I'm not the biggest fan of the British blonde headed Prime Minister with the Moe Howard haircut, Boris Johnson. But he showed me a little something today, and he also got me thinking.
All of a sudden today, literally out...
Vietnam got it right the first time. Ideologically, it took China longer, but they got it right too. When the communist party took over the rest of Vietnam, they almost immediately realized something. They realized that while communism might...
Sweet Jesus. Somebody in Moscow needs to clamp Putin in irons, and drag him off to Lubyanka, because this is only going to get worse.
As I've written, and as you've seen in the media by now, we're in the...
You know, if I was Vladimir Putin, I'd execute a bunch of generals and aides, claim to the nation that they lied their asses off about how bad they were fucking up, and call it a day.
But he can't....
It has become more and more clear to me over the last week that Vladimir Putin can't win the war he started in Ukraine. Vladimir Putin is nothing more or less than a President Donald Trump without the guardrails.
Putin...
Tomorrow, in response to the war atrocities in Bucha, the US, presumably followed by the EU are announcing a new tranche of sanctions. And already the pissing and moaning is starting. What?! More sanctions? For Crissakes what's left to...
You gotta look down upon me Jesus, you gotta help me make a stand. You just gotta see me through another day  James Taylor  Fire and Rain
As heartbroken as I am over the images coming out of Bucha today...
You know, once upon a time long ago, say 35 days, it was so easy for Putin and his propaganda machine. You could invade, shoot anything that moved, and then blame it on the fog or war. And then, when he...
Let me qualify that. Give them what they want within reason. For instance, there's no good reason for the US or NATO to enforce a no fly zone. Russian forces are on the run, disorganized, demoralized, and most of the damage to Ukrainian...
The more you tighten your grip, the more systems will slip through your fingers  Princess Leia  Star Wars
Well, well, well. It's been exactly 5 weeks now since Putin rammed into Ukraine with the idea of supplicating it to his...
