Recent content by Iskander

With a slight exaggeration, here are a few interesting conversations that took place between Zelenskyy, Putin, and Trump over the past nine months. Zelenskyy to Trump. Zelenskyy: Hello, Mr. Trump. Trump: Don't you have another suit? In three weeks. Zelenskyy: Hello, Mr. President. Trump: You...

What's so interesting about this? A completely uninteresting performance. The ladies throw off their black shawls, revealing evening gowns. There aren't even suicide belts. What kind of ladies would they be without Kalashnikov assault rifles! No, it's not interesting :)

When Ukrainian officials talk about a strike on Russian territory, they mean "old" Russian territories—internationally recognized ones. It appears Kyiv has admitted for the first time that it attacked Russia with the missiles you mentioned. This is a new reality that Putin will have to come to...

Peace has been established between Azerbaijan and Armenia. "Azerbaijan has lifted all restrictions on cargo transit to Armenia that have existed since the occupation, and the first such transit cargo was a shipment of Kazakh grain to Armenia. I believe this is a good indicator that peace...

Our lovers of all things Russian haven't disappeared. When the time comes, they quickly become active. In the very first days of the war in Ukraine, the head of the Russian community and member of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan, Mikhail Zabelin, loudly declared his full support for Russian...

JF-17 Thunder Block-III fighter jets belonging to the Pakistani Air Force, sent to participate in the joint exercise of the Azerbaijani and Pakistani Air Forces, completed a flight of more than 2,000 kilometers accompanied by an Il-78 tanker aircraft and arrived in Baku.

I'm usually very polite, especially when discussing things with the Administration :) However, let me point out that, in my opinion, Turkey has been playing in a different, higher league in recent years than it did in the last century.

What do you mean by competence? If you mean management skills, then yes, the opposition certainly has them. They held power for years in Ankara, Izmir, Istanbul, and many other places. And what about the outside world? Erdogan, no matter how controversial his internal policies, was the one under...

It's probably possible to calculate the radar cross section of this target with some uncertainty, if such data isn't available in open sources. It should be minimal. I wonder at what maximum range the F-16's radar can detect it, and at what range it can shoot it down.

A Ukrainian dog spotted and «greeted» a Russian FPV drone lying in wait :)

Putin wanted to revive the dead USSR and restore Russia's global influence. But the opposite happened: the Russian army in Ukraine once again demonstrated its astonishing ineffectiveness, and Russia lost the last vestiges of its influence even in neighboring countries—former Soviet republics. By...

Many countries, to avoid dependence on a single supplier who could, at the most critical moment, cut off arms and ammunition supplies under some trumped-up pretext, purchase them from various countries. But no country buys weapons from its potential enemy. None of us would even consider the...

Don't believe it. It's impossible. The Russians are too late. We would have bought these fighters 10-15 years ago, but not anymore. Spare parts for previously purchased military equipment and ammunition – yes. But nothing more. I've been watching the Russian Air Force since the first day of the...

Oh, the times! Oh, the morals! :)

Welcoming his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev at the peace summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, US President Donald Trump said of the Azerbaijani president: "He's a peacemaker," but "it's best not to quarrel with him!" The Armenians know what Trump is talking about :) Macron, following...