Today the sun is shining. It rained on-and-off yesterday but no matter the weather Ukraine still suffers and Russia under Putin and his cabal still kills on its path to subjugation. Using all the old tyrannical methods of population clearing and brainwashing of children and secret police. And yes we know there are secret police…
Tag: Ukraine
Quiet Day
When the days pass with violence, stress, murder and crimes around the world – which are miscalled international politics – it is worthwhile on a rainy cooler day like today to just work quietly and let is slide. I can post a hundred times but I will never be able to debate online, never be…
What Is The Cost?
All over the world conflicts are being fought that cost money – fuelled, literally, by oil sales and other trade. But the cost to the human psyche, to individual soldiers suffering trauma, to brainwashed children with no other aim than to murder, to raped women, to destroyed communities, to broken alliances, the millions of hours…
Ukraine
There is no doubt now, if we didn’t know before, that Putin and his lackeys miss the old Soviet hegemony or as we like to call it, dictatorships, that gave them buffer zones of entire other countries against Germany invading again. They also entered an arms’ race with NATO selling an invasion by NATO to…
The Quality of Mercy
There is a cadence in war where each side wants absolute victory. In the past this had led to such things as the utter destruction of Hittite cities and the seeding of the land in and around Carthage with salt to the complete victory doctrine of World War 2 against the Nazis. Against this war…
People Posting
I read an American critic on linkedin that said Biden was not wise to allow Ukraine to shoot rockets into Russia and one of the reasons he made the decision was because he didn’t know Russia had long range missiles. I mention this as one of the absurd things one reads in posts – didn’t…
Tonight in the World
North Korean troops onto the Russian front against Ukraine. If any one thing marks the beginning of the end for the totalitarian regime in North Korea, it is this. Ukraine will not forget this betrayal by a country so far away. This is repayment of the Russian support for China/Korea in the Korean war. Meanwhile…
Perhaps More Thought
should be given to human beings in war. There are those who thrive on it and enjoy battle. The British army says after a conflict there is always a higher than usual retirement of personnel which has always been the case. Those who know what war looks like never want to experience it again. In…
Of No Use
The recent meeting and communique concerning the Ukraine/Russian offensive is of no use. Firstly everything said about territorial integrity the countries would have said for months to Russian ambassadors so nothing is new. Secondly it doesn’t mean anything because it could refer to whatever is left after a peace treaty is signed and Russia refuses…
Sentence structure matters
I don’t usually feel sorrow for religious leaders who mean one thing and say another because they are old or because religious people generally have a different way of thinking. The Pope is right to ask for warring parties to seek peace but his way of saying it was not helpful. You would never mention…