The Military Analyst

House buying in the UK is a long slow process you endure through a process called conveyancing.

If you are a Ukrainian on the front lines right now you will tell me that the lack of movement in the lines is just a passing phase.

I was offered the use of a new economic model not yet in the public domain, with all the latest official and unofficial economic data available, and it produced some fascinating results.

It brings me no pleasure to write that title, but fail it has.

Much of this will have passed many of you by.

In my lifetime something along the way has informed me there are two certainties.

Russia’s vast tank reserves that numbered in the 30,000+ range are gone for the most part.

Westerners who live in modern stable democracies, especially in the EU and I include Japan, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, do not truly recognise revolution, certainly not since 1900.

Last year back in October, I wrote the article on this link: THE CRIMEA GAMBIT: UKRAINE’S STRATEGY FOR ITS RETURN Having just re-read the article, nine months on things are even worse for Russia than they were then – and they were getting pretty bad.

We often fail to understand when we are in the middle of a geopolitical revolution.

Video of shocked Russians walking to work on a sunny morning in St Petersburg looking up at the sky.