Direct translation of the article. Edited. See the link for photos and maps by Oleg Airapetov
[Regnum] The first reaction of Emperor Nicholas II to the news of the outbreak of hostilities in the Far East was a desire to bring the war to a decisive end, the result of which was the complete neutralization of Japan, "so that she could no longer have either troops or navy." As options for the conditions of the future peace in St. Petersburg were discussed and the rejection of the treaty of 1875 (AKA The Treaty of St. Petersburg) on equal relations with Japan, and the annexation of the island of Tsushima. The international situation at the beginning of 1904 was generally favorable for Russia.
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Poor Korea, the Belgium of Asia, too often caught between two big warring nations. The rough translation from the Hangul/Korean is - when whales fight, shrimps backs are broken.
badanov has a gift for languages. He taught himself Russian for some of the wargames he wanted to play, as I recall, then Spanish so he could do the narco war in Mexico for us, and subsequently Ukrainian to cover that beat. The Regnum translation, y’all will note, is much too smooth and correct to be merely a machine translation.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Regnum] The first reaction of 
