When did Truth die?
I guess I was 4 when the Korean War started, which was 1950. Later, when I was seven, my parents took me to a local movie theater in the village not so far from our home. I don’t remember the movie but I remember the cartoons and the news reel — the Korean War.
It wasn’t that simple, of course.
But, back in those days, there were two kinds of truth.
The first were things he knew from experience, like my Teddy.
The other kind with things that people told you and you could only pretend to imagine. Teddy was more interesting.
At 4 I didn’t know what war was .
Later was whatever my parents told me it was— “truth ”. Although they didn’t know it any better than I or Teddy had when I was 4. .
But ,as time went on, I learned a lot —or thought I learned. I was forced to read. By high school I thought I know what was happening in the world. Now, we had TV!
I still didn’t understand anything much better than I was 4.
Then, the information age and the Internet happened. An explosion of information, blowing the whole concept of truth . No one could trust anything anyone said on TV or in the newspapers or in magazines or beer parlors.
All you could do is sift through the fragments of broken realities.
Yet l still hungered to believe. I hungered for simple explanations. But all I could find where now “narratives” which for journalists means stories - -fictions — in which there are no people— only characters.
Things have gotten worse, not better.
How do we understand events today?
Arguably, we have a lot more information about what is actually happening than, say, my Mom and Dad did about the Korean War, or even WW2 before that—when “Good” (us) and Evil (them) were clearly defined.
But today here are so many sources, replicating virally.
The mainstream media tell different stories, governments tell other stories, podcasters and bloggers all have their versions, and there is a sorts of stuff on X and Telegram. OSINT is not “intelligence” – it is rumor and gossip.
Truth now hides in closets and basements and forgotten corners, in darkness and contradiction, in questions that itch in your mind, that make the heart ache.
I don’t know if I understand anything better than I was 4.
Let me give you a very banal example.
Right now, the Kiev Regime is collapsing not just militarily, but industrially, economically, demographically – and politically. The unelected president, Zelensky, still holds the reins of power, still refuses elections which he would almost certainly lose and which would be the end of his career, if not his life. There are any number of people who want his job – Zaluzhny, Fedorov, among others. There are all sorts of rumors everywhere. But nobody really knows.
Western bloggers however like to pretend that they know something about what’s going on. If they don’t, nobody will read them.
Let me give you an example.
One popular blogger writes:
A French analyst has precisely mapped recent strikes.
Precisely? LOL.
August 20th 2026 + Ukrainian 🇺🇦 strikes on Russia At least 70 missiles have been used by Russia to target Kyiv last night, with around 7 targets identified. Ukraine also hit a Russian refinery.
Tonight, another large scale Russian missile attack is ongoing in Kyiv, amid the penury of interceptors Multiple Iskander ballistic missiles impacted, as well as some Zirkon cruise missiles and KN-23 ballistic missiles. Most of the Kalibr cruise missiles were intercepted
So who is this guy? Sounds authoritative.
Clement Molin is a 20-something French International Relations student . He has no military experience — has never come close to an active war zone— a “couch” or “armchair” OSINT analyst based in France who claims not to have institutional backing, but is also clearly not as “independent” as he likes to appear.
His relies strictly on digital, remote data.
Satellite imagery from Ukrainian sources indicating newly dug trenches and fortification lines.
Combat footage posted on Telegram and X.
NASA “FIRMS” thermal data to track artillery strikes and fires on the frontline.
He frequents defense conferences like EUROSATORY in Paris to meet with Ukrainian drone and defense companies and make friends.
He tends to make predictions that later turn out to be false because they minimize Russian operational successes or frame Ukrainian setbacks too optimistically—but are enthusiastically received by major Western media outlets and think tanks who frequently cite his data to support their ongoing propaganda campaigns.
Russia losing. Ukraine winning. He’s French, right? Not Ukrainian. So “objective”. AND he cites “data” —even thermal data.
Molin has written extensively arguing that Russia is not fighting an “attritional” war, but instead a not too well organized, more or less slapdash blend of attrition and breakthrough attempts. I and others marginally familiar with Russian military strategy see instead systematic demilitarization and destruction of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ material and manpower capabilities.
Naturally, Molin’s negative view of Russian capabilities impresses movers and shakers in the Western World.
As the director of his own “independent” think tank, Atum Mundi, (the Complete God of the World) an echo chamber popular in EU and NATO circles, Molin might be accused of self-interest as well. He definitely has a future.
Now let’s go back to his comment about how “most” Kalibrs were intercepted in the recent strike. It might sound like nitpicking, but in fact, the Ukrainians claimed a 100% interception rate. But the Kievans make false claims so often, that you have to doubt pretty much whatever they say.
The Russians didn’t bother to dignify Banderite silliness - just said that the missiles all hit their assigned targets!
Which means that the Ukrainians threw a factory to stop the Kalibrs, I guess. Clever! Molin should have noticed. Maybe he did — but just did not care.
Kalibr missiles cruise as low as 50 and 150 meters over land and under 50 meters over water hugging the terrain to stay beneath the radar horizon of traditional air defense systems for as long as possible. These missile uses inertial and satellite guidance to maneuver between pre-programmed waypoints, altering their path and avoiding obstacles or known defense sites
The 3M54 cruises at subsonic speeds to conserve fuel, but accelerates to supersonic speeds (up to Mach 3) during the final terminal approach to a target, giving defenders only seconds to react.
Add to this, they are launched in salvos, with drones, including jet powered Geran 5, various ballistic, hypersonic missiles including the Zircon, not to mention clouds of decoys and lots of EW. The Ukrainians routinely overclaim.
Kalibrs are a bit like Tomahawks but ever so much better.
So when you read a blog and you want to know about the SMO, look at the sources. Are they based on Ukrainian sources, OSINT and “war mappers”. Are there articles from the NYT or the Atlantic or FT or WaPo or Bloomberg and other propaganda rags?
This story has been doing the rounds, spread by Internet gossip of course. Notice keywords “swarm” , “ai-guided”. Google it and you will see multiple variations on the same story.
Russia has dismissed the strategic significance of the reported plan since Moscow Airport is particularly well defended and Russia has a better than 98% intercept rate in general, at the same time using the threat to justify escalated retaliatory missile and drone strikes against Ukraine. Zelensky blamed his rival Federov for the idea — and of course for the Russian attacks.
No matter. Don’t listen to me.
Go and read Will Shryver instead.
For the record, I like foxes. I shared a room with one once.
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