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Operation “Stray Dog”. Chapter 8

The helicopter shook like an old Paykan on a mountain road. Takeshi-san, the pilot in the Hawaiian shirt with a kamikaze headband, held the cyclic with one hand and tried to open a jar of pickled ginger with an army knife with the other. “Turbulence, Alavi-san!” he yelled over the roar of the rotors and the Japanese pop blaring from the speakers. “The crabs are nervous! The ginger won’t open! Bad feng shui!”

Культура - 29.12.2025, 17:49 - Теги: Война, Литература, Политика, Сарказм, Технологии

Operation “Stray Dog”. Chapter 7

It was Takeshi-san. A legend of the East Asian shadow world. A man who in the 90s transported used right-hand drive Toyotas to Vladivostok, in the 2000s smuggled Iranian oil past sanctions via Malaysia, and now delivered Japanese porn and crabs to the North Korean elite. Alavi knew him from his days in SAVAK. Takeshi was the only Japanese man who could drink vodka with Russians, haggle with Persians, and lie to Koreans simultaneously, all while quoting Basho haikus

Культура - 29.12.2025, 12:04 - Теги: Война, Литература, Политика, Сарказм, Технологии

Operation “Stray Dog”. Chapter 6

In the “Atrium”—as the generals lovingly called the main control room with a screen the size of a football field—it smelled of expensive Arabica, furniture polish, and the cheap deodorant of the night shift. Duty Colonel General Ivashov (call sign “Concrete,” earned for his impenetrable facial expression) sat in a leather chair, melancholically chewing a cabbage pirozhok bought at the General Staff buffet

Культура - 29.12.2025, 7:07 - Теги: Война, Литература, Политика, Сарказм, Технологии

Operation “Stray Dog”. Chapter 5

The Assembly Hall smelled of expensive jasmine tea, lacquered wood, and a quiet, polite, yet deadly panic. A colossal digital map of the world spanned one entire wall. On it, China was vast, bright red, and pulsating; Taiwan was also red (though with light cross-hatching indicating “pending return”); and Russia was shaded in a pleasant beige color, referred to in secret party documents as “Zone of Prospective Resource Development” and colloquially as “Our Northern Warehouse”

Культура - 28.12.2025, 16:11 - Теги: Война, Литература, Политика, Сарказм, Технологии

Operation “Stray Dog”. Chapter 4

The secure comms room resembled a spaceship built from Soviet tank parts. The walls were padded with soundproofing panels the color of “bureaucratic depression,” and the air conditioner hummed with the strain of a dying elephant. On the desk sat a glass of tea with a lonely lemon floating in it like a sunken island. Amirkhan Mousavi was screaming into the receiver of a red phone so loudly that the bulletproof glass separating him from the operators fogged up

Культура - 28.12.2025, 11:11 - Теги: Война, Литература, Политика, Сарказм, Технологии

Operation “Stray Dog”. Chapter 3

Amirkhan Mousavi, Deputy Chief of Internal Security for Strategic Objects, sat in a chair that creaked with his every breath, hating Zoomers. More precisely, he hated the chasm of misunderstanding that lay between his generation, raised on war and prayers, and this generation, raised on VPNs and memes. Amirkhan examined the printout. It was a photo of a kitten. Ginger, fluffy, with saucer-eyes. The kitten was sitting on a rug. The rug was white and blue

Культура - 27.12.2025, 13:57 - Теги: Война, Литература, Политика, Сарказм, Технологии

Operation “Stray Dog”. Chapter 2

Asadollah Alavi, now known as “Comrade Lee,” advisor on strategic affairs, stood by the panoramic armored glass holding a cup of soju. He was seventy-two years old. He had survived the Revolution, the war with Iraq, thirty years of espionage, the American strike on Fordow, and an escape through China in a freight car loaded with garlic. He craved peace. Instead, he got North Korea. Beyond the glass stood the pride of the nation—two “Hwasong-21-Super-Turbo” missiles

Культура - 27.12.2025, 8:08 - Теги: Война, Литература, Политика, Сарказм, Технологии

Operation “Stray Dog”. Chapter 1

The snow in Cambridge fell so quietly it seemed you could hear the ice crystals grazing the black waters of the Charles River. It wasn’t the snow I remembered from childhood—not the prickly, vicious snow of the Zagros Mountains that sliced your face like the sand of the Dasht-e Kavir desert. This snow was soft, sterile, almost weightless, like a Democrat’s campaign promise. It swaddled the MIT campus in a white blanket of oblivion, erasing the corners of brutalist architecture

Культура - 26.12.2025, 14:41 - Теги: Война, Литература, Политика, Сарказм, Технологии

Когда Апокалипсис берет выходной

Завершающая повесть тетралогии, «Операция «Бродячий пёс», делает неожиданный пируэт: автор берёт своих героев — измученную физика Захру, её мужа-чекиста Амирхана, их дочерей и зловещего генерала Алави — и швыряет своих героев из декораций античной трагедии в декорации фарса а-ля «Доктор Стрейнджлав» или «Смерть Сталина», превращая монументальную драму в гомерически смешную и пугающе правдоподобную сатиру

Культура - 26.12.2025, 13:31 - Теги: Война, Кино, Литература, Наука, Образование, Политика, Религия, Сарказм, Технологии

Fordow. Postscript

On June 13, 2025, Israel attacked Iran. During Operation “People Like a Lion” (Mivtza Am KeLavi), strikes were carried out on more than 1,000 targets in Iran, primarily military infrastructure and nuclear facilities. On the night of June 22, 2025, the US Air Force and Navy conducted an attack codenamed “Midnight Hammer” against several nuclear sites in Iran. Among them were the Fordow uranium enrichment plant, the nuclear facility in Natanz, and the Isfahan Nuclear Technology Center

Культура - 26.12.2025, 8:08 - Теги: Война, Кино, Литература, Наука, Технологии

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