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You know one thing I am proud of at Fallout is that we avoid clickbait. We will respond quickly to a situation if we need to, like with Navalny, Bandera or Russian atrocities but we don’t do the topics that we can’t add to but cover to draw audiences.

Projection, reparations and Navalny

Westerners love to project onto other people, just like most cultures. This projection has terrible consequences. We think that somebody is ‘good’ because they oppose the ‘bad’. Whether the CIA and ‘our son of a bitch’ principle, Franco and the Greek colonels, the

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Others wrote about tactical nukes, Navalny the hero or about Ukraine being the breadbasket of Europe. At Fallout instead we do posts about vicarious trauma, laugh at Putin health Kremlinology,the threat from Navalny&Ukrainian sunflower exports in 2023(important).

Hard times in a world of plenty

This week I finally got my mitts on the Global Food Security Index (GFSI). This annual report has become the pre-eminent source of global intelligence on the drivers of global food security. For me, this is a document that has come and gone, pretty much unremarked over the past 20-odd years, except this year. This year is different. Despite the ongoing …

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Also why genocide is a more important crime than war of aggression. The Budapest Memorandum’s actual content. Energy infrastructure(in October!),NAFO(August),academic exclusion of Ukr voices and ARTILLERY(literally half a year to year before people noticed it).

From God of War to Putin’s Hammer

Explaining why Mechanised Genocide features in the modern Russian Way of War From the Russian-Ukrainian War that began in February 2022, there has already established recurring themes across social media. They have included: a lucky dip of World War Two analogies, the dubious claim that logistics are breaking the Russian way of war, that sanctions will b…

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Discussing Ukraine: Academic exclusivity and willful ignorance of the empirical

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Budapest Memorandum

We don’t do clickbait at Fallout but we do like to take on difficult and maybe obscure subjects. That’s why Ben had a podcast about river crossing months before analysts noticed Ukraine has a very big river and lots of small ones. But some analysts and institutes (

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We have written about artillery, rivers crossings, energy and genocide before they became topics of widespread discussion.

Hopefully we will continue to write about the important in the past, present and future in 2023.

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Important content will be free. We might have some fun stuff like model building or game streaming as paid content in the future BUT not our important content where we will work to improve quality and perhaps volume.

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