"There are decades where nothing happens, there are weeks where decades happen." -- Vladimir Lenin We are certainly living in one of those weeks where decades happen. Absolutely. When you have a week where, as we pointed out previously: Belarus...
Look, I'm right there with Volodymyr Zelensky, I get him. After all, he's trying to ward off a totally unprovoked assault on his country, and he is fighting for their very right of self existence. Memo to President Zelensky. I'm...
Let the good times roll When that rock starts rolling down hill, sometimes there's just no stopping it. When the actual history of Putin's invasion of Ukraine is written 10 or 20 years from now, long after I'm dirt surfing,...
What a difference a little thing like intelligent leadership makes, huh? For four long years Vlad the Imp ran around like a kid when the teacher leaves the room, doing whatever he wanted while his useful idiot looked on...
Come on gang, let's get into the wayback machine. Back in 1963, Soviet blowhard and all purpose douche nozzle Nikita Khrushchev decided he wanted an advantage over the United States, and so he sent nuclear tipped missiles to the friendly communist...
I do not write this blithely. I have spent days watching, looking at, evaluating, and analyzing everything I could find about not only the Russia-Ukraine conflict, but Vladimir Putin himself. And I have come to a conclusion. Ever since Trump...
I am not going to cut up old jackpots, but in several recent articles I have posited things based on my knowledge as a tactical simulation nerd, and I think that later reporting and events show I have at...
You know, being the spokesman for a country's military, or any other large government agency is really not much different than being a politician. You craft your words to shine and highlight your positions and accomplishments, hopefully without letting...
Those two simple words, collateral damage, seem to have been around us almost forever. And while they are sometimes in terms of a violent police operation, most often they are used in connection with war. Collateral damage basically means the loss...
God knows I'm as much in favor of the First Amendment as anyone in this world, but when that amendment allows a right-wing commentator to act as the agent in fact for a Russian dictator currently at war with...

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