Genocide in Ukraine: 1932-1933
In the 1930’s the Soviet Communists starved to death over four million Ukrainians in a genocide. Given this history it is no surprise that the Ukrainians are resisting with such bravery.
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So Many People Tell Us to Fight, Fight, Fight for Ukraine Who Never Go to Ukraine Themselves to Fight
We noted, on Saturday, that the proposed peace plan is “a horrible deal for Ukraine, no doubt about that. But it does one thing: it stops the killing! It would be very dispassionate to suggest that Ukraine should keep on fighting, and its people keep on dying, if there were any reasonable prospect that they …
Do the Left Really Hate Donald Trump So Much That They’d Rather See More and More Blood Flowing Than the President Get Some Credit for Stopping a War?
Our good friends on the left — and I include the recent neoconservatives, who are not really conservative in very much among the left — are up in arms that the wicked, evil, hated President Donald Trump is trying to get at least a ceasefire, and possibly a lasting peace agreement, between Russia and Ukraine, …
The Moustache Wants More War!
If there’s anything consistent in this world today, it that former Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs John Bolton loves wars in which Other People have to fight. Mr Bolton, who chose to avoid service personally in the Vietnam War, a war he supported, wants the war between Russia and Ukraine to …
We Don’t Know How the Summit Turned Out, But Our Neocons Are Hoping For Failure!
Our good friends on the left are just up in arms over President Trump’s meeting with Soviet Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin in Alaska, ostensibly to discuss some way to end the Russo-Ukrainian War, which has been raging — well, maybe raging isn’t the right word; how about plodding along? — for 3½ years now. …
World War III Watch: It Could Still Happen if People Get Stupid.
It was only a couple of days ago that the democratic West was buoyed by Ukraine’s deep strikes into Russia. From The Washington Post: Ukraine’s drones disrupt Russia with airport closures, internet blackouts As Ukrainian drones strike deep into Russian territory, they are disrupting day-to-day life and reminding Russians that the war is not confined …
The Road to Kyiv: NATO, Kosovo, and the Long Shadow of a Broken Promise, Part 3
No one starts a war—or rather, no one in his senses ought to do so—without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it.”
~Carl von Clausewitz
Pax Trump; Give Marco Rubio a Nobel Prize for babysitting Zelensky
Oksana Markarova, Ukraine’s ambassador to the USA, had the worst moment of her life on February 28 when she watched her boss insult President Trump in the Oval Office
Facing The Facts In The Ukraine
America was willing to go to war with the Soviet during the Cuban Missile Crisis, a military incursion on our border. Is American willing to go to war with Russia over one of its neighbors?
Justifying A False Narrative Through A Bad Picture No, Ukraine is not the dam holding back Russia from trying to consume the rest of Europe
I was sent this picture a few days ago and asked if it reflected reality geographically or geopolitically. My answer was a simple one to start:
Volodymyr Zelenskyy: Banty Rooster
“I’m like a banty rooster in a big red rooster crowd. I’m puny, short and little, but I’m loud!” Personally, I can’t think of a better description of the banty Zelensky, leader of the Ukraine.
Zelensky and the Art of the Trumpenfreude
Trump has discombobulated the NATO blowhards just as he has done with Democrats. They tried to jail him, bankrupt him and even kill him and failed, failed, failed.
Ukraine Reality
It’s not only about peace, saving lives or mineral rights; it’s more about the quid pro quo conceived by Trump’s Art of the Deal – winning by advantageously creating confusion and turmoil for the opposition.
Trump may have killed NATO, too; Zelensky learned the hard way how useless the organization is
People overlook the fact that Trump’s original job at his family’s business was collecting rent. He never forgot how to evict someone.
REPRISE: Why conservatives oppose the war
In the wake of President Trump tossing Zelensky out of the Oval Office on Friday, I repost tonight this newsletter from January 31, 2023. I will allow readers to decide what has changed on the last 25 months. I mean, besides Trump’s second re-election.
Poking the Bear: How the West Orchestrated the Ukraine War and Got Exactly What It Wanted
Ah yes, the Ukraine war—the war that never had to happen, but was too profitable and geopolitically convenient for the power-hungry elites to resist.
It might be easier to support Ukraine if the proponents would actually tell us how Ukraine could win
Donald Trump campaigned on ending the war in Ukraine and many of his supporters, and voters — and yes, I voted for Mr Trump — did so based on that issue. My older daughter is in the United States Army Reserve, and the last thing I want is to see her called up to join the fight in Ukraine.
World War III Watch: Warmongers Gotta Warmonger!
It was just Thursday that we noted former National Security Advisor and former Ambassador John Bolton and his criticism of President Donald Trump’s phone call to Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, concerning Russia’s war in Ukraine. That seems to be a constant theme among the ‘neocons.’ They think it’s horrible, just horrible, that Ukraine might …
Ukraine’s Lost Weapons: A Disaster Even Worse Than Iran-Contra—Thanks, Biden!
Well, well, well—who could have guessed that dumping billions of dollars in military aid into a warzone with zero accountability would lead to, oh I don’t know, those weapons falling into the hands of criminals?
World War III Watch: Biden Sends More Aid, and Zelenskyy Wants Us to Send Ground Troops
We have said it before: it doesn’t matter how much money and military aid we send to Ukraine, they cannot defeat Russia absent the US and NATO sending actual ground troops to fight Russia, and fighter aircraft and pilots to gain air superiority. Now Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wants just that: U.S. announces more Ukraine …