect WMD norms also undermines future arms control diplomacy. WMDs are regulated by agreements that hold taboos at their core.” Vladimir Putin does not play by the rules. The Russian president has long had a reputation for riding roughshod over the values […]
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