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YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - Object M: The buried Estonian mystery the KGB spent years trying to reach | Reality Check

If you’re ever injured in an accident, you can check out Morgan & Morgan. You can start your claim in just a click without having to leave your couch: https://www.forthepeople.com/Ross In this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with Estonian filmmaker and author Mart Sander, whose new book, "Object M: Estonia's Buried Mystery," traces one of the strangest and least understood cases in Europe. In 1969, a man drilling a well in the Tallinn suburb of Merivälja struck something solid roughly seven meters down, and the fragments he broke loose eventually reached Soviet laboratories that concluded the alloy could not have been produced on this planet. Sander walks Coulthart through the two decades of excavation that…

THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Leonid Ragozin) - No, Russia Isn’t Finished

To make Moscow less threatening, the West should threaten Moscow less. The post No, Russia Isn’t Finished appeared first on The American Conservative .

Foreign Affairs No, Russia Isn’t Finished To make Moscow less threatening, the West should threaten Moscow less. If you were exclusively on a mainstream Western media diet in recent weeks, you’d be excused for thinking that the Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime now lies on its deathbed. Signs of “public discontent” are all over the place, you see. Silicon-lipped beauty blogger Viktoria Bonya attacked the government on YouTube. So did the notorious Kremlin propagandist Ilya Remeslo, fresh from a stint at a psychiatric ward. Meanwhile, the former defense minister Sergey Shoygu might be plotting a coup, according to CNN.…Open

THEFEDERALIST (Stephen Pimentel) - New Book Exposes Soviet Russia As A Parasitic Regime Built On Plunder

In Bogdan Musial's Stalin’s Great Raid, the author presents eye-opening research showing how Soviet industrial capacity was dependent on looting, not economic prosperity.

THENATIONALPULSE (Christopher Tomlinson) - Stats: British Arrests for Speech Crimes Dwarf Those of Former USSR.

PULSE POINTSWHAT HAPPENED: Statistics reveal that Britain is currently prosecuting more people for speech crimes than the former Soviet Union did.WHO WAS INVOLVED: Commentator Peter Nimitz, analyst Alex Kokcharov, and the British government.WHEN & WHERE: The statistics were posted on X (formerly Twitter) on March 4.KEY QUOTE: “USSR had centralized repression apparati (party officials & […] The post Stats: British Arrests for Speech Crimes Dwarf Those of Former USSR. appeared first on The National Pulse .

PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Statistics reveal that Britain is currently prosecuting more people for speech crimes than the former Soviet Union did. WHO WAS INVOLVED: Commentator Peter Nimitz, analyst Alex Kokcharov, and the British government . WHEN & WHERE: The statistics were posted on X (formerly Twitter) on March 4. KEY QUOTE: “USSR had centralized repression apparati (party officials & secret police ) while UK utilizes a combination of secret police, decentralized apparati aligned by judiciary (HR departments), & ethnic auxiliaries in certain territorial police forces,” Peter Nimitz wrote. IMPACT: The statistics reveal the massive scale of speech suppression in Britain. IN FULL Statistics circulated online suggest that Britain …Open

NPR (Esther Honig) - 'We were scared': Man recalls the night he nearly launched a nuclear missile

In 1974, Lt. Colonel Randall Lanning manned the launch controls that could deploy nuclear weapons in the event of a Soviet attack. He looks back at one night that's still etched in his memory.

NYTIMES (Serge Schmemann) - Trump Plays the Peace Game

To anyone who spent time in the old U.S.S.R., President Trump’s newly hatched “Board of Peace” evokes worrying echoes.