Oh! My! God!How stupid can one human being possibly be? Especially one who rose to the presidency of an alleged superpower with nuclear weapons? Someone in the Kremlin with balls needs to hold an intervention with Vlad the Imp,...
Those of you who read me know that I've covered the Ukraine invasion pretty thoroughly, mostly because I have some background knowledge. And if you've read, you know that right from the first week of the war, there were...
What goes around comes around. Almost immediately following Trump's stolen election in 2016, political analysts concentrating on global democracy started worrying about his unlikely win fueling an already rising wave of far right, neo-fascist popularity throughout Europe, especially in...
No, I promise, I'm not chasing moonbeams, nor am I blowing smoke up your ass. But I have a somewhat unique combo going for me, I happen to know a little about war and strategy, and I'm stuck at...
God I love it when pure stupid is so purely rewarded. MSNBC just reported that both Finland and Swedem will join NATO sometime early this summer, likely within the next 90 days. And with that will make Russia's position...
This is a perfect example of why I take almost anything I get from a pundit, talking head, or media expert with a cow lick size grain of salt. About 7 weeks ago, when Putin invaded the Ukraine, most...
No, the title is not pure nationalism, it's not arrogance, and it isn't bluster. Instead, it is based on simple logic, simple math, and recent history., It breaks down into three basic buckets, financing, technology, and experience. Let's break...
Well, it's official. Early this afternoon PDT, the Russian Military confirmed that their Black Sea flagship, the Moskva, had sunk. Being Russians, they started with a lie, and they ended with a lie. Yesterday, they announced that the ship hadn't been struck,...
Oh. My. God. As I've grown older, I have found that I suffer fools far less gladly then I did when I had more patience. But at the same time, nothing pleases me more in my dotage than seeing...
This just broke less than an hour ago on Rachel Maddow's show, and while there are discrepancies as to the reason for the event, both sides apparently agree that the event happened. The Ukraine government is claiming that they fired...

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